“With Martine Ouellet, things will be very clear,” Beaulieu said at the launch. Asked later if a vote for PQ government under her leadership would be a vote for independence, Ouellet said, “It’s clear. PQ riding presidents are meeting Sunday in Drummondville to rubber stamp the rules of the leadership race. A Ouellet PQ government would propose a referendum and make Quebec a country in the first mandate after its election, she said. Pierre Karl Péladeau would have set in motion a referendum on Quebec independence within a first mandate of a Parti Québécois government, leadership candidate Martine Ouellet said Friday kicking off her own campaign.

Source: National Post May 27, 2016 21:11 UTC