Québec solidaire calls for visiting rights in all public establishments

Québec solidaire (QS) is demanding visiting rights in public establishments for MPs.

The political party will submit a bill to the National Assembly on Thursday to “strengthen the control of government action by a deputy by granting him the right to visit administrative institutions”.

In a press scrum Thursday morning, the member for Sherbrooke, Christine Labrie, explained that she had suffered numerous refusals from establishments since her arrival in politics six years ago.

Mme Labrie said she was particularly concerned about the accommodation conditions in Quebec youth centers.

“We, as deputies, should be able to do our job,” she declared.

“There are several youth centers which were identified to me by the collective of former placed young people of the DPJ as places which were particularly unsanitary […] and I was refused visits. […] I wasn’t able to see it with my own eyes. »

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