The Prime Minister “lacks heart” when it comes to immigration, pleads the liberal Dominique Anglade. Like Québec Solidaire, she believes that the CAQ government seeks to divide Quebec.
During the General Council of the CAQ last weekend, Premier François Legault affirmed that Quebec would become “a Louisiana” if the federal government does not cede all powers in immigration to him.
Dominique Anglade calls this statement "a shameless exaggeration". She mentioned that the Prime Minister has no heart, especially when he criticizes the too large proportion of immigrants from the family reunification program who do not speak French.
"There's no doubt in my head that François Legault lacks heart when he talks about this," she said.
His immigration spokesman, Saul Polo, who has a non-French-speaking immigrant background and speaks Spanish at home with his son, says the Prime Minister is trying to create a false debate on the issue of immigration.
"It seeks to oppose immigration against the French fact, against the French-speaking majority, while today's immigration demonstrates it, that it adopts French in the public space. She participates in these institutions in French, she contributes to the development of Quebec,” he said. "On the contrary, today, people of immigrant origin refuse to accept being labeled as a threat to Quebec and a threat to the future of French within Quebec."
Angry Ghazal
Solidarity MP Ruba Ghazal said she was really upset by the Prime Minister's remarks.
“I am really angry that Premier François Legault divides Quebecers on immigrants. I immigrated here, to Quebec, with my family more than 30 years ago. And I have some news for François Legault: my family and I are not a threat to the survival of Quebec. And it is important, for me, today, to take the floor so that young immigrants, immigrants, their children hear a different discourse than that which is uttered everywhere by the Prime Minister and which divides Quebecers, "said she asserted.
Her colleague Manon Massé mentioned “that 90% of Quebecers speak French” in Quebec, unlike this region of the United States.
“In Louisiana, they are given a handshake. Why are we doing this? Why is the Prime Minister doing this, if not to pose a threat that does not exist? There is no crisis here, in Quebec. When he tells immigrants and immigrants they are a threat, there is no immigration crisis,” she said.
PQ okay
The leader of the Parti Québécois, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, admitted half-heartedly that the situation in Quebec could one day resemble that of Louisiana.
“Yes, we are still at risk of seeing French decline irreversibly, especially in certain parts of our territory. It has always been the raison d'être of the Parti Québécois, moreover, to find public policies that allow the sustainability of the French language and our culture, ”he said. “French is back. Are we at the Louisiana stadium? No. But the French are backing down, and it's linked to the current decisions of the CAQ. But what François Legault is trying to do, I repeat, is to use superlatives to convince people of the far-fetched idea that a few more MPs would change anything in Ottawa, and that is wrong.
