Lucien Bouchard’s speech of this past February 16th, in which he announced that he no longer expects to see a sovereign Quebec in his lifetime, shook the Quebec political world. The leading sovereigntist of his generation, the near victor of the 1995 referendum, the last leader of the Parti Québécois to win an election, had effectively declared that the dream of Quebec independence was…
Jean-François Simard
Jean-François Simard is a professor of social sciences and holds the Senghor Chair in Francophone Studies at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. He is a former minister in the Parti Québécois government of Bernard Landry.