(Joliette) PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon changes his game plan, and will fly to the Magdalen Islands on Monday to observe the damage caused by the storm Fiona.
Posted at 9:45 a.m.
Chalets blown up by the gusts, gutted by the waves; submerged roads; substantially eroded and damaged land evacuated: the Madelinots suffered from the post-tropical storm that hit their archipelago hard on Saturday.
Faced with this damage, Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon and his team changed the calendar of the PQ campaign and decided to make an impromptu jump to the Islands on Monday, at the same time as the chief caquiste François Legault. He will be back in Montreal the same evening to participate in a local debate where he will cross swords with the outgoing CAQ MP for Camille-Laurin (formerly Bourget), Richard Campeau, where Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon is trying to be elected.
The Parti Québécois and the Coalition avenir Québec are neck and neck in the projections of the Qc125 site, based on recent polls. The outgoing PQ member, Joël Arseneau, is trying to be re-elected while the mayor of the archipelago Jonathan Lapierre wears the colors of the CAQ.
Not all parties have changed their game plan. Conservative leader Éric Duhaime will not go: “We are in constant communication with our Madelinot candidate, but we are not going to travel to see the damage,” said Cédric Lapointe, Mr. Duhaime’s press secretary.
Liberal leader Dominique Anglade’s team is evaluating the options for traveling to the Magdalen Islands before October 3.
With the collaboration of Mylène Crête and Fanny Lévesque