The former premier of Quebec and former leader of the Parti Québécois, Lucien Bouchard, does not share the opinion of the current leader of the political party, Paul St-Pierre-Plamondon, on the subject of the “economic leap” that It is possible to anticipate whether the province proclaims its independence.
“Sovereignty is viable, but it’s going to be difficult. Get ready there. Following the accession to sovereignty, how will currency markets react? What will happen to the Canadian dollar? Nobody knew it, but we know it’s going to be chaotic,” he declared in an interview with the current Prime Minister, François Legault.
At least that’s what emerges from a new episode of the podcast series Hello everybody from the head of the Coalition Avenir Québec where he interviews personalities of his choice in an intimate face-to-face format.
The episode, published Tuesday, where François Legault meets the man who recruited him into politics more than 25 years ago, Lucien Bouchard, was recorded on October 23, said the Prime Minister’s office.
That day, the Parti Québécois presented its budget for the first year of a sovereign Quebec, a document inspired by the same exercise that François Legault had previously carried out when he himself was a member of the political party under the orders by Lucien Bouchard.
Optimistic, the current head of the political party, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, then affirmed that we “can reasonably anticipate an economic leap following the independence of Quebec”.
Although he doesn’t specify in the podcast Hello everybody if he comments on this issue, Lucien Bouchard shares a very different point of view.
“ [À l’époque] I said: it’s going to be difficult, there’s going to be turbulence,” he recalls, among other things, about the period preceding the second Quebec referendum, in 1995. I said these things and then all the people didn’t find it very very clever, but I believe it is not a philosophical operation of governing. »
Note that this enthusiasm from the former politician who also co-founded the Bloc Québécois does not take its source from a question about sovereignty, but rather from a question from François Legault as to whether he had “found it hard, governing “.
The current Prime Minister of Quebec also reacted to the publication of the new budget for year one of the Parti Québécois by affirming that the ascension of Quebec to the status of a country would lead to “sacrifices” for Quebecers, a difficult situation. which could last for years.