MONTREAL — Quebec’s major labour unions marched in downtown Montreal Saturday, their members expressing anger over the Quebec government’s legislative agenda which includes a number of measures aimed at the labour movement.

Tens of thousands of Quebecers armed with noisemakers and signs marched from Place du Canada to Premier François Legault’s Montreal offices marching against what the unions described as an assault on workers’ rights, collective bargaining and heavy cuts to public services.

Magali Picard, president of the Quebec Federation of Labour, said the plan was to send a strong message.

“We want the government to understand that the middle class, workers, community groups, the people, need a government that listens and works with them,” she told reporters ahead of the march.

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