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Immigration Issue Heats up in Final Days of Quebec Election Campaign

September 28, 2022
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In the countdown to the Quebec election on Oct. 3 vote, Premier François Legault has been pressing harder on the hot-button issues of immigration and cultural preservation, saying this week that accepting more immigrants would be “suicidal” for the French language. “As long as we haven’t stopped the decline of French, I think that for…

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Trudeau Says He Wants More Details Before Commenting On Quebec’s Proposed Tax on Unvaccinated

January 12, 2022
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal health minister were pressed repeatedly on Jan. 12 to state their position on Quebec’s proposal to tax the unvaccinated, but neither would commit, saying instead that more details are needed on the measure before they can comment. “Obviously, like people across the country, we’ve received that proposal with…

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Legault’s Tax on the Unvaccinated a Brazen Political Deflection Ploy

January 12, 2022
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Commentary It’s impossible to choose the foulest aspect of Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s appalling, cynical vow that he will use the provincial tax system as punishment for those unvaccinated against COVID-19. Everything about it is bad. But is the nastiest part the crude injustice? Or is it the doomed-to-failure incoherence that really scrapes the bottom…

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Quebec Board Wrong to Hire Teacher Who Wore Hijab Given Secularism Law: Legault

December 10, 2021
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MONTREAL—Premier Francois Legault says a school board in western Quebec should not have hired a teacher who wore a hijab. Legault told reporters today in Quebec City the province’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, has been in place since June 2019 and the Western Quebec School Board should have respected it when hiring. It…

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Legault Turns His Back on Fossil Fuel Development in Quebec

October 28, 2021
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Quebec Premier François Legault recently declared that the province is completely done with fossil fuel extraction and is now being pressured not to compensate the impacted companies. During his speech to open the new legislative session on Oct. 19, Legault said that going forward, Quebec needs to “count on its assets to profoundly transform our economy”…

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