Health transfers, single tax report, immigration powers, … The federalism of the government of the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) has not allowed it to make any substantial gain in its relations with Ottawa, denounces the Parti Québécois.
To illustrate the argument, the PQ caravan literally crossed the Quebec border Thursday morning, to get to Ottawa.
“Do we want to remain tenants or are we finally ready to become landlords? “Launched Paul St-Pierre Plamondon during a press briefing in front of the House of Commons.
The election, he said, gives us the choice: to continue in the federalism of the CAQ or to turn to sovereignty.
To his right, two large paintings listed 24 “François Legault requests” to Ottawa, all of which were rejected. “In baseball, when you hit 0 in 21, you may not have business in major league baseball,” argued the PQ leader, crossing out each of the claims in red pencil.
A speech from 2015
Application of Bill 101 to federally chartered companies, $6 billion in health transfers, preponderance of Quebec environmental laws, etc. : Most of the demands are taken from a speech given by Legault in 2015 during the General Council of his party entitled “The new nationalist project inside Canada”.
“I appeal to all Quebec nationalists. I invite them to rally around a project that will allow Quebec to move forward and assert itself within Canada,” François Legault declared at the time.
“For too long the Parti Québécois has claimed to have a monopoly on pride and the Liberal Party on prosperity. This illusion was shattered when both proved their respective inability to get Quebec out of the constitutional impasse and to make it catch up with its economic backwardness,” claimed the man who became prime minister.
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