Paul St-Pierre Plamondon: “The Parti Québécois will not hold a referendum as long as U.S. President Donald Trump remains in power.”

We deserve it just as much as all other peoples who have their own country and democracy," he told a crowd at the PQ headquarters in Montreal.

We’ve got time and we’ve got plenty of urgencies and problems to solve.

It is a matter of justice and equity, but it is also a matter of survival.

It also gives us the obligation to remain mobilized for an election campaign — not in the short term, but eventually.