(Montreal) Québec solidaire (QS) is taking advantage of National Indigenous Peoples Day to present five candidates from First Nations for the general election on October 3 in Quebec.
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The second opposition to the National Assembly affirms that this is a record number of Aboriginal candidacies ever presented by a party in Quebec.
They are the author Maïtée Labrecque-Saganash, a Cree, who will be a candidate for the nomination in Ungava; the author Michaël Ottereyes, an Innu from Mashteuiatsh, in Roberval; Jacques Thériault Watso, an Abenaki carpenter-joiner, in Nicolet-Bécancour; neuropsychologist Benjamin Gingras, member of the Anishnabe nation, in Abitibi-Est, and Innu designer-idea maker Gérard Briand in Saint-Laurent.
The spokesperson for Québec solidaire, Manon Massé, criticizes the government of the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) for not having changed the relationship from Nation to Nations despite the many promises made to the peoples of the First Nations since it came to power.
Mme Massé believes that putting forward so many First Nations candidates says more than any promise.