Andrée Laforest

Municipal leaders across Quebec are looking for ways to get young people, especially women, to run for local office in next year's elections, but that is a tall order given the well-documented incidents of harassment and intimidation faced by elected officials in the province.

Lamenting the "fly in and fly out" culture of workers in Quebec's northern communities, Premier François Legault said on Monday, August 16, 2021, his government would build more affordable housing in the north to entice families to settle.