The Parti Québécois has not even tabled its renewed “year one budget” before its leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, begins to imagine an independent Quebec. The PQ elected official says, among other things, he is in favor of an army and a currency specific to Quebec.
The PQ must table a “blue book” in the coming years, which will contain all the parameters of a sovereign Quebec. Asked Wednesday about possible diplomatic relations the day after a winning “Yes” referendum, Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon discussed a series of details that will have to be decided by members of the Parti Québécois in the coming months.
The Quebec currency, for example? “A priori, I am in favor of there being a transition plan which eventually leads to a properly so-called Quebec monetary policy,” he said.
“The issue, with equalization and then revenues from Alberta oil, is that, yes, there is an equalization payment, but there is an inflation of the Canadian currency which terribly harms our exports , therefore not having our own monetary policy…”, he explained.
What about a Quebec army?, asked a journalist. “Yes, now, subject to the parameters that will be defined within the Parti Québécois,” he said.
The PQ will present its renewed portrait of the finances of an independent Quebec next Monday.
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