PQ Congress | Carney “launched the referendum campaign,” says St-Pierre Plamondon
(Saint-Hyacinthe) The PQ leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, is not yet prime minister when he already affirms that the referendum campaign for the independence of Quebec has been launched. And according to him, it was Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney who launched this campaign with his remarks on the Plains of Abraham earlier this week.
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“This start of the No camp’s campaign, Thursday, has the merit of clarifying the future of things. A new political cycle has indeed begun. A new chapter in our history is opening before us,” said the PQ leader in front of several hundred of his activists gathered in Saint-Hyacinthe on Sunday.
“Mr. Carney, Quebec does not exist thanks to Canada. In fact, Quebec has survived in its difference and in its specificity, despite Canada,” he added.
A statement which earned him a standing ovation from the crowd of pumped-up PQ activists.
The PQ leader did not hesitate to designate his opponent as “the leader of the No camp”
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The PQ leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, during his speech
Asked at a press briefing after his speech whether this therefore meant the start of the Yes camp campaign, he replied: “In a way, I think so. »
While in Quebec, the Prime Minister of Canada declared that he saw the Battle of the Plains of Abraham as the beginning of a “partnership” between two peoples. In this battle in 1759, British troops led by General James Wolfe defeated the French army, which lost control of New France.
“The Plains of Abraham symbolize a battlefield, but also the place where Canada began to make the historic choice to favor adaptation over assimilation, partnership over domination, collaboration over division,” Mark Carney said Thursday.
He appealed for Canadian unity to face external threats, saying that “in Canada, it is when we are united that we are strongest.”
“Colonialism”
The PQ leader had already given a preview of his speech against the Canadian Prime Minister during the opening of his party’s congress on Friday. He then sharply criticized Mark Carney, accusing him of being part of a “long tradition of colonialism” which began with Lord Durham.
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Supporters react to Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s speech during the PQ congress
On Sunday, he added a layer.
“This tradition is that of falsifying facts and history and constantly keeping us in lies through federal institutions in order to make us believe that it is to our advantage to be subordinated and dominated,” said the PQ leader.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon affirms that the Yes camp must be that of “service of truth and hope”.
We will break away from British colonialism and create our own country.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, leader of the Parti Québécois
The PQ is at the top of the polls. The PQ leader insists that he will hold a referendum in a first mandate, even if the Yes option does not rally a majority of Quebecers.
The aspiring leader of the PLQ, Charles Milliard, wanted to respond to Paul St-Pierre Plamondon on the social network X.
“The priority in Quebec, according to Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, is to talk about the influence of British colonial power over us. What planet does he live on? Faced with the PQ’s guilt-ridden and past-oriented discourse, we will propose a pragmatic path forward for Quebec to the PLQ. We have a state to manage and a nation to prosper,” he wrote.
