Bulletins of the week at the National Assembly: Nathalie Roy and the return of hiding places to the presidency

Here are the elected officials or political party leaders who stood out for the right or wrong reasons over the past week.

Nathalie Roy, CAQ

The one who directs the debates at the Salon Bleu has caused great disappointment. Although she said after becoming president that she would have “nothing to hide,” she refused to disclose her detailed bills. His predecessor François Paradis had brought the institution out of darkness. We don’t want to go back there.

Haroun Bouazzi, QS

It’s an emotional subject. He went too far by asserting on X that Israel “started a genocidal process” and that the CAQ made us complicit. In a press briefing to demand the closure of the Quebec office in Tel Aviv, his colleague Ruba Ghazal admitted: “We do not yet know if there is one [génocide]”.

Ian Lafrenière, CAQ

Through personalized contacts, he gained enough trust from the Innu community of Pessamit for the government to obtain a two-year framework agreement. Hydro-Québec could develop wind potential there, in a context of energy needs. Rare good news for the caquistes.

Monsef Derraji, PLQ

He led the charge and rallied other opposition parties behind the demand to lower the blood alcohol level allowed for driving to 0.05. Geneviève Guilbault was not able to explain why her government is opposed to the proposal, supported by CAA-Quebec and studies from the INSPQ.

IN BULK

Fitz has gas in the tank

Like Denis Coderre, who deplores Régis Labeaume’s attack on him, Pierre Fitzgibbon believes that there is no age to be relevant in politics. When asked if he felt he still fully belonged, as a sixty-year-old, he smiled toothily: “I’m quite agile, I still have a lot of energy.”

Takes on Geneviève

Etienne Grandmont asked the minister to identify a collective transportation project initiated by the CAQ in progress. Geneviève Guilbault named the extension of the blue line, launched however under the PLQ. “I-NI-TIÉ”, insisted the solidarity, and she had to fall back on highway widenings for reserved lanes…