Quebec’s provincial election has provided the ruling class with an opportunity to intensify its anti-immigrant campaign part of a pronounced chauvinist turn that has been underway for nearly two decades.
Immigration has dominated political discourse in the last days and weeks of the campaign. Some see parallels between CAQ comments and former premier Jacques Parizeau blaming his 1995 referendum loss on "money and ethnic votes."
Lyne Jubinville, a Parti Quebecois (PQ) candidate in Laval’s Sainte-Rose riding, has walked back some of her anti-Islam comments she made years ago on social media after facing pressure from the party s leader.