Editing Parti Québécois (section)

==Relationship with the Bloc Québécois==
The [[Bloc Québécois]] (BQ) is a [[List of federal political parties in Canada|federal political party]] founded in 1990 by former Progressive Conservative MP [[Lucien Bouchard]]. It has traditionally had close ties to the Parti Québécois and shares its principal objective of [[sovereignty]]. The two parties have frequently shared political candidates, and have supported each other during election campaigns. The two parties have a similar membership and voter base. Prominent members of either party often attend and speak at both organizations' public events. [[Gilles Duceppe]], the former Bloc leader, is also the son of [[Jean Duceppe]], a Quebec actor who helped found the PQ after having been a founding member of the [[New Democratic Party]].

In June 2014, [[Mario Beaulieu (politician)|Mario Beaulieu]], a former PQ riding president and Bloc candidate, was elected leader of the Bloc Québécois.  Notwithstanding his previous ties to both parties, Beaulieu has been critical of what he sees as a too timid approach to sovereignty by both the Bloc and PQ.  Beaulieu's election as Bloc leader was more warmly received by the PQ's rival party, [[Option nationale]], than by the PQ.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Don|first1=Macpherson|title=Mario Beaulieu's victory shows the Bloc's irrelevance|url=https://montrealgazette.com/news/Macpherson+Mario+Beaulieu+victory+shows+Bloc+irrelevance/9944189/story.html|work=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714181254/http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Macpherson+Mario+Beaulieu+victory+shows+Bloc+irrelevance/9944189/story.html|archive-date=14 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Les députés bloquistes lancent un appel au calme|url=http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/17/bloc-quebecois-mario-beaulieu-appel-au-calme-des-deputes_n_5502216.html|access-date=3 July 2014|work=[[Huffington Post]]|date=16 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Gagnon|first1=Lysiane|title=Will the Bloc Self-Destruct?|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/will-the-bloc-self-destruct/article19215051/#dashboard/follows/|access-date=3 July 2014|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=18 June 2014}}</ref>

===Ties to far right groups===
In 2018, the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'' reported on an investigation into two closed Facebook groups, whose stated aim is to bolster the PQ, by anti-racist activist Jeff Ray. Ray found that many participants, while supporters of the PQ, were also members of far-right groups like [[Storm Alliance]]. This included "grassroots activists to aspiring candidates to officials on the executive council" on the PQ side, and "key personalities of the far right" on the other.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Solyom |first1=Catherine |title=Blurring the lines between Quebec's far right and political mainstream on Facebook |url=https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/blurring-the-lines-between-quebecs-far-right-and-political-mainstream-on-facebook/ |access-date=8 May 2020 |agency=[[Montreal Gazette]] |date=5 June 2018}}</ref>