The electoral call
For over 75 years, the Palestinian people have lived under occupation, forced displacement, and settler colonization. This reality has dramatically worsened with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, recognized as such by a majority of international law experts and currently the subject of proceedings before the International Court of Justice.
Quebec has a rich history of supporting the Palestinian people, but today, it cannot claim to uphold human rights and international law while maintaining economic, diplomatic, and cultural ties with a state accused of genocide before the International Court of Justice.
We are asking candidates in the provincial elections to commit, once elected, to:
Commit to closing the Quebec office in Tel Aviv, whose existence normalizes economic, diplomatic, cultural, and research relations with a country accused of genocide before the International Court of Justice.
Commit to extending RAMQ coverage to Gaza residents, explicitly including individuals holding the temporary residence visa with the code MOME2023, issued by the federal government, under the Quebec Health Insurance Plan, on the same basis as any other person who has fled the war since 2023.
Commit to continuing and broadening the divestment of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) not only from Israeli companies, but also from any company complicit in the ongoing genocide or profiting from it, including arms, surveillance technology, and extraction companies operating in occupied territory.
Commit to closing the Quebec routes to Israel, ensuring that companies and infrastructure located on Quebec territory — ports, airports, transshipment hubs, industrial supply chains — are not used to facilitate the movement of weapons or weapons components to Israel.
These four demands become commitments only when someone asks for them. See who is running where you live, and where each of them stands.