Quebec legislature resumes with Trump tariff threat, secularism on agenda [Video]

The Quebec legislature resumes sitting Tuesday for a spring session likely to be dominated by the threat of a trade war with the United States and a renewed focus on secularism and identity.

On the eve of the national assembly’s return, Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge announced the government will table a new bill on integration, focused on “adherence to the common culture” and to values including democracy, gender equality and secularism.

“For the first time in our history, we will define who we are and how we want to continue to evolve as a nation,” he said in a video posted Monday evening to social media.

He said the legislation will be in the same vein as the government’s controversial secularism law and its overhaul of the French language law.

Still, the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump’s promised 25 per cent tariff on goods imported from Canada will loom …