It is clear that the PCQ has a special positionMr Duhaime continued in an interview on Tuesday afternoon. He met me for an hour and a half; he wouldn’t do that at the culinary partyhe started.

Mr Legault is holding a series of meetings with opposition party leaders this week to hold discussions. He strove to include Mr Duhaime, who did not elect an MP to the National Assembly.

In addition, the doors of Parliament remained completely closed PCQ since the October 3 elections, in which François Legault’s coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) won a supermajority.

Mr. Duhaime still claims an office in the assembly and permission to hold press conferences there.

Although he doesn’t expect to suddenly gain access to the assembly, Mr Duhaime sees Tuesday’s meeting as a strong gesture of recognition from the Prime Minister.

” We are the only ones who don’t have elected members and we were invited, why? Because we represent 530,000 Quebecers. »

Mr Legault laughed when I told him that. […] He could only nod. […] He couldn’t tell me that we didn’t have special status. He invited me, underlined Mr Duhaime. The exercise, heartfelt, constructivecould also be repeated regularlyAccording to him.

The Conservative leader said he discussed several issues with Mr Legault, from the need to diversify our energy sources to private health to tax cuts and the Quebec-Lévis third link.

He reminded him, for example, that Conservatives support hydrocarbon exploitation and personal health, but oppose the idea of ​​diving into the Generations Fund to fund tax cuts. .

Mr. Legault would have shown himself attentive. The day before, the parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire (QS), Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, also welcomed thisListen of the head of government.

There are a few things that I think got him thinking, I saw in his nonverbalreported Éric Duhaime on Tuesday, adding that he would judge Mr Legault on the results.

Poilievre and the CCP

The former radio presenter also intends to continue his work within the PCQalthough he admits to having spoken to Canadian Conservative Party (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre, a friendjust before the holidays.

Mr. Poilievre is currently on a tour of Quebec to try to increase his party’s popularity. He would also try to recruit big names within the CAQ in view of the next elections, as political scientist Chantal Hébert reported earlier this week. Mr. Poilievre denied this information and called it false.

In an interview, Mr. Duhaime rules out the possibility of joining CCP. My energy, I intend to devote it to this PCQhe said.