Minority rights
Protect English-speaking, allophone, visible minority, and Indigenous communities through clear constitutional commitments.
Canadian Party of Quebec
Democracy without division
CaPQ speaks for Quebecers who believe rights are not negotiable, bilingualism is an asset, and public life should be grounded in fairness, dignity, and democratic accountability.
Current work
- Published policyPreliminary Costed Fiscal Framework: Four-Year Personal & Corporate Tax ReformWORKING DOCUMENT - AUGUST 2026
- Latest statementCaPQ unveils policy on combatting anti-SemitismSep 26, 2026
- Latest mediaAntisemitism, minority rights and separatism are the issues on Jewish voters’ minds in the Quebec electionSep 24, 2026
- Candidate profileDanilo VelasquezHull
Who we are
What we stand for
A modern federalist platform rooted in constitutional rights, minority protections, and public institutions that serve every Quebecer.
Indigenous rights
Advance reconciliation through respect, partnership, and fair treatment before the law.
Linguistic rights
Defend official language equality and reject coercive language policy.
Religious freedom
Protect civil liberties and individual conscience in public life.
Bilingualism
Treat French and English as shared civic assets and practical tools for opportunity.
National unity
Build a confident Quebec within a united Canada.
Leader and Co-Founder
Joseph Cianflone
A Harvard and Oxford graduate with a record of leadership in global health technology, Joseph Cianflone brings a rights-based, solutions-driven approach to Quebec politics.
Meet the leaderCandidates
Our candidates
Meet the people ready to represent their communities at the National Assembly.
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Jacques-Cartier
Yesica Ochoa
More than 25 years ago, Yesica Ochoa moved from Mexico to Quebec after earning her law degree from Universidad Anáhuac. Since then, she has built her life in Quebec, become a Canadian citizen, and developed a career that spans entrepreneurship, real estate, communications, the arts, and community service. As an entrepreneur and real estate owner, Yesica has managed rental properties and worked directly with tenants, contractors, insurers, financial institutions, and government agencies. These experiences have given her practical insight into the challenges of housing, small business, and navigating public systems. Believing that culture brings people together, Yesica co-founded Fondation Frères Unis par le Monde and serves as its President. Through the foundation, she produced Weekends du Monde – Mexico in collaboration with Parc Jean-Drapeau, showcasing Mexican culture as part of one of Montreal's largest multicultural festivals. A passionate communicator, Yesica created and hosted her online program Y porque no? Con Yesica O and volunteered as a radio host with Mike FM, and Radio Centre-Ville. She has also appeared as a guest on radio programs in Argentina, Costa Rica, Germany, and other countries. Outside of public life, Yesica is also a singer, songwriter, and actress. She believes that the arts, culture, and open dialogue help strengthen communities and bring people together. Fluent in French, English, and Spanish, with conversational Italian, Yesica is running to represent the people of Quebec with integrity, practical experience, and a commitment to responsible, transparent government.
Laurier-Dorion
Jenifer Gomes
Jenifer Gomes is a Montreal-based community leader, healthcare professional, entrepreneur, and public-service advocate committed to building stronger, more inclusive, and better-connected communities. Her approach to leadership is rooted in a simple principle: listen to people, understand their concerns, bring communities together, and turn ideas into action. With experience spanning political engagement, electoral operations, healthcare, community organizing, administration, fundraising, public relations, and multicultural community development, Jenifer brings a practical and people-centred perspective to public service. Currently serving as a Director-at-Large of the Pierrefonds—Dollard Federal Liberal Association, Jenifer has been actively involved in political and electoral work, including campaign operations at the municipal level. These experiences have strengthened her understanding of grassroots organizing, voter engagement, teamwork, campaign coordination, and the importance of being present in the community. Jenifer's commitment to community service extends well beyond politics. Through her involvement with the Bangladesh Society of Montreal, she has helped organize cultural and community programs, coordinate fundraising and sponsorship initiatives, develop partnerships, and promote greater understanding, inclusion, and unity among diverse communities. Her professional experience in healthcare at the McGill University Health Centre has further shaped her approach to leadership. Working in a healthcare environment has reinforced the importance of compassion, responsibility, communication, teamwork, confidentiality, and service—values that she believes are equally important in public life. As a Returning Officer with Elections Canada, Jenifer has also contributed directly to Canada's democratic process. Her experience in electoral administration, polling operations, staffing, compliance, and election-day logistics has given her a practical understanding of how democracy works on the ground and why every vote, every community, and every voice matters. Jenifer is particularly passionate about community empowerment, civic participation, diversity and inclusion, women's leadership, and meaningful representation. She believes communities are strongest when people from different backgrounds have the opportunity to participate, contribute, and be heard. Her ability to communicate in French, English, Bengali, Urdu, and Hindi allows her to connect with people across Montreal's diverse communities and helps her build bridges across linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Jenifer represents a new generation of community-focused leadership—one grounded not only in ambition, but in service, integrity, inclusion, and action. Her message is simple: leadership begins with listening, grows through community, and is measured by the difference we make together.
