Parti Quebecois: Philippe Couillard

Philippe Couillard: He suggested Friday that the government spend more time trying to get Quebecers back to work, citing the most recent economic numbers that indicate that the Quebec unemployment rate has crept up from 7.9 to 8.2 percent and that 30,000 jobs were lost in the process, according to CTV. Couillard argued that a strong economy is an essential component to the successful integration of newcomers and Liberal leader Philippe Couillard is accusing the minority-governing PQ of contriving the ongoing secularism debate as a method of hiding from its poor economic record since taking power. The Parti Quebecois continues its policy of division, literally manufacturing a crisis to change the subject, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.