End of difficult session for François Legault’s CAQ government
Posted June 10, 2023 5:54 pm.
The Quebec parliamentary session that ended was particularly trying for Premier François Legault, and ministers Geneviève Guilbault and Simon Jolin-Barrette.
The two ministers have been embroiled in several controversies over the past few months, and the premier was keen to defend them at a press conference to take stock of the parliamentary session on Friday.
Guilbault found herself at the heart of her government’s failures – fiasco at the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) and abandonment of the third link flagship project for Québec-Lévis.
Jolin-Barrette meanwhile appointed a friend as a judge, without taking care to point out the potential conflict of interest. He changed the funding of the Conseil de la magistrature, which only fuelled his conflict with Chief Justice Lucie Rondeau.
The session also saw Premier Legault in crisis management mode. In addition to the tragedy in a daycare in Laval, and the pedestrians struck in Amqui, Legault had to manage the floods in Baie-Saint-Paul and now, the forest fires.
—This report by La Presse Canadienne was first published in French and translated by CityNews
