Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet received overwhelming support from his party members in a vote of confidence Saturday, with 97.25 per cent voting in favour.
“The vote of confidence is not about me, it’s about all of us,” he said at the party’s annual convention in Drummondville, Que., about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
“The vote of confidence, because it has the word ‘confidence,’ must be about Quebec … about the responsibility we have to our citizens to become a country.”
Blanchet reiterated that the party’s main goal is Quebec sovereignty, and mentioned its long-standing collaboration between the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ).
He described his party as
