OTTAWA — The man who launched a legal challenge to Quebec's law on unilateral secession is posing some questions for Tom Mulcair that could prove awkward for the NDP leader.
Keith Henderson wants to know if an NDP government would continue to intervene in support of his court challenge to Bill 99, a 1999 provincial law which asserts that Quebecers alone have the right to democratically determine their own future, without interference from the rest of Canada.
He's also asking Mulcair to clarify if he believes aboriginal people and other "loyal Canadians" could separate from Quebec if the province were to secede from Canada and whether he believes an independent Quebec would have to pay for its share of the federal debt and compensation for federal assets in the province.
Henderson and other members of an advocacy group he chairs, the Special Committee for Canadian Unity, have scheduled a news conference Tuesday to put these and six other questions to Mulcair, all aimed at pushing him to clarify the NDP's policy on Quebec secession.
The committee's move comes just two days before the first French televised leaders' debate of the marathon federal election campaign.
more than awkward
Tough questions on Quebec secession put to Mulcair just before French debate | National Newswatch
Keith Henderson wants to know if an NDP government would continue to intervene in support of his court challenge to Bill 99, a 1999 provincial law which asserts that Quebecers alone have the right to democratically determine their own future, without interference from the rest of Canada.
He's also asking Mulcair to clarify if he believes aboriginal people and other "loyal Canadians" could separate from Quebec if the province were to secede from Canada and whether he believes an independent Quebec would have to pay for its share of the federal debt and compensation for federal assets in the province.
Henderson and other members of an advocacy group he chairs, the Special Committee for Canadian Unity, have scheduled a news conference Tuesday to put these and six other questions to Mulcair, all aimed at pushing him to clarify the NDP's policy on Quebec secession.
The committee's move comes just two days before the first French televised leaders' debate of the marathon federal election campaign.
more than awkward
Tough questions on Quebec secession put to Mulcair just before French debate | National Newswatch