It is clear that Mark Carney will be elected Prime Minister of Canada, according to Yves-François Blanchet. With this in mind, the chief of the Quebec Bloc invited Quebecers on the evening of Easter Sunday, “not to put all their eggs in the same basket”.
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It was the joke he launched, during his visit to Everyone talks about itjust over a week before the federal elections.
During the campaign, Yves-François Blanchet believes that it has seen the voters return to the Quebec Bloc, even if the various polls always provide that political party will lose several deputies.
“People have associated Mr. Trump Mr. Hairy. They therefore dismissed it. […] People are convinced that Pierre Hairy will not be elected Prime Minister, so they come back to the block, for the differences that the block bears, ”he analyzes.
According to him, a government led by the liberals with the block as an opposition “can walk”, if Mark Carney is in “good faith”. Blanchet recently blamed the outgoing Prime Minister about negotiations with the United States. He deplored precisely not to have consulted the opposition parties.
It seems that he spent the in the towel after holding the debate in English, after which the two men exchanged their telephone number.
“In six years with Justin Trudeau, we never had his cell phone number,” he rejoices ” [Mark Carney] is not unpleasant trade and it was long before we talk. All this is linked to his new reading of politics, ”he adds.
The Bloc Québécois will defend in the House of Commons the interests of Quebec on “language, secularism, immigration policy and the environment”, subjects on which Mark Carney is completely “uncompromising”, according to Yves-François Blanchet.
-The federal government, he says, has not come to the aid of the Quebec Bois d’Affaire industry, although it was affected by the taxation of customs duties by the United States. In return, Ottawa lent a hand to the Ontario automotive sector, blamed Mr. Blanchet.
“There will never be more liberal deputies in Quebec than there are any in Canada. When the interests of Canada are going to be different from those in Quebec, it will always be Ontario that will win, “he warns.
Always relevant
Yves-François Blanchet was called upon to comment on the attacks of his NPD counterpart, Jagmeet Singh. At the debate in French, he said that the block was “as useless as the monarchy”.
“The idea of the uselessness of the opposition, I find it extraordinary. First of all if being an opposition deputy, it is useless, the conservatives have been useless for 10 years and the NPD has always been useless, ”relativizes Mr. Blanchet.
“There are people who blame us, often the English, that we are just in Quebec. There is a certain hostility that comes with that. I rather tell them to do the same: do one, a block of the Maritimes, or a block from the West, ”he offers.
During the last mandate, the block obtained a commitment from the government “for the control of the number of immigrants” and an impact on the “transformation” of the laws on firearms and on broadcasting, he welcomes.
According to projections of the QC125 platform, 22 block deputies are elected in the next elections. The party would therefore lose 11 elected officials. Yves-François Blanchet refuses to comment on this drop in the polls.
“When it was impressive figures, higher than we had known for a long time, I refused to gargare with that,” he said.
At the end of the elections, the chief indicates “that he is not likely to put his resignation.
