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In waging politics against minorities, Jean-François Lisée and Bernard Drainville were bleeding hearts compared to François Legault.

Drainville, who sponsored the former Parti Québécois government’s proposed “charter of values,” would have settled for firing Muslim women from government jobs if they refused to remove their hijabs.

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And Lisée, who was behind that government’s divisive “identity” strategy, would have merely deprived newcomers of the right to vote or run for office under provincial jurisdiction if they failed French and culture tests.

Legault is made of flintier stuff, as the Coalition Avenir Québec leader showed on Monday, when he unveiled an inhumane new immigration policy that could have been inspired by the hardline right-wing American Tea Party.

He would go so far as to have immigrants kicked out of the province four years after they arrived, if they’d failed to pass tests on French and the “values” in the Quebec charter of rights.