Pierre Poilievre would be as damaging for Quebec as Justin Trudeau, as different as he is, warned the leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, the day after the announcement of the departure of the Liberal Prime Minister.
“Whether it is [pour] the multiculturalist Trudeau left or the conservative right of Western Canada, the contempt for Quebec remains the same, and it is very striking,” declared the leader of the PQ during a press briefing Tuesday morning.
Pierre Poilievre “despises the Quebec independence movement,” he added. He said he “felt” this contempt in the interview given by the Conservative leader to Professor Jordan Peterson during the holiday season.
“Pierre Poilievre’s understanding of the independence movement since the founding of the Parti Québécois in the 1960s boils down to saying that it is because the economy is not doing very well under Trudeau and that he is going to fix that. You really have to have spent very little time interested in Quebec to make a statement like that,” he added.
The departure of Justin Trudeau and the probable election of a conservative government do not make the sovereignist project any less relevant, he insisted.
“Has anyone ever heard Pierre Poilievre talk about ceding full immigration powers to the government of Quebec? he said. Not only did he never say that, but regarding Roxham Road, he kept silent as long as it only concerned Quebec. He started talking about it when the subject began to interest the rest of Canada. »
Paul-Hus in defense of his leader
Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon also criticizes the Conservative leader for not “talking about culture” and for having been “silent on the 6 billion in health transfers that are owed to us,” among other things.
Mr. Poilievre’s political lieutenant in Quebec, Pierre Paul-Hus, came to his leader’s defense Tuesday afternoon by attacking not the PQ, but the Bloc Québécois. “The leader of the PQ should analyze what its partner, the Bloc Québécois, has done in recent years! » he launched in a tweet on the social network He supported policies that diminished the force of the Criminal Code [en] favoring bandits instead of victims,” added the federal MP, who affirmed that a conservative government would respect Quebec’s “fields of jurisdiction.”
The PQ leader did not say a word about the Bloc Québécois during his morning press briefing.
Nothing positive to say about Trudeau
The PQ leader also had nothing positive to say about Justin Trudeau, whom he described as “perhaps one of the worst prime ministers in Canadian history when it comes to Quebec.”
By not recognizing any legacy, he breaks with the custom of politicians saluting the contribution of their opponents upon their departure. To do otherwise would be “hypocrisy,” he said.
In a long tweet published the day before on the already thin have deteriorated” and “ideological abuses of all kinds, including the use of federal public funds to challenge secularism in Quebec.”
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