In the wake of the crisis shaking the Liberal Party of Quebec, the leader of the Conservative Party, Éric Duhaime, on Tuesday launched an appeal to Anglophones to join his party.
“If you believe in individual freedoms, that you have to move on, if you believe in the economy, if you believe in the free market, the Conservative Party of Quebec is your new home,” he declared. English Tuesday evening, during the meeting he holds each week with his supporters on the Web.
“If you think what we have been through for 20 months, it was too much. If you think the measures were overkill, the Conservative Party is your new home. “
“I want to make sure that you have an option, that you are no longer hostages of the Liberal Party,” he also said.
He reminded them that he was “nationalist”, but argued that it would not be “the central issue of the next campaign”.
“Political buoy”
More than 3,000 people watched Mr. Duhaime’s intervention live. Since his election to the leadership of the Conservative Party, he has spoken to his supporters on Twitter every week by video in a tone very reminiscent of the radio shows he hosted in the past.
“For a long time, Anglophones saw the Liberal Party as their kind of political buoy and faced with what is happening to the Liberal Party, which it is disappearing from French-speaking Quebec, I think it is important to start tonight. to reach out to our English-speaking friends, ”he had previously said in French.
The leader of the Conservative Party has also pledged to hold new online meetings in English only for Anglophones in Quebec and to design “a platform for them” on the party’s website.