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Federal minister wades into Quebec election, suggesting CAQ chief is dividing Quebecers on immigration.

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François Legault places on a Montreal Canadiens face masks as he finishes the day by day COVID-19 press briefing, Thursday, Might 21, 2020 in Montreal. Picture by Ryan Remiorz /THE CANADIAN PRESS

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High updates

Duhaime didn’t pay some municipal, college taxes: experiences
Legault says new Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki ‘should study French’
CAQ chief denounces intimidation and threats towards candidates
Candidate condemns protesters who shouted profanities outdoors his dwelling
Federal minister says Legault dividing Quebecers on immigration
Legault has lengthy urged non-francophone immigration is a menace
Quebec Liberals say they’d divert hydro energy to hydrogen venture
Opinion: Quebec political events are competing for the worst immigration coverage
5 leaders will face off in first of two French debates on Thursday
Legault lashes out at Anglade: ‘She’s at all times destructive and Quebecers don’t like that’
Duhaime blasts ‘divisive’ Legault for contemporary remark about immigration
Quebecers blame Legault authorities for province’s ‘poor’ well being care, ballot suggests
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3:40 p.m.

Duhaime didn’t pay some municipal, college taxes: experiences

Final week, Le Journal de Québec reported that Quebec Conservative Chief Éric Duhaime amassed a debt of greater than $14,000 after not paying municipal taxes in Quebec Metropolis.

The town threatened to grab two of his buildings, Le Journal reported.

After the story broke, Duhaime initially stated his tenants had been liable for paying the payments, however later took duty for the non-payment, the newspaper reported.

Now, La Presse experiences that Duhaime additionally didn’t pay college taxes on one of many buildings for greater than two years. The quantity: $2,400. La Presse experiences that the native college service centre took him to court docket to power him to pay, then despatched a bailiff to gather.

3:10 p.m.

Legault says new Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki ‘should study French’

Welcome to the Quebec election marketing campaign, Nick Suzuki.

On Monday, the 23-year-old walked as much as a crush of reporters and uttered his first few phrases as the brand new captain of the Montreal Canadiens. In rudimentary French, he stated whats up and declared it an honour to put on the “C” for the Habs.

Suzuki, who was born in London, Ont., stated he’ll proceed to enhance his French, Montreal Gazette colleague Stu Cowan experiences.

“I used to be taking on-line lessons on Babbel this summer time somewhat bit,” Suzuki stated. “I took French for many of my education. I’m higher at studying than talking.”

Inside minutes, Suzuki grew to become election marketing campaign fodder.

Parti Québécois Chief Paul St-Pierre Plamondon advised reporters the brand new captain must enhance his French.

François Legault additionally weighed in.

“It’s a wonderful selection,” stated the Coalition Avenir Québec chief and incumbent premier.

“Nick Suzuki is the perfect participant, together with Cole Caufield.”

Smiling, Legault added: “I feel it’s a wonderful selection. Nonetheless, he should study French.”

2:50 p.m.

Legault denounces intimidation and threats towards candidates

François Legault of the Coalition Avenir Québec says intimidation and threats don’t have any place in Quebec politics.

He was reacting to information that protesters final week targetted a CAQ candidate’s dwelling carrying upside-down Quebec and Canadian flags, honking their horns and yelling obscenities. A 16-year-old lady was in the home on the time. (See merchandise beneath, timestamped: 12:55 p.m.)

“It’s regular, particularly in an election marketing campaign, that there be debates, disagreements however there are traces which have been crossed,” Legault advised a press convention.

“In the mean time, there are candidates who’re afraid, whose households are afraid. And we gained’t settle for that in Quebec. That goes towards democracy. It’s the duty of all leaders to attraction for calm and to denounce intimidation. That’s what I’m doing.”

He the actions of those that vandalize posters, interact in intimidation and make threats “have penalties on human beings, even on youngsters. It’s completely unacceptable. Scaring a toddler has nothing to do with freedom – and intimidating and violating somebody’s property it’s actually not about freedom.”

He stated he’s by no means seen related incidents in earlier campaigns. “It’s worrying,” Legault stated.

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1:50 p.m.

Bloc chief to attend PQ occasion Tuesday

12:55 p.m.

