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About 150 members of Montreal’s Chinese community and allies marched through the streets of downtown Montreal Sunday demanding an official apology from the leadership of Québec solidaire for what they consider racist comments by one of the party’s elected members of National Assembly.

On Feb. 13, Émilise Lessard-Therrien, QS’s agricultural critic and elected MNA for Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue, gave an interview with an online agricultural newspaper la vie Agricole.Near the end of that interview, Lessard-Therrien, used the word “predatory” to describe investors from China who she said have been spotted scoping out agricultural lands in her riding and lobbying for changes to laws that currently limit acquisition of agricultural land by non-residents.

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“In a few years, where in the world will there be land in relatively good shape and fresh water in big quantities? In Quebec and particularly in Témiscamingue where we have a lot of undeveloped land,” she said, after explaining that climate change will render agriculture difficult in some countries.