Montrealers gathered at Carré Saint-Louis on Saturday for the March to Independence, hosted by Oui Québec and the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal.

The event marked 30 years since the 1995 Quebec referendum and aimed to highlight a renewed wave of support for Quebec’s sovereigntist movement.

“So there’s two big changes of the independence movement,” said Camille Goyette Gingras, president of Oui Québec. “The first one, first and foremost, of course, is that the movement is now lead by a new generation, by youth. The second thing is it’s a citizen movement. Whereas in 1995, it was really more around political parties. Now we really feel that it’s profoundly, the initiative comes from citizens.”

“It feels really exciting,” said demonstrator Adam Levis-Paquette. “I wasn’t expecting

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