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For a bill touted as the “law of laws,” the Legault government’s proposed constitution for Quebec has so far resulted in the spilling of surprisingly little ink. Article content That might be about to change.
With his approval ratings in the basement, the Quebec premier focuses on policies he seems to think will score much-needed political points.
It’s customary when a new cabinet minister is named for the stakeholders affected by their portfolio to congratulate the fresh appointee and express how much they’re looking forward to working together. After the naming of Geneviève Guilbault as Quebec’s new municipal affairs minister in a cabinet shuffle Wednesday, perhaps mayors and councillors from Montreal to Mirabel can be spared this...
As François Legault’s hotly anticipated testimony drew to a close around noon Tuesday at the public inquiry probing massive cost overruns in the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec’s rocky digital transformation project, Commissioner Denis Gallant magnanimously invited Quebec’s premier to have the last word. Read more at: https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article1140058.html#storylink=cpy...
Before E.M.’s sexual encounter with five members of Canada’s 2018 gold-medal-winning world junior hockey team in Room 209 of the Delta Armouries Hotel in London, Ont., a 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by three players in her bedroom back in 2016, including two teammates from the Drummondville Voltigeurs. Read more at: https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article1069221.html#storylink=cpy...
When Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry dispatched investigators to Dawson and Vanier colleges last December, her stated aim was to ensure the “physical and psychological well-being of students” was being respected on those campuses amid strife over the Israel-Hamas war. Read more at: https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article1026170.html#storylink=cpy
Pierre Poilievre's polarizing rhetoric will do nothing to improve cohabitation with the vulnerable in Montreal. But downplaying citizens concerns as Mayor Valérie Plante's administration has been doing is not helpful, either.