Several hundred protesters rushed into the room where a lunchtime conference with Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon was taking place in Montreal on Friday.
About 700 guests gathered at the Palais des Congrès to listen to the minister who spoke about energy but also about global economic trends and the situation of Quebec in this context.
Mr. Fitzgibbon should also look at the performance of strategic sectors for Quebec’s economy such as the battery industry, aerospace and artificial intelligence.
Just before the conference, around 150 CSN union members burst into the room chanting “No profit in healthcare”.
They took the moment to denounce the famous CAQ Bill 15, also known as the Dubé Reform and named after the Minister of Health.
“If the CAQ wants to continue massacring the services, they clearly commit to it,” Dominique Daigneault, president of the CSN’s Metropolitan Montreal Central Council, told the Journal afterwards.
It’s important to get that message across, she said, to “open the CAQ’s ears to the dangers of privatization and centralization in healthcare.”
The event was interrupted for a good ten minutes under the motto “moderate solidarity” and “no profits for health”.
The guests, who came from companies such as Hydro-Québec, Pratt & Whitney, Énergir, FTQ, Ubisoft, Rio Tinto, KPMG and others, watched stoically as the protesters circled the great hall several times.
“The place of the private sector has shown its limitations, we are in the process of dismantling the public system that we gave ourselves in the 1970s into the pockets of private companies,” added the trade unionist in a brief interview.
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