Former Quebec premier and former leader of the Parti Québécois, Lucien Bouchard, does not share the opinion of the current leader of the political party, Paul St-Pierre-Plamondon, on the issue of the “economic jump” that is possible to predict whether the province proclaimed their independence.
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“Sovereignty is possible, but it will be difficult. Get ready there. How will foreign exchange markets react after accessing sovereignty? What is happening to the Canadian dollar? Nobody knew, but we know it will be chaotic,” he explained in an interview with current Prime Minister François Legault.
At least that’s what emerges from a new episode of the podcast series “Bonjour tout le monde” by coalition leader Avenir Québec, in which he interviews personalities of his choice in an intimate face-to-face format.
The episode released on Tuesday, in which François Legault meets the man who recruited him into politics more than 25 years ago, Lucien Bouchard, was recorded on October 23, the prime minister’s office said.
On that day, the Parti Québécois presented its budget for the first year of a sovereign Quebec, a document inspired by the same exercise that François Legault had previously carried out when he himself was a member of the political party on the orders of Lucien Bouchard.
Optimistically, the current leader of the political party, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, then reiterated that “we can reasonably expect an economic jump after Quebec’s independence.”
Although he doesn’t state on the Hello Everyone podcast whether he has an opinion on the subject, Lucien Bouchard has a very different point of view.
“ [À l’époque] I said: It’s going to be difficult, there’s going to be turbulence,” he recalls, among other things, the time before the second Quebec referendum in 1995. I said these things, and then everyone didn’t think it was particularly clever, but I believe that this is not a philosophical government operation. »
Note that this enthusiasm from the former politician, who was also a co-founder of the Bloc Québécois, does not originate in a question about sovereignty, but rather in a question from François Legault about whether he “found it difficult to govern”.
The current Quebec premier also responded to the release of the new budget for the first year of the Parti Québécois by reiterating that Quebec’s rise to national status would involve “sacrifices” for Quebecers, a difficult situation that will last for years.