ADQ leader Mario Dumont has dropped a second candidate from his election team for uttering what he calls "unacceptable" remarks.
Christian Raymond, who was running in the Prévost riding, has stepped down as an ADQ candidate after he told Le Mirabel that his party's policy of encouraging higher birth rates would reduce the risk of Quebec being overrun by immigrants and ethnic communities.
Raymond was quoted in French as saying "people come here and we're supposed to let them wear a turban and kiss the asphalt … I tell them, this isn't your home, you're just visiting."
Dumont removed Raymond from the ballot on Sunday and wasted no time telling reporters on his campaign trail about his decision.
"I ordered my organizers to make sure that person would step down, and [we will] have a better candidate, more representative of the values of our party," he said in French.
"We come to a point in our lives when we know what we want, we know what we don't want, and I don't want that in my team, and it's as simple as that."
The ADQ leader said he didn't hesitate to dismiss Raymond, the second candidate forced to pull out of the race for controversial comments.
The first candidate, internet radio host Jean-François Plante, was asked last week to step down after he suggested the annual commemoration of the Montreal massacre was getting tedious.
Dumont took some heat for allowing Plante's comments to stand for three days before he asked him to step down.
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| Party | Elected | Leading | Total | Vote Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIB | 48 | 0 | 48 | 33.08% |
| ADQ | 41 | 0 | 41 | 30.80% |
| PQ | 36 | 0 | 36 | 28.32% |
| QS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.65% |
| GRN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.89% |
| OTH | 0 | 0 | 0 | .26% |
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