Coalition Avenir Québec

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The Coalition Avenir Québec (Canadian French: [kɔalisjɔ̃ avniʁ kebɛk], lit. 'Future Quebec Coalition', CAQ) is a Quebec nationalist, autonomist, secularist and conservative provincial political party in Quebec. The party was founded by former Parti Québécois (PQ) cabinet minister, François Legault, and businessman Charles Sirois in 2011. Not long after its formation, the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) merged into the CAQ. Party membership includes both Quebec nationalists and federalists. The party has stated that it will never endorse a referendum on sovereignty; it also does not explicitly support Quebec independence, but will seek more autonomy within Canada if necessary. In 2018, the CAQ won a majority of seats in the National Assembly, allowing it to form a government for the first time under the leadership of Legault. It increased its majority in the 2022 election. The Legault government passed Bill 21 on secularism, strengthened French-language laws through Bill 96, reduced...

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