(Quebec) The renegotiation of the Churchill Falls agreement with Newfoundland and Labrador gave rise to a “show full of contempt” towards Quebec, deplores Paul St-Pierre Plamondon who believes that the Legault government has “embellished » the fallout.
Posted at 12:12 p.m.
« [Pensons] at Northvolt. François Legault wants to make deals and then pretend that it is a historic moment. It should not be that his desire to present dealsin particular to try to relaunch itself on the political level causes harm to Quebec in the long term,” launched the leader of the Parti Québécois on Monday.
The PQ leader held a press briefing at the National Assembly to discuss the agreement concluded Thursday between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. According to him, the Legault government offers an “embellished” version of the benefits for Quebec. According to his team’s calculations, the cost that Quebec will pay for the kilowatt hour is underestimated.
The Parti Québécois is asking that the agreement be examined by parliamentarians after the holidays. “We have an agreement worth billions and billions and which binds us until 2075. I do not sense, on Hydro-Québec’s side, a desire to hide anything. So, we are simply asking that we be able to study it in a parliamentary committee,” he said.
“We fear that this is a negotiation which, all in all, is not that profitable for Quebec,” believes Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon.
Furthermore, the Parti Québécois accuses François Legault of being “the gravedigger” of Quebec’s historic claims on the borders of Labrador.
“Great discomfort to see Quebec being so mishandled in terms of respect and historical inaccuracy. Great discomfort to see this lack of respect,” added Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon, referring to the moment when Prime Minister Andrew Furey tore up the 1969 agreement at a press conference.
“I found it relatively humiliating for Quebec to see this spectacle full of contempt for an agreement that was perfectly valid. While we ignore the flight of Labrador through a decision of the Privy Council [de Londres] which makes no sense, almost a century ago,” lamented Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
