(CBC) A Gatineau city councillor is apologizing for remarks she made last week about Islamophobia in Quebec, but maintains she’s been unfairly judged.
In a French-language newspaper interview last week, Coun. Nathalie Lemieux said she didn’t believe Islamophobia exists in the province, and insisted Quebecers aren’t as racist as some suggest.
Lemieux said Muslim immigrants choose not to integrate the way immigrants from other cultures do, and “do bad things with their trucks. … It’s normal to be afraid of them.”
She was responding to comments from Quebec Premier François Legault, who said there was no need for an anti-Islamophobia day in the province because the problem didn’t exist in Quebec. He later clarified that statement by saying there was no prevailing “undercurrent” of racism in Quebec.
