Canadian Québec voters elected a separatist political party to power for the first time in more than 10 years. This will further strain the province's relationship with the federal government led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, and may eventually hold a referendum on Quebec's independence from Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced shortly before 8:40 p.m. on Monday night, Montreal time, that the Québec People's Party won the provincial election. It is uncertain whether the Québecois People's Party can win a majority of 127 seats in the provincial assembly, so it can dominate the agenda without the support of smaller parties. The 49-year-old Québecois Party leader Paul Saint-Pierre-Pramont, will be the new governor of this French-speaking province. He promised that an independence referendum would be initiated during the first four-year term, but not before US President Trump leaves office. In a recent televised debate, Pramondon said, “We have just experienced an unprecedented situation with the US. The actions of the Trump administration are unacceptable, and the current environment is not suitable for thinking calmly about our future.” This will be the third independence referendum in Québec's history. In the last referendum in 1995, the pro-sovereignty vote was only over 1 percentage point short of losing.

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