The Parti Québécois was founded on October 11, 1968 by a merger with the communist RIN, which was dissolved to allow its members to join discreetly
Mr. Gérard Michaud, in a letter to the French daily newspaper La Presse on March 8, 1983 in its “Tribune Libre” column, pointed out that the PQ was in fact the ‘successor’ party to the RIN, because the new PQ obtained the vast majority of its membership from the dissolution of the RIN. So, again, what we are looking at with the PQ is a communist party, not a sovereignist party. The Rassemblement pour l’indépendance nationale (RIN) was a Quebec…