{"id":45226,"date":"2015-03-20T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45226"},"modified":"2015-03-20T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:22:21","slug":"immigration-hurting-sovereignty-movement-liberals-slam-peladeau-for-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/20\/immigration-hurting-sovereignty-movement-liberals-slam-peladeau-for-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration hurting sovereignty movement: Liberals slam Peladeau for comments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard (Patrick Lachance MCE \/ Philippe Couillard’s Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

QUEBEC — Premier Philippe Couillard says controversial comments about immigrants by Parti Quebecois leadership hopeful Pierre Karl Peladeau are a clear sign the separatist party is sliding towards ethnic nationalism.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Peladeau said immigration was hurting the sovereignty movement.<\/p>\n

Couillard says the comments signal a shift in strategy by the PQ due to a lack of economic arguments in favour of sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Peladeau is the perceived front-runner in the race to become leader of the PQ, which will be decided in May.<\/p>\n

Some of the other hopefuls were ill-at-ease with Peladeau’s comments and distanced themselves.<\/p>\n

But Couillard says the party itself and its leadership should also have distanced themselves from the media mogul’s comments.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night, Peladeau told a PQ leadership debate at Universite de Laval the movement was running out of time.<\/p>\n

“We don’t have 25 years ahead of us to achieve it,” Peladeau said. “With demographics, with immigration, we’re definitely losing one riding each year.”<\/p>\n

Peladeau said after the debate he wasn’t attacking immigrants but rather demonstrating the importance of reaching out to immigrants in the same way the federal government does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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