Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet said on Monday he was open to the idea of holding meetings in English Canada to explain the Quebec perspective on the federation, as the former leader had done. Gilles Duceppe in 2010.
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“With all the sincerity in the world, I extend my hand. I’m ready to do like Gilles [Duceppe] did it a number of years ago: going to explain, present, discuss, tell people who we are, why we see things as we see them, why this is our right ”, he said. declared that the first post-election caucus of the Bloc was held in Saint-Sauveur on Monday.
According to him, this need to “explain” was highlighted after the debate in English and the controversy surrounding the question that was put to him at the opening. In his eyes, it was “an important revelation of the enormous gap that separates the way the Canadian nation sees itself and sees the Quebecois, and the way the Quebecer sees itself and sees the Canadian”.
“I think that if we don’t go through the distorting sensation filter, I think we are able to talk to Canadians. And I am interested in doing it, because the good of both nations depends on it. ”
Mr. Blanchet believes that he will find interlocutors interested in his proposal.
Last week, Mr. Blanchet spoke with the “sympathetic” Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, about a possible interprovincial summit on health transfers, long demanded by the provinces.
In 2010, Gilles Duceppe led a series of six meetings outside Quebec to explain his point of view on sovereignty.
“It’s important to do this. They realize that we don’t eat babies for lunch, he said. We are reasonable people, ”the Bloc leader joked.
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