“Quebecers are peaceful, they don’t like bickering, they don’t like extremists, they don’t like violence. We have to make sure we keep things as they are at the moment.” That was how Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault responded to a journalist earlier this month when asked about the threats Legault had cavalierly said immigration could represent. The journalist was piggy-backing on a flight of rhetoric the premier had started about Quebec society and its values. Legault later apologized, following the outrage his comments generated.
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