Lawyer Stéphane Handfield, who has labored for 30 years in immigration regulation, needs to as soon as once more symbolize the Parti Québécois (PQ) within the normal elections subsequent October.
The PQ chief Paul St-Pierre Plamondon introduced Friday morning that Handfield will probably be a candidate for the occasion’s nomination within the driving of Masson, in Lanaudière.
Handfield has been lively within the PQ for a number of years. He was a PQ candidate within the 2022 elections, once more in Masson, the place he completed second with 18.24 per cent of the vote.
For the previous three years, Handifeld has been the co-spokesperson on immigration for the sovereigntist occasion.
In March 2025, the lawyer introduced he was ending his non-public observe.
“It was a troublesome however well-considered choice. My evaluation from a 12 months in the past stays the identical. Our immigration system is damaged,” Handifeld argued at a press convention in Montreal on Friday.
“I selected to run for the Parti Québécois, specifically to repair this damaged immigration system,” he added, alongside St-Pierre Plamondon.
In current weeks, the PQ has offered a number of candidates in several areas in preparation for the election scheduled for subsequent fall.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews