In a heated exchange in the National Assembly, the parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, accused the Prime Minister of being “overwhelmed” as an individual, by his time and by the environment. François Legault replies that the solidaries make old politics “past date”.
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“At the end of the week, there is a minister who confessed without embarrassment, he said that it was impossible for him to do his job. Unfortunately for the future of Quebec, this minister is the minister responsible for the fight against climate change,” said Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
He was thus reacting to a statement by Minister Benoît Charette this weekend in La Presse in which he said that it was impossible to do more for the reduction of GHGs, as the opposition in Quebec promise.
However, according to the most recent part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), humanity has less than three years to reverse the curve of greenhouse gas emissions.
“Quebec is capable of doing more. It will take ambition, courage, and it will take vision and above all it will take a government capable of looking a little further than the end of its nose, ”said GND.
“The Minister of the Environment has resigned in the face of the climate emergency. Is the Prime Minister going to ask his Minister of the Environment to resign, ”asked the solidarity.
“Past date”
This recrimination made the Prime Minister jump and try to correct the situation.
“The parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire knows very well that what he has just said is not correct. The Minister of the Environment has never said that it was impossible to do more in the environment”, first mentioned Mr. Legault, before counter-attacking and winking at Catherien Dorion who considers that the National Assembly and the democratic institutions of Quebec have passed dates.
“And what is the parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire doing? He asks for the resignation of a minister (…) Québec solidaire makes politics past date. »
Young people
According to GND, “it’s because of politicians like the Prime Minister, his fatalistic speeches, his loser speeches. The planet is burning and the Prime Minister justifies inaction. It’s irresponsible, ”he railed, arguing that young people who will learn about this exchange between him and the Prime Minister will understand why Quebec is failing in the fight against climate change.
François Legault immediately picked up the slack, believing that “young people who listen wonder why there is still old politics” like that of QS which is done in the National Assembly.
1950 and cloud shoveler
The parliamentary leader of QS, however, added a layer, going so far as to say that the Prime Minister was a person out of his time.
“Sometimes I listen to the Prime Minister talk about the environment and I think to myself that he would like to govern Quebec in the 1950s. It wouldn’t be a problem to put highways everywhere, he wouldn’t no problem with a debate on a tramway, there would be no problem with urban sprawl. The Prime Minister is outdated by science, he is outdated by his time. In fact, Mr. President, the Prime Minister is overwhelmed, period, ”he added.
In order to conclude the fiery debate, the Prime Minister praised the CAQ’s environmental record, while describing the solidarity workers as cloud shovelers.
“The CAQ government is proposing $56 billion in public transit investment and a $7.6 billion plan. What does Québec solidaire offer? $60 billion? $80 billion? $100 billion? The answer is that they have no damn idea. All they want is to be able to shovel clouds,” he said.
Reference-www.journaldequebec.com