Not just an ‘anecdote’: Quebecers take offence to premier’s comments
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Quebec immigrants are taking offence to comments made
Filmmaker Anita Aloisio and former Superior Court Justice Pepita G. Capriolo barely know each other.
They both have different roots, histories and backgrounds, but what has brought them together is one major thing they have in common.
Both women are immigrants who have spent most of their lives in Quebec.
They speak English, French and Italian, so when they heard Premier Francois Legault call Liberal MNA Saul Polo an anecdote for successfully integrating into French Quebec, they took it personally.
At his party’s recent policy convention, Legault told supporters that if re-elected, he’ll demand more immigration powers from Ottawa.
If not, he added, Quebec risks turning into Louisana.
He later defended his statement by saying statistics suggest fewer people are speaking French at home and at work in the province.
When he was pressed by Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade on whether he thought immigrants like Polo were threats to Quebec, he called Polo’s story an anecdote, which not only offended the MNA for Laval-des-Rapides but many others across the province.
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