Mr. Speaker, during his visit yesterday to the Outaouais region, the Quebec minister responsible for restructuring tried to downplay the fact that 3,500 jobs in the region could be lost if Quebec becomes independent.
At a time when the PQ government is closing hospitals and reviewing the education budget so as to provide for the establishment of a university in Lévis, how can the minister claim that an independent Quebec will create 3,500 jobs in the parapublic sector just to help the region?
Outaouais residents do not believe these promises made by separatists, nor do Radio-Québec union members, who recently
had to ask the Bloc Quebecois leader to put pressure on the PQ government so that it would fulfil its commitments.