COUILLARD LEAVES POLITICS
QUEBEC Outgoing Quebec premier Philippe Couillard made an impassioned plea for the respect of minority rights Thursday as he announced he is leaving politics following the Liberals’ crushing election defeat.
“The majority does not have all the rights, and those that it exercises must be compensated by a protection of those of minorities,” he said in the foyer of the national assembly in Quebec City. “It is a fundamental democratic principle.”
Elected premier in 2014, 61-year-old neurosurgeon served one mandate.