Chomedey
Jonathan Gray
Jonathan has been involved with the Canadian Party of Quebec since 2022. In the previous provincial election, he ran in the riding of Robert-Baldwin in the West Island, where he garnered more than 4% of the vote with a new party that was officially registered only three months before the election. This was a strong indication that voters who knew the party wanted fresh and honest leadership. Jonathan has a background in Environmental Sciences and a strong affinity for responsible environmental protections while also recognizing the need for economic development. He is also concerned with the state of education in Quebec, including laws that disadvantage the English school system. The condition of schools and the curriculum taught are topics of great concern to him. Jonathan is currently employed as a high school teacher of science and technology in Chomedey, Laval. He also manages a local green club and community garden with more than 25 active residents and students. Jonathan has sat on multiple boards, including the Laval Junior’s School Board and teacher councils, and currently serves as a sector director with the Laval Teachers’ Union. He is running as a candidate in the riding of Chomedey and believes voters should choose the honest and fair leadership offered by the Canadian Party of Quebec.
Westmount-Saint-Louis
Maryam Kamali Nezhad
Candidate for the Canadian Party of Quebec in Westmount–Saint-Louis For Maryam Kamali Nezhad, public service means listening to citizens, defending their rights, and putting her experience to work in pursuit of practical solutions. Now a resident of Westmount, Maryam is an engineer, manager, entrepreneur, and former municipal councillor. A wife and mother, she has nearly 30 years of professional experience in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Specializing in hydraulics and hydrology, she holds a PhD from the Institut polytechnique de Grenoble in France. She also completed postdoctoral research at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique and taught civil and mining engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. Since 2009, Maryam has worked at Hydro-Québec in hydroelectric generation planning and water resource management. Her work requires rigour, sound judgment, strong analytical skills, and long-term vision, particularly when balancing energy needs, infrastructure safety, and environmental protection. Alongside her professional career, she co-manages a Quebec company specializing in structural systems, industrial equipment, and storage solutions. This experience has given her a direct understanding of the realities faced by entrepreneurs, employers, and workers: rising costs, excessive red tape, high taxes, labour shortages, and difficulties accessing financing. Maryam believes Quebec has remarkable talent, abundant resources, and dynamic entrepreneurs, but that its economic potential is too often held back by bureaucracy, political uncertainty, and identity-based debates that distract from the province’s real priorities. She wants a Quebec that is more productive, more competitive, and more open to investment, trade within Canada, and international markets. From 2021 to 2025, Maryam served as a municipal councillor for the Town of Mount Royal. In that role, she defended transparency, fiscal responsibility, and meaningful public consultation. In 2025, she ran for mayor to promote a more accountable form of government that was closer to the people. This experience taught her that an elected representative must be willing to ask difficult questions, demand accountability, and remain true to her principles. A Canadian of Iranian origin, Maryam studied and worked in several countries before choosing Quebec and Canada as the place to build her life and raise her son. Her journey has taught her the value of democracy, individual freedom, the rule of law, equal opportunity, and political stability. Maryam is a committed federalist. She believes Quebec’s future lies within a strong and united Canada. She opposes Quebec sovereignty, as well as nationalist and identity-based policies that divide citizens, weaken their rights, and undermine Quebec’s economic stability. For Maryam, being both Quebecer and Canadian is not a contradiction. It is possible to take pride in Quebec culture, protect and promote the French language, and at the same time remain fully committed to Canada and its institutions. Able to communicate in both French and English, Maryam considers knowledge of both languages to be a cultural, social, and economic strength. She believes every citizen should be able to live, work, study, access government services, and feel fully at home in Quebec, regardless of which official language they speak. She supports promoting French through culture, education, economic opportunity, and inclusion—not by reducing the rights of another community. She believes in protecting the rights of Quebec’s English-speaking community, respecting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and ensuring equality for all citizens. Maryam is running as the Canadian Party of Quebec candidate in Westmount–Saint-Louis because she shares its core principles: Canadian unity, bilingualism, the rule of law, individual freedom, and democracy without division. She wants the government to refocus on the issues that truly affect people’s daily lives: the cost of living, the economy, access to health care, housing, taxation, infrastructure, and the responsible management of public funds. Maryam approaches these challenges with the rigour of an engineer, the experience of a manager, the understanding of an entrepreneur, and the listening skills she has developed through public service. Her commitment is clear: to defend the rights of Quebecers, contribute to their prosperity, and help build a bilingual, confident, and strong Quebec within a united Canada.
