Quebecor Inc. and Pierre Karl Peladeau

controlling shareholder: The controlling shareholder of Quebecor Inc. has the economic gravitas after a lengthy career with the media conglomerate, which owns the province largest private TV network, the flagship Le Journal de Montreal newspaper and the highly lucrative Videotron cable company. Quebec Opposition Leader Pierre Karl Peladeau questions the government, according to Huffington Post Canada. It is in other areas such as education and health where Peladeau, 54, will have to show Quebecers he truly cares at a time when both sectors are financially strapped and constantly under the threat of government cutbacks. "I don't claim to know everything," Peladeau told a news conference earlier this month. "Quite the opposite even. While he consolidates that leadership over the next 12 months, Peladeau will no doubt be looking further down the road to the general election scheduled for the fall of 2018. So I will have the opportunity in the weeks and months ahead, with my colleagues obviously, to hone my knowledge of all the issues of concern to us." Peladeau, who was elected leader in May, has had a few bumps since entering the job, such as when he suggested he was open to partitioning a sovereign Quebec in order to recognize First Nations' claims to territory. Peladeau released a statement "clarifying" his comments a few days later. "It obvious that I don't have the political experience of many of the members of the legislature," he told reporters. "I entered politics 18 months ago and became PQ leader six months ago, so I still have things to learn." Peladeau must avoid these kinds of blunders going forward, says Eric Montigny, research chair in democracy and parliamentary institutions at Universite Laval. "He needs to assert himself as the official opposition, as a premier-in-waiting," Montigny said in an interview. "He cannot allow himself to continue to have to apologize for his comments." Peladeau says he will reach out to anglophones and cultural minorities in 2016 while also trying to unite the province sovereigntist forces. "I entered politics 18 months ago and became PQ leader six months ago, so I still have things to learn." The PQ is short on specifics, however, Montigny says. "We felt there was a willingness to extend a hand ," he said. "But there has to be more than just words. That is a major no-no among sovereigntists, who see the indivisibility of the province as sacrosanct. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.