Yves-Francois Blanchet

Premier Jason Kenney says Alberta and the federal government will cost share a $42-million program to help farmers and ranchers deal with a backlog of cattle waiting to be processed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“If they were attempting to create a green state in Western Canada, I might be tempted to help them,” Yves-François Blanchet said Wednesday. “If they are trying to create an oil state in Western Canada, they cannot expect any help from us.”

The Bloc victory stopped the Conservative Party’s hope of forming government.

Scheer comes off as out of touch; Trudeau gives oxygen to anti-immigration reforms; Singh remains sturdy; May hard to decipher.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau dismissed any notion that national unity is under threat on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, as he and other national leaders made efforts to beat back growing support for the Bloc Quebecois.

Bernier's year-old People’s Party of Canada calls for "ending official multiculturalism" and slashing the number of immigrants allowed into the country. Its platform also denies the science of climate change. 

Both the Liberal and Conservative leaders faced attacks on Thursday, October 3, 2019, that target the cores of their characters, as each accused the other of trying to distract voters from his record.

It was the first time Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau faced his rivals directly in this federal election campaign, but Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer spent a great deal of time in the hot seat during the first French-language debate.

Four federal leaders will take the stage in Montreal on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, for the first debate to feature Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

Five party leaders have confirmed they will participate in two major televised election debates in October, the media group producing the events announced on Tuesday, August 20, 2019.

The Bloc Quebecois has a new leader.

It appears likely that Yves-Francois Blanchet, a former Parti Quebecois cabinet minister, will become the next leader of the Bloc Quebecois.

Federal health transfers to the provinces are the most urgent political issue facing the country, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, as he called on the prime minister to convene a health summit with the premiers as soon as possible.

The Bloc Quebecois says it plans to leverage its 32 members to pressure the Liberal minority government into making concessions that benefit Quebec, but party leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is keeping his strategy secret for now.

Canadians may not be thrilled with the outcome of last week's federal election but a new poll suggests few are angry that it produced an almost identical result to the 2019 nation-wide vote.