Consultations on systemic racism: the CAQ is concerned the “dîner de cons”

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The CAQ has strongly denounced Friday the decision of the government Couillard, to hold local consultations on the systemic discrimination and racism behind closed doors.

Patrick Bellerose

Friday, 8 September 2017, 14:30

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Friday, 8 September 2017, 14:37

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The CAQ has strongly denounced Friday the decision of the government Couillard, to hold local consultations on the systemic discrimination and racism behind closed doors.

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“It is said the government of transparency, but we learn that this will be behind closed doors, deplores the spokesman of the CAQ in terms of immigration, Nathalie Roy. Therefore, the people will not know what is going on.”

The Journal revealed on Friday morning that the media and the general public could not attend the local consultations carried out by the NPOS to people racialized this fall. This first step is to gather evidence in view of the public forum which will be held in the month of November.

In addition, ” continues Nathalie Roy, the members of the opposition have not been informed of the progress of this extensive consultation which aims to find “concrete and long lasting solutions” to the problems of systemic discrimination and racism.

“There has been no invitation, no one has any idea of what will be the participation of elected officials,” she said. It is to ask, even if the elected will be invited to participate.”

“Dîner de cons”

But the member for Montarville admits she would be reluctant to participate in the process if she was invited. “If it is a dinner of cunts, I don’t want to be invited,” says Nathalie Roy.

She is concerned that the consultation does not “turn to the gentiles who are against the racism and the evil caquiste that is intolerant”. During the discussion on the draft law on religious neutrality, on Thursday, the minister of Justice, Stéphanie Vallée, has accused the CAQ to make proof of”intolerance”.

“The trial of Quebec”

For its part, the Parti québécois continues to denounce the consultation process as a whole. “Since the beginning, it was denounced to this commission, and we will continue to denounce it,” recalls the spokesperson of the PQ in the area of immigration and cultural communities, Carole Poirier.

“The trial of Quebecers, we have always been against, and the whole process is, for us, unacceptable”, she added.