The Minister of Housing, France-Élaine Duranceau, should make amends, apologize and take responsibility, after being splashed by controversy over an email sent by her team.
This is what the Parti Québécois demanded on Monday, following an error made by the minister’s office last week.
The firm then responded to a request from The Canadian Press with an internal email, where the communications manager wondered whether he should ignore the journalist’s request, or deliver a response that means nothing.
“RELAUNCH. Do I ghost her again? Otherwise, general response which does not respond to say that Housing is a priority for our government?”, we could read.
A government communications official later admitted that it was an error and that staff did not really know how to handle the request for information from The Canadian Press.
The manager assured that never Mme Duranceau was not involved in the discussions concerning the processing of this request.
In a message on the X platform, formerly Twitter, the minister affirmed that she took the exercise of responding to journalists very seriously.
(2/2) Moreover, access to housing is a priority for our government. As July 1 approaches, we announced $7.8 million to fund housing search assistance services which are there to support citizens seeking rehousing.
— France-Élaine Duranceau (@FEDuranceauCAQ) April 27, 2024
PQ MP Joël Arseneau judges that the email from the minister’s office demonstrated exactly the opposite.
In an interview with The Canadian Press on Monday, the MP argued that the minister should apologize instead of falling into language.
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