The CAQ government will entrust people from different political backgrounds with the task of identifying new powers to claim in Ottawa, we have learned The duty.
The Minister of Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette, — and not the minister responsible for Canadian Relations, Jean-François Roberge — will supervise the work of the group formed, according to our information, in particular by the former Minister of Education Sébastien Proulx , the former chief of staff of the PQ prime ministers René Lévesque and Pierre-Marc Johnson and former deputy minister, Martine Tremblay, as well as the law professor at the University of Sherbrooke Guillaume Rousseau.
Prime Minister François Legault will make the announcement on the sidelines of his government’s action report in the lobby of the Honoré-Mercier building tomorrow afternoon. The Deputy Prime Minister, Geneviève Guilbault, and the government parliamentary leader, Simon Jolin-Barrette, will stand by his side.
The establishment of a committee responsible for identifying new powers to be transferred from Ottawa to Quebec will come three days after the meeting between François Legault and his Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, on immigration in Quebec on Monday.
During their previous meeting, almost three months ago, the Quebec Prime Minister demanded full powers over immigration, which the Canadian Prime Minister refused.
Mr. Legault is now asking for a better distribution of asylum seekers in the country, reimbursement of expenses made by Quebec to welcome them, as well as better knowledge of French for temporary foreign workers established in Quebec.
The approach, which will be announced on Friday, is part of the “nationalism of results” that the Coalition Avenir Québec says it is leading. “Ideally, Quebec would have more resources and skills to better promote its culture, integrate its immigration and ensure the services it provides to Quebecers. There are important historical demands there, which we must not abandon,” we can read on the CAQ website.