And then there were three.
MP Jean-Francois Fortin has quit the Bloc Quebecois to sit as an independent, saying new leader Mario Beaulieu is destroying the party's credibility.
In a written statement Fortin said "The Bloc Quebecois that I believed in, that we believed in, no longer exists.
"The arrival of the new chief, Mario Beaulieu, is advancing a one-dimensional approach that is careless and intransigent, and is destroying the credibility established by Gilles Duceppe and continued by Daniel Paillé."
Fortin added that Beaulieu is rejecting everything the Bloc has stood for, and seems to have no interest in unifying separatists.
Fortin was elected as a Bloc MP in 2011 in the riding of Haute-Gaspesie-La Mitis-Matane-Matapedia and said he will serve out his term representing his constituents.
The three remaining Bloc MPs are André Bellavance, Louis Plamondon, and Claude Patry.
Troubling times for Bloc
The party's fortunes have declined severely in recent years, with only four MPs elected under the Bloc banner in 2011.
One NDP MP, Claude Patry, crossed the floor and joined the Bloc early last year. but in September 2013 the party ousted Maria Mourani after she spoke against the Charter of Secular Values proposed by the Parti Quebecois.
Leader Daniel Paillé then stepped down in December 2013 because he was in poor health.
On June 14 Mario Beaulieu was elected as party leader by a slim majority, with only 11,000 of the party's 19,000 members bothering to vote.
Almost immediately prior leader Gilles Duceppe took offense, saying it was in poor taste for Beaulieu and his supporters to chant the FLQ slogan "We will conquer."
In the weeks since, half-a-dozen former Bloc MPs have abandoned their plans to run again in 2015.
