Prime Minister François Legault does not want “ethnonationalist” thinker Alexandre Cormier-Denis to speak during the general consultations on immigration in the National Assembly. “We will agree with the opposition so that he does not come,” he said on Wednesday.
According to the CAQ elected official, the founder of the Nomos-TV website has “no place” in the parliamentary committee. Mr. Cormier-Denis, whose presentation is scheduled for Thursday, is familiar with the themes of “great replacement” and “migratory submersion”.
“I absolutely do not condone Mr. Cormier-Denis’s comments,” responded the Minister of Immigration, Christine Fréchette, Wednesday morning, when asked about his inclusion on the schedule. “As a political party, we do not want to hear it tomorrow. »
All the political groups represented in the National Assembly agreed on Wednesday morning to cancel the controversial invitation from Mr. Cormier-Denis, whose YouTube account was banned in 2021. She is the president of the Relations Commission with the citizens who will make it official.
In the morning, Quebec Solidaire and the Parti Québécois both agreed to disinvite the right-wing thinker. Both parties had in fact already proposed to the Commission not to hear it. “I hope that there is unanimity with the different parties to say: ‘he is not welcome’,” said the parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire, Alexandre Leduc, on Wednesday. “He’s a white supremacist. »
“We sent back a reduced list in which Alexandre Cormier-Denis and others did not appear. For some reason that escapes us, he and other groups always appear among the people who will be heard,” noted Parti Québécois MP Pascal Bérubé.
The Liberal Party of Quebec initially maintained the vagueness, before changing its mind on Wednesday. “Who am I to muzzle a group? Do I agree with all the groups that go to parliamentary committee? I have been serving since 2018. What is my role? Listen to the groups,” said the liberal spokesperson on immigration, Monsef Derraji, at a press conference.
“We agree to withdraw it,” finally wrote Maxime Doyon-Laliberté, the press secretary of the interim leader, Marc Tanguay.
Further details will follow.