PQ floats the idea of an independence referendum in a new policy paper

QUEBEC — If elected in the 2022 general election, a Parti Québécois government would hold a sovereignty referendum during its first mandate in office, a new policy paper says.And the PQ proposes to use all the state mechanisms at its disposal to prepare Quebec for the vote. It would be a third attempt by the PQ to make Quebec into a country. The first two attempts, in 1980 and 1995, failed.The referendum is included in a proposed party program made public Saturday at a virtu