Philip Authier

Premier François Legault says he's can't understand why the Bloc Québécois isn't doing more to help Quebec.

"It was not very deft," says Jean-François Roberge after a week of political tension between Ottawa and Quebec over temporary immigration.

Rizqy was considered a potential candidate for leadership of the Quebec Liberals, but says her decision is "final and without appeal."

Marwah Rizqy's plan to leave politics has reopened the debate about whether more can be done to help MNAs.

"We're not talking about police going in to remove families," says Quebec immigration minister.

Despite widespread criticism, the premier showed no signs Tuesday of backing down on his views that asylum seekers could be forced to move to other provinces.

New York tried it in 2023, offering asylum seekers bus tickets to leave the city. On Wednesday, there was a report Quebec examined a similar strategy.

After increasing the tuition for out-of-province students last fall, the Coalition Avenir Québec government Thursday will table a bill to cut down on students from other countries.

The Parti Québécois's Year 1 budget rests on "unrealistic premises and regrettable omissions," according to three economists with federalist roots and the Quebec Liberal Party's André Pratte.

"We are seeing a political exercise that closely resembles the federalist fear campaigns of the 1980 and 1995 referendums," Paul St-Pierre Plamondon writes