(Laval) Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is appealing to activists from traditional parties, to the sovereignists of the Parti Québécois, but also to the Liberals disappointed with Dominique Anglade, to invite them to join the cause of Québec solidaire.
Posted at 10:58 a.m.
“We are not condemned to what I call the little Quebec of the small ambitions of François Legault. We are capable of doing great things, ”hammered the parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire on Friday, the day after the first leaders’ debate.
“Quebec solidaire, it’s not just young people we want. We want an alliance between the generations, ”he continued.
While polls indicate that Liberal leader Dominique Anglade could be in trouble in her own riding of Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne, in Montreal, Mr. Nadeau-Dubois will campaign at home on Friday.
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Dominique Anglade
” [Dominique] Anglade has not been an effective official opposition leader in recent years. She wasn’t there on the housing crisis, she wasn’t there on the environment, she changed her mind on important issues. Me, I will not hesitate to say it, ”he defended.
“Yesterday Mr.me Anglade has repeatedly spoken like some of his predecessors. Like Mr. Charest, or Mr. Couillard. In short, the renewal promised to the Quebec Liberal Party does not seem to be happening,” he added.
Use of the N-word
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois also defended himself on Friday for having used the N-word during the Face to face at TVA, while the leader of the Parti Québécois, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, urged him to quote Pierre Vallières’ book.
“It’s Mr. Plamondon who has to answer questions this morning. […] Why, him, his priority, it was to make me say that word? I find it absurd,” he said.
“I don’t really understand why [il] absolutely wanted me to say it. I don’t know what he was trying to do. I didn’t want the debate to get out of hand on this. I wanted to focus on explaining why we have to fight systemic racism in Quebec,” he added.
In retrospect, Mr. Nadeau-Dubois believes that the first leaders’ debate highlighted the gap between his party and the Coalition avenir Québec.
” [D’un côté], we want to make Quebec the greenest country in the world. On the other, the vision of François Legault, [c’est] a vision worthy of the 90s, a vision turned towards the past. A Prime Minister who gave up, who put his hands in his pockets and who said to himself: well, we have nothing more to do in Quebec to fight against climate change, “he said. -he says.
Mr. Nadeau-Dubois, like the other leaders of the five main political parties, will make a speech on Friday before the Union of Quebec Municipalities (UMQ). Among other things, it must respond to the request of large cities who wish to have $2 billion a year from the government to prepare municipal facilities for the challenges of climate change.