Justin Trudeau continues the work of his father and the architects of the “deportation” and “executions” of French-speakers through his migration policies and his incursions into Quebec’s areas of jurisdiction, the leader of the Parti Québécois, Paul St, argued on Tuesday. -Pierre Plamondon.
On Tuesday, the PQ leader accused the Prime Minister of Canada of leading an “offensive charge” against Quebec. “Justin Trudeau is in continuity with his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau,” he argued before reproaching current affairs commentators for not detecting “intentions” behind this. “It’s really forgetting recent history, such as the unilateral patriation of the Canadian Constitution without Quebec, forgetting the work of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, forgetting what Francophones experienced in the deportations, the executions, the ban on have an education in French. This regime has been constant throughout its history,” he declared.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon sees the signs of this burden in “temporary immigration which increased from 80,000 in 2016 to 560,000 [personnes] » as well as in the recent incursions of the federal government into Quebec’s jurisdictions, particularly in housing.
“Radical” and “conservative”
During the national council, the PQ leader had already mentioned the frontal “charge”, coming from “a regime which only knows how to crush those who refuse to assimilate”.
Comments which caused a lot of reaction from the oppositions in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
The interim leader of the Liberal Party, Marc Tanguay, called the speech “disconnected, exaggerated and radical.” It is not credible, he said, “that the federal government gets up every morning to plan our decline.”
On the side of Québec solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said he did not “remember a leader of the Parti Québécois with such a conservative speech”. “What I heard was a speech full of resentment.”
As for the government, it also disagreed with this reading. “We are making concrete gains,” said the Minister of Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette, referring to Law 96 in particular, and after saying he was not “resigned”. “We are aware of the risks but we are acting,” he said.