Quebec municipal party's comments about Islam prompt hate speech complaint
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A Quebec City resident has filed a complaint to Elections Québec denouncing hate speech in a municipal party's platform.
On its website, the Alliance Citoyenne de Québec (ACQ) calls Islam a "cancer that is growing slowly within Quebec society."
Radio-Canada obtained an email sent to the Quebec City returning officer, in which the plaintiff says ACQ made hateful remarks aimed at Quebec's Muslim community.
The plaintiff called the comments "problematic" and asked the returning officer to "take the appropriate action" against the party for sharing those words publicly.
The ACQ platform the plaintiff took issue with says the party will never run a candidate who "favours the Islamization of Quebec City," and it vows to establish a municipal administration, which will "do its best to counter Islamization of Quebec City."
It does not provide a definition or explanation of the term "Islamization."
Alain Giasson, ACQ leader and mayoral candidate, says the "Islamization" section at the bottom of the website was added to the platform weeks ago.
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