The Liberals and the New Democrats have decided to use racism against Quebec to make electoral gains in the rest of Canada.
This is how the Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet portrayed his opponents Justin trudeau and Jagmeet Singh Sunday.
The NDP leader is delighted that Quebeckers are challenging the law on secularism, a discriminatory law according to him.
Mr. Trudeau, who has always expressed his opposition to this law, said he would continue to defend the fact that Quebeckers are not racist.
According to Yves-François Blanchet, the Liberal leader is knocking on Quebec to win over voters in the rest of Canada.
“We have two political parties (the Liberal Party and the NDP) which have decided to use the accusations of racism against Quebec to go and make gains in Canada,” he said at a press conference at Espace René-Lévesque in New Carlisle (Gaspésie).
International relationships
Earlier Sunday, the Bloc announced its intention to launch a diplomatic offensive to improve Quebec’s image.
“The sympathy of President Emmanuel Macron is not as intense as that of some of his predecessors, but I think that all of this is being rebuilt and that the opening will be there,” said Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet, who presented Sunday a “kind of strategy” to “restore the worthy image” of Quebec abroad.
The network of influence of Quebec at the time, “powerful, connected, exceptional”, was attributable to a receptivity towards Quebec which is “not the same in the French government” today, he said. noted, because of the interest in the issue of independence.
“When the Quebec nation was planning great things, it aroused a lot of international interest. “
Negative image
In particular, the Bloc wants to counter the negative image of Quebec that is conveyed in foreign media, in particular by forging links with the network of embassies and consulates in Canada.
The chef remembers derogatory articles from the New York Times and you Washington Post on Quebec concerning secularism and the French language.
Mr. Blanchet relies on “networking”, because the Bloc has “good relations with a lot of people in the diplomatic apparatus”.
It is based on Quebec’s “natural partners”: France, Belgium, Catalonia, a “sister nation”.
“I am not excluding the UK,” he added.
He also intends to publish open letters in media in Europe, the United States and even English Canada.
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