According to CAQ MP Richard Campeau, “native” voters in Camille-Laurin agree with François Legault when he says it would be “suicidal” to welcome more immigrants.
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The journalists who follow the liberal caravan came across the deputy for Camille-Laurin by chance during a stop by Dominique Anglade at Place Versailles.
Mr. Campeau said he was very comfortable with recent statements by his leader, according to whom welcoming more than 50,000 newcomers a year would be “suicidal” for French in Quebec.
“I’ll tell you very frankly, what I hear at the doors, people, they seem fine with that. Native francophones, for example, you will tell me. I think people said: well yes, it’s a word! “, said Richard Campeau.
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“It’s obvious that we’re going to have language problems if we don’t receive and welcome our immigrants with dignity, in the right way,” he added.
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Moreover, the CAQ member does not believe that the withdrawal of solidarity Marie-Ève Rancourt can benefit the PQ leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who is a candidate in the same riding.
“It’s not what I see at the gates,” he says, while ensuring that he does not consult the polls during the electoral campaign.
Marie-Ève Rancourt announced her withdrawal from the electoral campaign at the beginning of the week, after being filmed removing a PQ leaflet left in a mailbox.
Richard Campeau did not want to say if his adversary had been right to withdraw completely from the race.
“I would never have allowed myself to do such a thing,” he says.