The Quebec Liberal Party withdrew Anne Deblois’ candidacy in Charlesbourg after controversial statements, particularly on Islam, emerged. The candidate also opposed her leader’s positions in two of the most important acts of the Capitale-Nationale: the tram and the third link.
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In the past, Ms Deblois has notably reiterated on Twitter that Islam is a “totalitarian religion” and that “the French will one day have to choose between Islam and death,” reports La Presse daily this morning.
His candidacy announced on Wednesday was withdrawn late Thursday, at the end of the evening.
“Anne DeBlois’s comments are unacceptable and inconsistent with liberal values. She will therefore not stand as a candidate for our political party in the 2022 elections. The party will soon announce a new candidacy to represent the people of Charlesbourg,” confirmed the communications director at the Liberal leader’s office, Jérémy Ghio, on Friday morning.
Ms Deblois is also a staunch opponent of the Quebec City Streetcar, a project nonetheless backed by Dominique Anglade’s Liberal Party. However, her positions are known: she was a candidate for the Quebec Conservative Party, a board member of Quebec 21 and has blogged and tweeted on the subject.
“As a good curator, my heart bleeds to think of the final bill that awaits us when outgoing Quebec Mayor Régis Labeaume’s streetcar project finally gets operational…” she wrote on her blog on June 11. 2021 .
A few months earlier, she had promised herself that she would go to the local elections in order to “send the following message to the entire political class: never again do large-scale projects at the expense of the population”. “I’m going to make it a personal fight,” she wrote.
In February, she directly challenged Dominique Anglade on Twitter, implying that the Liberal leader was misinformed on the file.
“Mrs. Anglade, for heaven’s sake! If you had followed the file from the beginning, you would be the first to think that the Prime Minister had good reason to act this way,” she said when we learned that the Legault government wanted to amputate certain sections.
third link
At the Quebec-Lévis tunnel, Ms. Deblois was also at odds with her new political formation.
Dominique Anglade calls the 3rd Link project a “hole in the river” and promises to invest the planned billions in infrastructure for health and education instead.
Anne Deblois said on Twitter in February 2021: “The 3rd link has been due for at least 50 years”.