Faced with the absence of a clear Canadian strategy to counter Donald Trump’s tariff threats, Quebec must negotiate directly with the Americans, according to Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
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Other provinces have already started to place their pawns, the PQ leader argued on Thursday. He asks François Legault to immediately set up a working group made up of academics, elected officials and members of civil society to prepare to defend our economy.
“When François Legault announces that he will be part of the trip of the premiers of the Canadian provinces on February 12, we must realize that in the absence of a common position between the provinces, it is essential to have Quebec demands in hand and a very clear Quebec strategy, which must be implemented now,” he argued, in a long publication on social networks.
The sovereignist leader recalled that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will attend President Trump’s inauguration ceremony and that she has already started negotiating pipeline projects.
François Legault’s good friend, Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford, is also already quite active in the American media and is already proposing bilateral projects to our southern neighbors.
“His counterparts from other provinces may well be on the same side of the table, but they are in fact negotiating based on interests that are not ours and which may be incompatible with ours: the main contradiction will not come from the other side , she will come from next door. The obvious risk for Quebec is that all the attention of these negotiations is on automobiles and oil, two sectors which concern us very little, and that subjects vital to Quebec are treated in a secondary manner or not even at all. at all, leading us to tariffs in these sectors,” fears PSPP.
Nothing to improve the fate of aluminum, wood and Quebec SMEs if the future occupant of the White House carries out his threats.
More details to come.
