(Lachute) If Éric Duhaime is unable to make a connection between the storm Fiona and climate change is that climatoscepticism “is alive and well”, launched Dominique Anglade on Saturday.
Posted at 5:30 p.m.
The leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec, Éric Duhaime, said on Saturday that it is “hazardous to begin to associate the climate” with the storm. Fiona falling on the Magdalen Islands.
“He said that? I don’t know what to tell you… Climatoscepticism exists. He is alive and well, ”reacted the liberal leader, Dominique Anglade, with sarcasm.
“It’s not a storm that announces a change,” said the leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec earlier. “You have to be very careful,” he said. There have always been storms. There will always be. It’s the frequency that will change something, but whether or not this storm is the result of climate change, we have to put a big damper. »
Dominique Anglade disagrees. “There are plenty of events that occur one after the other, whether it’s the floods – we saw it a few weeks ago, the metro which was invaded by water –, the heat that we had this summer, the forest fires… I don’t know what more we need to understand that everything is linked, that everything has consequences, ”she added during a press scrum. .
“If we are not able to make a connection between what is currently happening in the Islands and the climate, I do not know what to tell you,” continued the Liberal leader, who took a walkabout in Lachute on Saturday. .
In its electoral platform, the Conservative Party of Quebec recognizes the existence of climate change. Its leader, however, refuses to put forward a target for reducing greenhouse gases.