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FIRST READING: Parti Québécois leader alleges a vast, secret, federal conspiracy to stop him

He offered no evidence for the claim, and said he didn't intend to

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FIRST READING: Parti Québécois leader alleges a vast, secret, federal conspiracy to stop him Back to video

The leader of the Parti Québécois, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, has alleged a vast, Ottawa-led conspiracy to undermine his separatist ambitions.

And although he stated he couldn’t provide any evidence to this effect, the view was quickly endorsed by one of his political rivals.

In a Tuesday press conference, St-Pierre Plamondon displayed his smartphone to reporters and declared in French that “if there is one consistency in the history of the Parti Québécois, it’s that the leader and influential elected members are spied on.”

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He added that such surveillance was “ridiculously easy” in the age of smartphones, as opposed to prior eras in which a spy would have to “tape a recording device to their stomach.”

“We know our history, so we know that every decade, the Government of Canada has taken ethically and legally questionable........

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