Bloc Québécois Leader Martine Ouellet is not budging from her insistence on promoting sovereignty at every turn, despite it having cost her the support of most of her caucus and a long list of former MPs. "How can MPs tell me that they think as a chief of the Bloc Québécois, which is an independentist party, I talk too much about independence. I don't understand," Ouellet said at a late afternoon news conference, where she vowed to stay on as leader. Luc Thériault, MP for Montcalm, speaking for the group of seven Bloc MPs who left caucus earlier this week, protested Martine Ouellet's leadership style. They believe sovereignty promotion is best handled by the Parti Québécois, a party that Ouellet has twice campaigned to lead, both times unsuccessfully.

Source: CBC News March 03, 2018 15:57 UTC