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Cormier-Denis Uploaded: French-Language Text and Canadian Multiculturalism

cormier-denis uploaded: French-language text on the poster reads Choose your Quebec, according to CTV. Underneath the photos of the woman, it says, Canadian multiculturalism, no thanks! The posters belong to the Parti Ind pendantiste's candidate for Montreal's Gouin riding, Alexandre Cormier-Denis, who is running against 12 others in the upcoming May 29 provincial byelection. The sign, which was hung outside the Jean-Talon and Beaubien Metro stations, shows two images of the same woman wearing a toque with a Quebec flag in one, and wearing a Muslim niqab in the other. Cormier-Denis uploaded a video to You Tube on the weekend, in which he defended the signs he said had been removed by police. Montreal police said they allowed the campaign posters to be rehung because they belong to an official political party and don't meet the criminal criteria for hate speech. In a tweet, Cormier-Denis wrote that the posters would be going back up much to the displeasure of totalitarian multiculturalism. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.