
Quebec premier praises Tory Leader O’Toole, says NPD, Liberals ‘dangerous’ for Quebec
MONTREAL — Premier François Legault says the federal Liberals and NDP are dangerous for Quebec because they want to reduce the province’s autonomy.
Legault made the comments in Quebec City, a day after Wednesday’s second French-language leaders’ debate during the federal election campaign.
The premier says Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh want to impose national standards for health care, which he says is an appropriation of provincial powers.
He praised Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, however, for promising to increase health transfers without conditions, to give the province more control over immigration and for pledging not to join a challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21.