MONTREAL – In a bid to appeal to English voters in Quebec, the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) will soon join the Liberals and Greens by providing an English-version of its online content.
In an interview with a Montreal radio station Tuesday morning, the CAQ leader, Francois Legault, confirmed that the English website will be up and running by the end of the week.
The CAQ is positioning itself as the only federalist alternative to the Liberal party and Legault has promised not to raise the issue of sovereignty for ten years.
In an exclusive interview with Global News, the party’s new star candidate, former police chief Jacques Duchesneau made it clear why he chose the CAQ over the Parti Quebecois.
“I am a federalist,” he said.
The fact that the party does not have a website in English has already been raised during the election campaign by Liberal finance minister and Outremont MNA, Raymond Bachand.
He posed the question to Quebec businessman and new CAQ candidate Stéphane Le Bouyonnec during a debate on a local Montreal radio program.
“Why doesn’t the CAQ have an English website?” Bachand asked.
To which Le Bouyonnec countered, “We don’t have the funds of the Liberals, obviously.”
The CAQ website originally included content in English, however officials say that the new election-ready website launch meant there has been a delay in getting the new content translated and online.
Stefan Stanczykowski, the CAQ candidate for Mont Royal, tweeted Tuesday morning that the site would be up and running by the end of the week.
In other attempts to reach out to anglophone voters, both the CAQ and the Liberal leaders also have said that they would be open to conducting a debate in English, but Pauline Marois, the leader of the Parti Quebecois, refused to take part, saying her English was not strong enough.
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