CAQ candidate condemns protesters who shouted profanities outdoors his dwelling

Coalition Avenir Québec candidate Éric Lefebvre is talking out after a gaggle of protesters in autos confirmed up in entrance of his dwelling final week.

Lefebvre, the incumbent MNA for Arthabaska, stated the folks had been carrying upside-down Quebec and Canadian flags, honking their horns and yelling “fuck Legault, fuck Lefebvre and freedom, freedom!” he stated.

“After we do politics, we… sacrifice lots of time with our households and with our associates and the one small place the place we are able to take refuge is our residence,” he advised TVA. “I actually have the impression of getting had my privateness violated.”

His spouse and a 16-year-old lady had been in the home on the time.

The Sûreté du Québec is investigating a number of “intimidation makes an attempt” towards Lefebvre, TVA experiences.

A number of different candidates have additionally reported incidents in current weeks, together with alleged threats and on-line intimidation, in addition to a break-in and vandalism at a driving workplace.

12:45 p.m.

Federal minister says Legault dividing Quebecers on immigration

From The Canadian Press:

Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has waded into the Quebec election marketing campaign, saying it’s time for Coalition Avenir Québec Chief François Legault to cease dividing Quebecers into “us and them.”

Rodriguez was responding to feedback made by Legault at a marketing campaign rally Sunday that non-French-speaking immigration to the province is a menace to “nationwide cohesion.”

The minister advised reporters outdoors a federal Liberal caucus assembly in St. Andrews, N.B., at this time that he wonders whether or not Legault would have thought of him and his mother and father threats as a result of they spoke no French once they immigrated to Quebec from Argentina.

Rodriguez, who’s the prime minister’s Quebec lieutenant, famous that his household realized French and his mother and father grew to become professors on the French-language Universite de Sherbrooke.

Quebec Liberal Chief Dominique Anglade, whose mother and father had been Haitian immigrants, advised reporters in Laval, Que., that Legault’s feedback had been “pathetic” and accused him of intentionally attempting to show folks towards one another.

Talking in St-Lazare, Que., this morning, Legault stated immigration advantages Quebec however the province’s capability to just accept immigrants is proscribed if it needs to guard the French language.

12:40 p.m.

Speaking to the candidates in D’Arcy-McGee

With the incumbent not searching for re-election and the Liberals dealing with some hassle in usually secure Montreal seats, D’Arcy-McGee driving could also be a race to observe on Oct. 3.

The driving, which incorporates Côte-St-Luc and Hampstead, in addition to a part of Montreal’s Snowdon and Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhoods, has historically been probably the most devoted Liberal strongholds. Liberal David Birnbaum garnered 74 per cent of the vote within the 2018 common election.

Robert Libman gained the driving for the anglophone protest Equality Social gathering in 1989.

Mike Cohen, a Côte-St-Luc metropolis councillor, has interviewed 4 native candidates within the driving on his podcast. You’ll be able to hear right here.

12:20 p.m.

Legault has lengthy urged non-francophone immigration is a menace

Over the previous week, François Legault of the Coalition Avenir Québec has been making headlines with feedback about immigrants, suggesting they’re a menace to the French language.

At one level, he linked immigrants with violence and extremism earlier than saying he had been misunderstood.

However the impression of immigrants who aren’t proficient in French has lengthy been a key focus for Legault.

From a 2016 Montreal Gazette story by Philip Authier:

Left unchecked, Quebec’s immigration stage poses a menace to language and tradition, Coalition Avenir Québec Chief François Legault stated, calling for a large lower – 10,000 fewer a 12 months – in new arrivals (from 50,000 to 40,000).

And Legault went additional, speculating that Premier Philippe’s Couillard’s private previous – together with time spent in Saudi Arabia as a physician – could clarify why he “careens uncontrolled,” and exhibits a malaise every time the immigration subject is raised.

The actual fact Couillard is beholden to anglophone and allophone members of his personal social gathering who consider within the idea of multiculturalism additional skews his judgment, Legault charged, dropping the gloves a day after Couillard in contrast Legault to Donald Trump.

“It’s mathematical,” Legault stated at a information convention referred to as to make his new immigration pitch because the social gathering’s two-day caucus assembly wrapped up.

“We don’t make many youngsters in Quebec, and we’ve got 50,000 new arrivals yearly and 41 per cent don’t communicate French. Do the multiplication over 25 years and you will note it’s troubling. Troubling for Montreal, for certain, however all of Quebec.”

