In 10 years, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois has gone from the streets to the head table of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal (CCMM).
On April 20, 2012, at the CCMM podium, Premier Jean Charest invited “GND” — and the students who were protesting against the increase in tuition fees under the sound bombs around the Palais des congrès de Montréal — to seize the opportunities jobs offered by the Plan Nord. “To those who knocked on our door this morning, we could offer them a job, and in the North as much as possible,” he had launched in front of the laughing business people gathered inside the building.
The former figurehead of the student movement did not make his life in the North. Ten years after Printemps érable, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois crisscrossed Quebec to convince Quebecers to give control of the Quebec state to the left-wing party Québec solidaire (QS).
The aspiring Prime Minister Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois pleaded, before the CCMM Thursday noon, for a “green economy” seeing it as “the cement of prosperity” of Quebec.
Moreover, QS’s plan to fight against climate change, which bears the title Vision 2030, found a certain echo within Montreal Inc., indicated the president of the CCMM, Michel Leblanc.
“There is an area where Québec solidaire, from the point of view of the business community, had the proposals which were the… I don’t know if it’s the best… but in any case where we recognized the expertise of Québec solidaire , and it’s about the environment. So what it basically shows is that your message at the level of urgency [climatique]your message at the level of challenges and probably solutions [de QS] are talking about in the business community,” he noted.
Mr. Leblanc also “makes[u] tribute” to QS’s proposal to raise Quebec’s immigration thresholds — from 50,000 to 60,000-80,000 immigrants per day. “I render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. There are other cases on which we are rather uncomfortable… “, he dropped, arousing some laughter in the assistance.
During a “talk”, the President of the Chamber of Commerce notably asked Mr. Nadeau-Dubois where the projects for the nationalization of sectors of the economy “stop” or even the new taxes in the plans of QS — claiming to have counted 11 new taxes in the solidarity program. “There may be more,” he said. “We spent a lot of time in this campaign talking about the fate of people who have $2 million, and who will have to pay $19.23 a week with the Quebec solidaire tax measure, and a lot less time talking hundreds of thousands of seniors arriving at retirement with not a penny in their pocket,” retorted Mr. Nadeau-Dubois, speaking of “ambition” and “rigor”; of “prudence” and “vision”.
The co-spokesperson for QS also underlined the need for a future solidarity government to have “the means to [ses] ambition”. “Governing is about making choices. »