(Victoriaville) The Liberal Party (PLQ) denies not making room for Quebec nationalists.
Activists and elected officials gathered in general council, Saturday in Victoriaville, thus responded to the former president of the political commission of the PLQ, Jérôme Turcotte, who launched a cry of alarm.
He believes that there is no place for those who defend the affirmation of Quebec and that the party is crossed by a “Canadianizing nationalism”.
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The former president of the political commission of the PLQ, Jérôme Turcotte
“Personally, I don’t feel it, frankly,” said Liberal MP Frédéric Beauchemin, tipped to run for the leadership.
But in the same breath, he admits that there is a “very Montreal representation” in the current Liberal deputies and that we must “reconnect with 94% of the Francophone electorate”.
In a scrum, the interim Liberal leader, Marc Tanguay, said that nationalist activists will have the opportunity to express themselves in this general council.
The place is there, those who said (that they were marginalized) will have the opportunity to express themselves, the revival will be done by addressing the real issues.
Marc Tanguay, interim leader of the PLQ
MP Michelle Setlakwe for her part said that CAQ leader François Legault did not have a monopoly on nationalism.
“He does not have an exclusivity on a concept of nationalism”, she declared in a scrum with the press, while adding: “The French fact is extremely important for me, I am a bilingual person, I want to defend Quebec’s interests within a Canada. »
As for knowing what the nationalism of the Liberal Party looks like, how it is expressed, whether it should go as far as the Allaire report or the firm demands of Premier Robert Bourassa, the answer is more vague and remains to be defined.
“We have to be bold, we have to be bold,” Tanguay said.