It's more nuanced than that. The current government, which may have been voted out by the time you read this, is conservative and not separatist, but has governed extremely badly. More than $1 billion spent on a website to renew driver's licenses. Laws that are clearly designed to limit the visibility and public participation of muslims.

The Liberals were the government before that, and even for Quebec they were famously corrupt.

The Parti Quebecois, although they are separatists, has made real differences in the social fabric of the province:

• $5 daycare started almost 30 years ago
• banned corporate and union donations to provincial political parties
• pharmacare program since 1997 covering most prescription medications
• legislation to protect farmland from urban sprawl

So what does that leave us? The Canadian Party of Quebec that is even more right wing than the conservatives? Québec Solidaire, who are also separatist?

New Brunswick still has a lot of French speakers, the federal government isn’t going to kill their electoral chances to spite Quebec.