Under the rule of Yves-François Blanchet, the Bloc Québécois is promoting a sovereignism that marginalizes immigrants, unified MP Ruba Ghazal denounces.
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“We need to stop pointing fingers at immigrants and get back to yesterday’s openness,” the Mercier member fumed Wednesday, even inciting a “speech of fear” at newcomers.
La Solidaire used its platform as part of a debate on a PQ motion calling for disclosure of the Grenier Commission’s archives in response to the block leader’s volleys. Earlier in the week, Yves-François Blanchet questioned her sovereign loyalties and even those of her political party, having already voted for the New Democratic Party at the federal level.
“How can we unite when we attack people like me who want the independence movement to grow and spread among the population, (…) among all people, regardless of their origin and where they come from?” How can we join forces in bringing charges against a law 101 child who loves quebec?
Ruba Ghazal, who will be in the running to succeed Manon Massé as Quebec Solidaire’s co-speaker, made a strong plea for Quebec sovereignty and regretted that the pro-independence movement was divided into two camps.
“A polarization that often happens on the backs of immigrants and it harms immigrants, but not only them, it also harms all of Quebec, its reputation, this type of speech and it also harms the independence movement and independence,” she pointed out.
Not René-Lévesque’s Quebec
The Mercier member gave the example of a controversial Bloc ad that compared Roxham Road to an all-inclusive.
“It’s hurtful and it’s not the Quebec of today, it’s not the Quebec of René Lévesque, it’s not the Quebec of Gérald Godin whose heir I am.”
Ruba Ghazal said he voted for the Bloc Québécois for a long time when the party was led by Gilles Duceppe. Back then, political education was “progressive,” cosmopolitan, and open to immigrants, she continued.
She reaffirms that Québec Solidaire is independent, but speaks of sovereignty “differently”, that is, “in a unifying way”, “giving a speech of openness and generosity to immigrants who choose Quebec”.
The DGEQ invited to the disclosure of their archives
The PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon didn’t like the presentation at all, he thinks the timing was very bad.
MPs in the National Assembly will vote on the PQ proposal tomorrow, but all indications are that Quebec’s elected officials will ask Quebec’s Chief Electoral Officer to examine the archives of the Grenier Commission, which is funding the “No” camp examined to make it publicly available. in the 1995 referendum and which are subject to a publication ban.
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