By asserting that Quebec’s finances are doing better inside Canada than they would outside, François Legault reveals himself as the most “federalist of leaders” and compares himself to Jean Charest and Philippe Couillard, according to Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
This is what the leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ) said in a scrum on Monday, after the leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) told the To have to that Quebec has “a shortfall of $10 billion a year” vis-à-vis Canada.
“His political action aims to weaken, even try to extinguish the independence movement, said Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon on Monday. [M. Legault] knows very well that Quebec, financially and economically, has absolutely everything it needs to be viable. He therefore demonstrates that he is ready for all sorts of contortions to work against separatism, against the idea that we should be a country. »
This weekend, the PQ decided to postpone until after the election campaign the tabling of an economic and financial update on a sovereign Quebec — a “year one budget”. Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon justifies himself by asserting that inflation has changed things enough to force the party to go back to the drawing board. François Legault does not believe it.
“When I did the finances for a sovereign Quebec, we received $4 billion in equalization,” he said in an editorial interview with The duty. We get 13 billion [maintenant]. Are you surprised that the PQ, which had promised to file an update, did not do so? »
“There is no connection. […] That’s Mr. Legault who plays politics with that”, retorted “PSPP”, who again justifies having postponed his plan: “the calculations became [trop] away from the new reality. »
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