Quebec’s parliamentary session ends with quest to reclaim powers from Ottawa
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Quebec's national assembly winter session is coming to a close. Amid all the controversy of the past few months, Premier François Legault says there are things to celebrate.
Quebec’s national assembly winter session is coming to a close.
It was marked with issues in the health-care system such as longer and longer wait times, crumbling infrastructure exemplified by the Île-aux-Tourtes bridge and tense relations with Ottawa over the number of asylum seekers entering the province.
Amid all the controversy of the past few months, Quebec Premier François Legault says there are things to celebrate.
“I want to celebrate the economic results we’ve had since five years; it’s incredible that we did a lot better than the rest of Canada. I’m talking about the GDP per capita, I’m talking about the average salary,” Legault said during his end-of-session press conference.
Legault says he wants more wins.
The premier announced he is setting up a committee of experts that will look into what powers Quebec can reclaim from Ottawa.
The Quebec Liberal party calls the move a distraction from this session’s bad record and “picking up another fight with the feds.”
“Where’s the beef? Where are the results? Nothing. Failures,” interim Liberal leader Marc Tanguay said.
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