SHERBROOKE - Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon rallied his party faithful Sunday, less than a year from the next provincial election and with a number of important tests to come before then.

“We have the right, but above all, we have the duty to build a different Quebec than the Quebec of decline,” St-Pierre Plamondon told several hundred gathered in Sherbrooke, Que.

“The Quebec of decline that has been imposed on us by the federal government, the CAQ (Coalition Avenir Quebec), and the Quebec Liberal party for several years now.”

St-Pierre Plamondon insists that he will hold a sovereignty referendum during his first term if elected to government, even though a majority of Quebecers are opposed to independence.

On Saturday, the PQ leader announced that an independent Quebe

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