The parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire (QS), Ruba Ghazal, is hoping to have her pro-worker stance endorsed by her members at the party’s National Council meeting this weekend.

“We need to prioritise and then have a major element and that is workers. That doesn’t mean we’re putting everything else aside, far from it,” she explained in an interview with The Canadian Press.

She insists that this is not a vote of confidence in her leadership. “It’s the members who decide. So we shouldn’t assume anything, but I don’t have that fear,” says Ghazal.

After the resignation of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois as party spokesperson and a disastrous score in the Terrebonne by-election last March, Ghazal said that QS needed to rediscover its “North Star.”

Since then, she has been trying to focus more on

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