Mr. Speaker, last Friday, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs said that he intended to send some of his officials to Saint-Jean to negotiate an agreement on the basis of the proposal put forth by the mayor of Saint-Jean.
Yesterday, using as a pretext what Quebec's intergovernmental affairs minister had said, the minister reversed himself and refused to delegate his officials to resume negotiations today, as planned.
In view of the urgency of the decisions the staff and their families will have to make and since everyone has agreed to resume discussions on the basis of the mayor's proposal, how does the minister explain his latest about-face, his refusal to send officials to Saint-Jean to resume negotiations today, as he had promised?