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Snap Quebec National Assembly election backfires as Parti Quebecois candidate revives call for secession from Canada

Premier Pauline Marois faces music after fellow Parti Quebecois candidate uses snap election over religious headwear to call for province to leave Canada

Quebec National Assembly elections yesterday revived the secession debate.

Premier Pauline Marois called the snap vote last month in a bid to secure a Parti Quebecois (PQ) majority in order to pass a controversial charter which would ban public-sector workers from wearing religious headgear.

But the strategy backfired early in the campaign when one PQ candidate made a declaration of his commitment to “make Quebec a country.”

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