Indigenous leaders say Legault’s resignation an opportunity for long-awaited changes – CBC

Jan 21, 2026

Province has yet to adopt United Nations declaration, sign major treaty

When Premier François Legault stood up in the National Assembly for his inaugural speech in 2018, he began by addressing Indigenous communities in the province.

“First Nations and Inuit were the first to discover and occupy this land,” Legault said at the time. “We must never forget that.”

It was a period of time Ghislain Picard, former chief of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador, looks back on as a “honeymoon” with the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), the party Legault founded.

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