Separatist Leader Says an Independent Quebec Would Join NATO

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon

Photographer: Andrej Ivanov/Bloomberg

The head of the leading separatist party in Quebec said he’s convinced the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would welcome it as a member if it broke away from Canada.

“An independent Quebec will be a member of NATO,” Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, the leader of the Parti Québécois, said during a speech in Montreal that focused on international relations.