Former Quebec Prime Minister Jean Charest won his case against UPAC and the Quebec government, which has to pay him $385,000.

Interim Liberal leader Marc Tanguay believes the whole story had a negative impact on the Liberal brand. UPAC has questions to ask and faces a credibility problemhe said.

In 2021, Geneviève Guilbault, then Minister of Public Safety, waved the book PLQ Inc. in the Blue Room and provoked the ire of the former Liberal Prime Minister. I think it would have been good not to pan the booksaid Marc Tanguay.

The book focused in particular on allegations of illegal funding within the QLP.

This decision of the Superior Court of Quebec is related to Mr. Charest’s lawsuit against the government alleging unlawful disclosure of his personal information during an investigation by the Permanent Anti-Corruption Unit (UPAC).

Mr. Tanguay doesn’t think this story contributed to the party’s defeat in the last election, but he says it did it didn’t help his side.

Quebec Solidaire declined to say whether Jean Charest deserved an apology from theUPAC. I do not dispute the validity of the judgment. If theUPAC would like to apologize if it is up to the Quebecers that they have not fulfilled their missionsupported the group leader QAGabriel Nadeau-Dubois.

I don’t understand why the current government should apologizehe added.

The Parti Québécois (PQ) has decided to be more cautious. Matane-Matapédia MP Pascal Bérubé suggested that perhaps Mr Charest’s lawyers were listening carefully to what the elected officials were saying in Parliament this Wednesday morning.

When asked whether Mr Charest was now clear of any allegations or suspicions, Mr Bérubé replied: He’s not guilty, I have to say that.