Prime Minister François Legault avoided saying that this referendum was stolen as these were referendum supporters Yes to sovereignty.

In the House of Representatives, Minister Jean-François Roberge, responsible for democratic institutions, passed a motion a assembly orderin order for the DGE to disclose the documents and testimonies of the Grenier Commission, which was responsible for investigating this matter in 2007.

The result of the 1995 sovereignty referendum was very close, something the sovereignty camp has often blamed its opponents for NO Independence for circumventing campaign spending rules in referendums.

At a press conference, Mr Legault said he wanted to Let’s shed light on everythinghowever, avoided claiming that the referendum had been stolen.

” We don’t have all the information yet. If we have all the information I can answer your question. »

Two weeks ago, the Parti Québécois (PQ) unanimously passed a motion asking the CEO to disclose everything.

But the CEO, Jean-François Blanchet, had made it clear that the motion tabled by the PQ would not allow that expected full disclosure of testimonies and documents referred to.

Among other things, he mentioned the harmful character that certain documents may still contain.

That’s what the CEO said It was not so clear the arrangement of the National AssemblyParliamentary Prime Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette summed up at a press conference together with Mr Legault.

The motion we submitted is clearly formulated as an order of the National Assemblyhe explained.

In fact, she ordered to the CEO of to disclose and publish all testimonies and documents of the Grenier Commission as soon as possible.

Finally, the text even specifies that this motion was an order of the Assembly.

Let us recall that on October 30, 1995 the NO to sovereignty won by a narrow margin of 50.58% versus 49.42% for the camp Yes.

Sovereignists accused their Federalist opponents of cheating during the referendum campaign by failing to meet the funding ceiling allocated to the two camps under Quebec law.

The Grenier Commission

In 2006, the DGE hired retired judge Bernard Grenier to investigate allegations of illegal funding of the No Camp. The Commission presented a report in 2007.

He appreciated that in his report published in 2007 Approximately $500,000 of Option Canada’s regulated costs [le programme et la société] have been carried out and which have not been approved and declared.

No fewer than 90 witnesses were questioned behind closed doors and 4,500 documents were submitted as evidence. But the whole thing catches your eye Order of Secrecy, Non-Communication and Non-Disclosure of Evidencewithout time limit, held by Commissioner Grenier.

Bernard Grenier justified his order by saying that this was the case We are sensitive to the warning voiced by some about the risk of damaging the reputation of people who have worked in good faith for the No cause after 11 or 12 years.

He also said that he had a hard time making the documents accessible at the time: This would create the prejudices and injustices that we would have liked to avoid by acting behind closed doors.

PQ boss Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has been fighting for weeks to unravel the secret of the Grenier Commission. In his opinion, the population must know the truth about what happened during the referendum campaign.

He believes that Commissioner Grenier played politics in issuing his order.

Why did we have an eternity ordinance to bury all documents and testimonies forever? he had asked in a press crowd. Let’s agree that we are in politics, that it is politics.