Mirabel
Zenzi Wolker
Zenzi (Kreszenztia Wolker) was born two days after Christmas in 1994 to a single mom in a multilingual Quebec family. Raised on the mountain of the mohawk territory of Kanesatake immersed in first nations culture. With a collection of half and step siblings she grew up openly queer enjoying the support of their mother and family. Being bullied made the struggle through school harder in addition to learning disorders in an already broken and stretched education system. A loyal agriculturalist they also learned about and worked with children specializing in kids with physical and mental limitations and disabilities occasionally needing to support herself with part-time customer service and factory work. When the family fell into the need Zenzi shifted her career to at home senior palliative care prioritizing a multi-generational home life and helping others stay in their homes. They now focus on being a constantly evolving and learning parent, a reliable member of their community, bettering themself, and working in at home palliative care, and agriculture. Zenzi hopes to bring understanding and representation to many underrepresented ways of life, communities, cultures, and identities while defending rights to good education, health care, housing, nutrition, religion / spiritual expression, and kindness.
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Mont-Royal-Outremont
Sonia Moscote
Originally from Colombia and living in Canada for the past 22 years, Sonia Moscote brings extensive experience in politics, public administration, community development, and civic engagement. Her work in both Colombia and Quebec reflects a longstanding commitment to democracy, social equity, and the protection of individual rights. Before immigrating to Canada, Sonia served for several years in Colombia as a public servant, elected official, and community advocate. She worked with government agencies and non-governmental organizations, developing significant expertise in local development, women's empowerment, and supporting members of visible minority communities. Sonia's educational background is equally diverse. She studied Law at Externado University of Colombia and Community Development Management at the University of Havana in Cuba. In Quebec, she earned Attestations of Collegial Studies in Immigration Consulting and Event Planning and Management from LaSalle College, as well as a Specialized Graduate Diploma in Public Administration. She also participated in the School of Women and Democracy organized by Women and Democracy, including the conference "Feminism and Democratic Institutions." Since settling in Quebec, Sonia has continued her professional and community involvement through a variety of leadership roles. She has served as an advisor in the Duberger-Les Saules sector and as Executive Director of Carrefour CEIBA-Québec, the Inter-American Association of Jurists, and Women and Democracy. Her work within Quebec's health and social services network, including at the CIUSSS, has enabled her to work directly with diverse communities and build strong partnerships across the sector. For more than nine years, Sonia has dedicated her experience to local development, immigrant integration, and social inclusion. Her commitment to advancing the rights of women, children, and vulnerable individuals has earned her recognized expertise in community mobilization, communications, organizational leadership, and the coordination of projects and events. Today, Sonia seeks to continue this work through provincial politics as a candidate for the Canadian Party of Quebec. She believes that a democratic society must protect fundamental rights, promote fairness and equal opportunity, and ensure that every citizen has the ability to participate fully in public life. Sonia is particularly concerned about the housing crisis affecting her riding and is committed to helping develop practical, sustainable, and collaborative solutions that allow all residents to live with dignity, security, and stability. A proud Quebecer by choice and deeply committed to democratic values, Sonia believes bilingualism is a strength for Quebec rather than a threat to the French language. She is determined to be a strong voice for fundamental rights, inclusion, dignity, and democratic accountability while working to help build an open, bilingual, and inclusive Quebec within a strong and united Canada.
Policy
Our policies
Read the policy positions CaPQ has published.
Québec Housing Growth Act
A technical economic, affordability and fiscal model for increasing housing supply, with Class 4D property-tax incentives and a Municipal Housing Growth Dividend.
Read policyTrade Economics: Quantified Impacts
The technical and statistical annex to the trade and competitiveness policy: internal trade, Canada–U.S. relations and export diversification, with transparent assumptions and source-by-source estimates.
Read policyCombating Antisemitism in Quebec
A provincial strategy for education, community safety, consistent enforcement and public accountability.
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