Legault went additional, lumping language and tradition into the identical storyline of his “Quebec threatened” spin.

“For me, there’s an actual danger and I’ve deep considerations in regards to the survival of French in the long run in Quebec,” Legault stated. “All of us should ask ourselves questions. We are able to’t be naive. There are, in actuality, threats, individuals who don’t consider in our values or select to not study French.”

12:05 p.m.

Quebec Liberals say they’d divert hydro energy to hydrogen venture

Quebecers should cut back their electrical energy consumption if a provincial Liberal authorities is elected in October.

The Quebec Liberal Social gathering is aiming to cut back electrical energy consumption by 16-terawatt hours with a view to energy its ECO inexperienced hydrogen venture.

Learn our full story.

Midday

‘Bye-bye Legault’

Conservative Chief Éric Duhaime has taken to ending marketing campaign occasions with a wave as he says, “bye-bye Legault.”

11:55 a.m.

Opinion: Quebec political events are competing for the worst immigration coverage

“Because of inhabitants growing old, Quebec’s financial development will decelerate over the medium time period, and Quebecers’ high quality of life shall be negatively impacted. Except Quebecers begin having extra infants, which is unlikely, the one repair is a dynamic, formidable immigration and integration coverage. That’s what politicians needs to be speaking about on this marketing campaign, as an alternative of competing for the bottom immigration goal.”

Learn André Pratt’s newest column.

11:25 a.m.

5 leaders will face off in first of two French debates on Thursday

Halfway by the marketing campaign, the leaders of the 5 essential events will participate in a debate on Thursday on the TVA community, starting at 8 p.m.

A second and ultimate debate will happen on Radio-Canada on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 8 p.m.

Each shall be in French.

A proposed debate in English was axed in Might after François Legault of the Coalition Avenir Québec.

On the time, Legault’s press attaché, Ewan Sauves, stated in a press release Legault had already dedicated to different debates.

“The premier is already collaborating in two debates organized by the TVA and Radio-Canada networks,” he stated “It’s a must to perceive every debate requires a not-negligible quantity of preparation time.”

Legault took half in an English debate throughout the 2018 election marketing campaign.

11:10 a.m.

Conservatives, Liberals, CAQ lay out proposals

At press conferences this morning:

The Conservatives promised to arrange a public sex-offender registry.

Liberals laid out their power platform, targeted partially on inexperienced hydrogen.

The CAQ promised assist for fogeys of youngsters with disabilities.

11 a.m.

The Nook Sales space: Liberal David Heurtel discusses the Quebec election

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10:50 a.m.

Legault lashes out at Anglade: ‘She’s at all times destructive and Quebecers don’t like that’

At a press convention this morning, Legault was requested about his feedback concerning immigration and “nationwide cohesion.” (See merchandise beneath, timestamped 10:40 a.m.)

“Immigration is an asset, however we’ve got the problem of accepting quite a few immigrants that we’re capable of combine to guard French in the long run. French is in decline for the time being.”

Legault stated “one of many causes that Quebecers adopted (pandemic) guidelines greater than elsewhere is as a result of there’s nationwide cohesion in Quebec.

“Individuals have sure values, it’s a tightly knit nation. However for there to be nationwide cohesion, there needs to be a nation, a powerful nation. And for a Quebec nation to be robust, it’s a must to defend French.”

Earlier, Liberal Chief Dominique Anglade accused Legault of participating in “petty politics” and deliberately dividing Quebecers to win votes.

Requested to remark, Legault seemed to be irritated, saying; “Mme. Anglade is at all times destructive and Quebecers don’t like that. In some unspecified time in the future, she should inform us how she’s going to cease the decline of French in Quebec.”

10:40 a.m.

Duhaime, Anglade blast ‘divisive’ Legault for contemporary remark about immigration

Éric Duhaime says François Legault has no classes to present on social cohesion.

At a press convention in Quebec Metropolis this morning, a reporter requested the Conservative chief to touch upon Legault’s rivalry that non-francophone immigration is a menace to Quebec’s “nationwide cohesion.”

The Coalition Avenir Québec chief and incumbent premier made the touch upon the weekend as he mentioned the truth that the Liberals and Québec solidaire wish to elevate immigration ranges.

