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Will the Bloc Québécois change its name and logo with less than a year before the federal election? That’s one of the questions the party’s 15,000 members will have to consider over the next few months.

The party has launched a vast program to renew itself in the wake of the crisis that essentially paralyzed it for the past year. Everything is on the table — the party’s name, its image, its platform and its rules and regulations.

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Interim leader Mario Beaulieu and party president Yves Perron announced the program on Monday, accompanied by MPs Xavier Barsalou-Duval and Monique Pauzé as well as youth wing leader Camille Goyette-Gingras.

The youth wing suggested a re-foundation of the party several months ago as a means of healing the party, which had been divided between those who supported then-leader Martine Ouellet and those who had publicly resigned from the Bloc to protest against her leadership.