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A few days ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau affirmed that "freedom of expression is not without limits", in response to a question on the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad, as 

Charlie Hebdo did.

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"I said it clearly yesterday, I do not agree with Justin Trudeau's reservations when it comes to condemning without any kind of reservation what happened in France", then declared the Prime Minister. Quebec Minister François Legault at a press conference.

The controversy on the limits or not of freedom of expression was then relaunched Tuesday between these two Prime Minister after François Legault said he had received a call from Emmanuel Macron thanking him for his "clear position" on this issue.

The declarations of Justin Trudeau, after the beheading on October 16 by an Islamist of a French teacher, Samuel Paty, who had shown his students caricatures of the prophet of Islam, drew criticism from several political parties in Canada.

"Concessions that are not reasonable"

"It is certain that there are some political leaders who fear terrorism and who, faced with the blackmail of certain radical religious groups, are ready to make concessions which are not reasonable," said François Legault.

“The Quebec nation has values”, he added, referring to “freedom of expression”, “secularism” and the “French language”.

"It is not true that in the name of multiculturalism, we are going to put that aside and that we are going to make exaggerated compromises," he said.

Asked before, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recalled for his part that he had expressed his condolences and support to the French people and that he expected to speak to President Macron shortly.

"We will always defend freedom of expression," said the head of the Canadian government, stressing that Canada and France were "great allies".

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