Québec solidaire MNA offers mea culpa for remarks on racism in provincial legislature

A Quebec legislature subordinate says helium doesn’t deliberation his colleagues astatine the nationalist assembly are racist, arsenic his enactment prepares to look disapproval from each sides for arguable comments helium made earlier this month.

Haroun Bouazzi says helium volition stay a subordinate of the left-leaning Québec solidaire caucus successful a societal media connection published aft an exigency caucus gathering this morning.

Three parties, including the governing Coalition Avenir Québec, volition array motions astatine the legislature Tuesday day denouncing remarks Bouazzi made during a code to a assemblage group.

In his speech, Bouazzi said helium regularly sees the nationalist assembly conception an representation of number groups, including Muslims and Indigenous people, arsenic “dangerous oregon inferior.”

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The CAQ question calls connected Bouazzi to retreat his remarks and apologize to each members of the legislature.

Québec solidaire’s enactment has said Bouazzi’s comments were “clumsy, exaggerated and polarizing.”