The Liberals would have dreamed of seeing the MP for Saint-Laurent, Marwah Rizqy, run for the leadership of their party. She managed to destabilize the Minister of Education, Bernard Drainville, to the point where he left the Blue Room in the middle of an arrest. AT
We were in despair to hear a member of the PLQ say that Quebec should not behave like a “yes-yes-yes” vis-à-vis Ottawa. Monsef Derraji (Nelligan) also denounced the omission of temporary immigrant workers in the calculation of the immigration thresholds proposed by the Legault government. This genuine nationalism seems to herald its entry into the race. AT
Alejandra Zaga Mendez (Verdun) could deserve the rookie of the year award, even if disconnecting the autopilot of the Minister of the Environment, Benoit Charette, seems to be impossible. After the agreement with the Horne Foundry, she denounced the odiousness of “learning in the news that you are going to be chased from your home by a multinational that has been poisoning you and your children for years”. B
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon can legitimately claim much of the credit for the PQ’s rise in the polls. His motion forced the entire deputation, including the PLQ, to demand the disclosure of documents relating to the secret operations carried out by Option Canada during the 1995 referendum campaign. B
Guillaume Cliche-Rivard accomplished a sort of feat by wresting the stronghold of Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne from the PLQ. The Minister of Immigration now has in front of her a true specialist in the matter. B
Vincent Marissal demanded the resignation of QMJHL president Gilles Courteau, who had misled parliamentarians by declaring that he had no knowledge of any act of violence committed during initiations in the circuit he led. Even Minister Christian Dubé hailed the contribution of the MNA for Rosemont in the debate on health reform. B
Manon Massé demonstrated both her abnegation and her political realism by deciding to give up her position as spokesperson, which no one would have challenged, in order to better devote herself to her constituents in Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques. B
Another potential candidate for the succession of Dominique Anglade, André Fortin (Pontiac) always does his homework well, but he does not manage to pierce the layer of Teflon with which the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, seems covered. B-
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is no longer considered by Prime Minister Legault as his main adversary. He had to apologize for declaring that the Dubé reform was the ” wet dream by former minister Gaétan Barrette. Leaving its MPs free to determine how much of the MP pay rise they wanted to keep muddied QS’s message. VS
Ruba Ghazal (Mercier), who is seeking the succession of Manon Massé, has done nothing to restore peace in the sovereignist family by launching, to the address of the leader of the Bloc Québécois, Yves-François Blanchet: “It’s not just immigration, that’s all the talk about Quebec, the Quebec nation, about a vision of Quebec that I don’t like. » VS-
That Frédéric Beauchemin (Marguerite-Bourgeoys) can only consider entering the race for the leadership of the PLQ says a lot about the high opinion of the idea he has of himself. His somewhat monotonous speeches in the National Assembly suggest that he should first learn his skills. VS-
His colleague from Acadie, André A. Morin, who proposed that the word “woman” be replaced by “person” in the bill on surrogate mothers, was rejected by a unanimous motion of the National Assembly. VS-
Jennifer Maccarone (Westmount–Saint-Louis) demonstrated very well the limits that the PLQ will encounter in its nationalist ambitions when she denounced the “unnamed rigidity” and the “lack of humanism” of the Legault government. She criticized the latter for having asked for the departure of the adviser to the fight against Islamophobia appointed by Justin Trudeau, Amira Elghawaby, who had accused Quebecers of cultivating an “anti-Muslim feeling”. The National Assembly finally unanimously demanded the resignation of the adviser. D
The president
The appointment of Nathalie Roy as President of the National Assembly had left many skeptics. She was not believed to be capable of ensuring order in parliamentary debates, which were sometimes very difficult to supervise. So far, M.me Roy was absolutely up to it. AT
P.S. There were omissions in my ministerial bulletin published on Saturday.
The $100 million in emergency aid announced by Agriculture Minister André Lamontagne and aimed at mitigating the damage caused by inflation to farmers was welcomed with relief, even if the pork industry remains at the mercy of international markets. B
Isabelle Charest had her ears pulled before calling QMJHL president Gilles Courteau to a parliamentary committee. She was also slow to acknowledge that the circuit was “osclerotic”, adding however that the government could not do much about it. VS-