(Quebec) The Legault government even mentions a “ceiling price” among the more muscular actions it could take following the brutal increase of 20 cents per liter of gasoline at the pump two weeks ago.
Hot on the heels of the Parti Québécois (PQ), the Minister of the Economy and Energy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, suggested on Wednesday that his energy bill expected since last fall would include measures affecting the price of gasoline.
“What we can do, within our government, is transparency of information,” he said, in response to a question from PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
“We can indicate what we would like to see as a profit margin,” he continued without elaborating further.
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Economy and Energy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon suggested Wednesday that his long-awaited energy bill would contain measures affecting the price of gasoline.
In the press scrum after the question period, he was asked about the possibility of setting a ceiling price.
“We could do it,” he said, adding: “I don’t think it’s up to the government or the Minister of Energy to set the price of gasoline every week.”
Recommendations on this issue contained in a report he commissioned last fall on the disparities in gasoline prices between different regions could be implemented in the bill. He pledged to make the report fully public.
In addition, the Régie de l’énergie will soon be able to update information every Monday on the price of fuel at the pump, “so that people can determine where the slots are, where the places are where gasoline is least expensive.” expensive,” said the minister.