Nearly a year after six Muslim men were gunned down in a Quebec City mosque, political leaders are still struggling to reach agreement on how to commemorate the attack.
Both the Parti Québécois and Coalition Avenir Québec, the province’s two main opposition parties, have come out against a proposal made last week by the National Council of Canadian Muslims, taking issue with the idea that the day should be devoted to action against Islamophobia.
CAQ spokesperson Samuel Poulin said that, instead, the anniversary should be “dedicated to commemorating the memory of the victims of this terrible tragedy.”
“It is the intolerable act of one person and not that of an entire society. Quebecers are open and welcoming, they are not Islamophobic,” he said in a statement.