Legault still doesn't know the price of a 4 1/2 in Montreal

François Legault still doesn't know the price of a 4 1/2 apartment in Montreal, three years after getting bogged down on the issue.

François Legault still doesn't know the price of a 4 1/2 apartment in Montreal, three years after getting bogged down on the issue.

The premier was responding on Wednesday to Official Opposition Leader Marc Tanguay, as part of the Executive Council's study of the department's budget appropriations.

In the midst of the housing crisis, Tanguay asked him if he knew the price of a 4 1/2 apartment in the metropolis. Legault then turned to the senior civil servants accompanying him.

When the government's secretary general, Dominique Savoie, provided him with a figure, he rejected it, saying that the real price was probably higher. "We'll keep digging," he said.

"I'm completely surprised that you and your whole team aren't able to say how much a 4 1/2 costs in Montreal," Tanguay said.

"We'll get back to you. I don't have the exact information and I don't want to take the chance of being wrong, even by $100 a month, because you're going to take advantage of it," Legault told his Liberal opponent.

"The blow just landed in itself, I won't need to add to it. The point is made," Tanguay said.