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A new café in Montreal is offering its patrons a taste of Quebec independence

On Friday, Club Pays opened on Montreal's Plaza St-Hubert, becoming Quebec's first sovereigntist-themed coffee shop run by the non-partisan group OUI Quebec.
Communications lead Alex Valiquette launched the concept after a student exchange last year in Spain, where he visited bars and cafés supporting Catalonian independence.
While recent polls show only 30 per cent of Quebecers would vote yes in a referendum, Camille Goyette-Gingras, president of OUI Quebec, identified a 'sovereigntist third wave' among youth with meme pages gathering more than 100,000 followers.
A political science professor at Université Laval notes grassroots spaces like this can counter polarization by providing forums for debating independence among a generation unfamiliar with past sovereignty campaigns.
The shop hosts events and serves as a working space to discuss Quebec culture and independence. Goyette-Gingras stated the venue aims to repair trust and move away from social divides caused by partisan politics.

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