The heads of passage to Everyone speaks about it

The leaders of the five main parties were on the show Everybody talks about it at Radio-Canada on Sunday evening to answer questions from Guy A. Lepage. Summary of their remarks.

Legault puts it back against Duhaime

François Legault expressed no regret for having compared Éric Duhaime to Donald Trump. He even gave it back. He argued that the Statistical Institute of Quebec has shown that excess mortality in Quebec was lower than elsewhere, “because we had more severe instructions”. “Mr. Duhaime says that these are fake news, that these are not real figures! “, he launched, accusing the conservative leader of not having been “solidarity” during the pandemic. He failed in his responsibilities as party leader, he said.

Anglade still closely followed by French

Dominique Anglade has again had to clarify his position on the protection of French as his political party voted against the reform of Law 101 (Law 96) of the Legault government. Is it more important to save the Anglophone vote or to save the French? asked Guy A. Lepage. “Safeguarding French, defending French and protecting French will always be necessary in Quebec, we are 2% of North America, we will never be able to say to ourselves that we must stop being vigilant relation to the French language,” said Mr.^me Anglade, who again accused the leader of the Coalition avenir Québec of “dividing” Quebecers on the language issue.

St-Pierre Plamondon wants to be Leader of the Official Opposition

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon warns Quebecers who wish to “give absolute powers to François Legault”, and calls for there to be “strong opposition”. “I would like to be a constructive official opposition,” said the PQ leader. He undertakes, if the Parti Québécois forms the main opposition party in the National Assembly, to be constructive and to avoid division. He thus admits that he has little chance of forming the next government. He also said he expected to rise in future polls, to join “the other opposition parties”. “All our indicators tell us that,” he said.

Duhaime demands an apology

The leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec did not digest being compared to former American President Donald Trump by François Legault. According to Mr. Duhaime, Mr. Legault’s remarks “are not worthy of a head of state”. “What was your goal?” he asked. We had a campaign that was going relatively well. Why don’t you apologize? It was moved. I am not Donald Trump, and you know it! “, he launched.

“You are denying the facts,” retorted François Legault, alluding to the number of deaths caused by COVID-19. He pleaded that the sanitary measures had saved lives. Éric Duhaime attacked the chief caquist a few times. At the end of the show, host Guy A. Lepage asked if the pandemic was over. “I hope so, but unfortunately, I fear that, if it is not the Conservative Party that wins on October 3, it will continue,” replied Éric Duhaime, which made the other leaders react and the ‘assistance. “It’s the measures,” he corrected himself.

Nadeau-Dubois puts a calculator online in response to “orange taxes”

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois once again defended himself on Sunday against “orange taxes”, according to the expression used by François Legault to describe the Québec solidaire tax program. After his move to Everybody talks about it, Québec solidaire has put a “calculator” online where citizens can measure how much money they would receive from the government if Mr. Nadeau-Dubois became prime minister. The left-wing party once again explains the “bonus-malus” it wishes to impose on the purchase of new “ultra-polluting” vehicles, a subject that has been following Mr. Nadeau-Dubois for a few weeks. He also avoided answering the question of the host, Guy A. Lepage, who asked him why his political party did not form an alliance with the Parti Québécois. The leaders of the two independence parties again defended certain common ideas on Sunday, particularly in the environment.