(Quebec) The Minister of the Environment, Benoit Charette, is “not the man for the job”, while his officials denounce political interference in the Northvolt file.
Posted at 1:18 p.m.
Updated at 2:06 p.m.
Patrice Bergeron
The Canadian Press
The official opposition reacted Tuesday to communications filed before the Superior Court, which reveal the pressure that civil servants were under to authorize the controversial battery factory project in Montérégie at full speed.
According to exchanges in the Teams messaging system, ministry analysts believed that the work was shoddy and that there was a lack of transparency.
“I haven’t felt that we have had a Minister of the Environment for the last six years,” declared Liberal Leader Marc Tanguay, in a press scrum Tuesday morning.
“He’s clearly not the man for the job. For us, he is not at all a good Minister of the Environment. »
But he refused to go so far as to ask for his resignation.
“It is up to François Legault to answer this question,” explained his colleague, MP Virginie Dufour, at his side. It was still him who made him minister and he still seems to be satisfied with his actions. »
