MONTREAL—Former Parti Québécois cabinet minister Martine Ouellet announced Friday she is adding her name to the list of candidates seeking the party’s permanent leadership. Martine Ouellet speaks to supporters in Montreal on Friday, where she announced her intention to run for the leadership of the Parti Québécois. Ouellet said she is running to take the province’s independence movement “from words into actions.”“The time for waiting is over,” she told supporters in Montreal. “It’s been 20 years that we’ve been waiting, and at this pace if we don’t give a serious push to the independence movement we will wait a long time as spectators of our future.”She joins Alexandre Cloutier, Veronique Hivon and Jean-François Lisée in the race to succeed Pierre Karl Péladeau at the party’s helm.

Source: thestar May 27, 2016 11:22 UTC