“I feel Mr. Legault shouldn’t be able to talk of threats to social cohesion,” Duhaime stated. “He himself has related immigration with violence and who a number of weeks in the past was associating immigration with ‘Louisianization.’”

He added: “He’s a person who has drastically divided Quebec, significantly on these points.”

On the weekend, Legault stated rising immigration to the extent proposed by the Liberals and QS threatens the French language and thus Quebec’s nationwide cohesion.

“It’s math – if we wish to cease the decline, for some time, we’ve got to higher combine newcomers to French.”

Liberal Chief Dominique Anglade this morning accused Legault of participating in “petty politics.”

“He needs to divide Quebecers,” she stated.

Legault is intentionally “interesting to baser instincts,” suggesting the CAQ chief’s feedback “feed the worry of ‘the opposite.’”

She added: “The oldest type of politics is to scare folks, to say, ‘Watch out, they’re completely different.”

“Each time I hear François Legault say these items it actually will get to me as a result of it’s a lack of awareness of how Quebec was constructed.

“French folks got here and English folks got here however you then had Irish, Scottish, Greek, Italian – folks from in all places – you then had Haitians and Columbians and Chileans… and we’re robust as a result of we’re collectively.”

Noting Legault is campaigning in Laval this morning, Anglade stated: “I hope he meets people who find themselves of Italian heritage, Chilean heritage, Cambodian heritage, Greek heritage as a result of these are individuals who have constructed up the Quebec that I do know, the Quebec that we all know, the Quebec that my mother and father selected.”

Anglade’s mother and father had been born in Haiti.

Different events reacted on the weekend, La Presse Canadienne reported:

Legault is “clumsy” and “hurtful” when he talks about immigration, QS co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois stated.

“I’m uninterested in François Legault at all times speaking about immigration as an issue, as a menace, as one thing that weakens us as a nation,” he added.

The chief of the PQ, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, additionally criticized Legault for making “divisive assertions” and “not very accountable”.

“After we discuss threats, worry, we are going to play in an emotional register to attempt to make folks overlook that the CAQ is complicit and largely liable for the decline of French”, he accused.

“François Legault’s file is that he could have welcomed 120,000 immigrants who don’t communicate French throughout his mandate,” St-Pierre Plamondon added.

The CAQ and the Conservatives say Quebec ought to welcome 50,000 immigrants yearly, whereas the Liberals are calling for 70,000 and QS, 80,000. The PQ needs the annual stage lower to 35,000.

Quebec’s official everlasting immigration ranges have been set at between 40,000 and 50,000 yearly underneath the Coalition Avenir Quebec authorities, however the province will absorb practically 70,000 immigrants in 2022 to make up for shortfalls throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Le Québécois ne doivent pas se faire confisquer un débat essential sur l’immigration et sur l’avenir du français par des déclarations exagérées et outrancières. Revenons à l’essentiel : les propositions. Seul le PQ suggest un modèle sturdy qui donne au français un avenir au Qc. https://t.co/agSlm3isGE

— Paul St-Pierre Plamondon (@PaulPlamondon) September 12, 2022

Les Ukrainiens qui fuient les bombes, les Italiens, les Grecs, les Mexicains, les Portugais, les Vietnamiens, les Colombiens, la réunification familiale, c’est une menace à notre nation? C’est votre discours @francoislegault qui menace la cohésion sociale.https://t.co/uDe4GNNWaM

— Dominique Anglade (@DomAnglade) September 11, 2022

10 a.m.

Quebecers blame Legault authorities for province’s ‘poor’ well being care, ballot suggests

Nearly 60 per cent Quebecers say well being care within the province is poor, a brand new nationwide ballot suggests.

And half say Premier François Legault’s authorities shoulders a lot of the duty, the best proportion in any province, in line with the Angus Reid Institute, which performed two polls in regards to the subject in August.

“Canadians usually tend to consider extra personal well being care will worsen the medical system than enhance it,” with half saying that rising personal care will solely harm the well being system, the non-profit public analysis institute stated.

These in Saskatchewan are the most certainly to consider that privatization will enhance the well being care community.

Quebec is the one different province the place help for personal care reaches a plurality stage.

As a part of his election platorm, Legault is promising to construct privately owned “mini hospitals.”