Mr. Speaker, the time has finally come to reply to the federalist demagogues who keep telling anyone who will listen that the political climate in Quebec has investors fleeing. It is just not true.
There are no less than 1,500 subsidiaries of foreign multinational companies in Quebec. For 1996 alone, approximately 100 new investment projects, totalling over $2.3 billion, were announced.
I could read you dozens of statements made by foreign investors who say they are not worried about the political climate in Quebec. Here is what one of many investors, namely the president of Intrawest, said “I am not concerned at all by the political climate as I announce $500 million in investments at Mont Tremblant”.
Quebec is attractive to foreign investors, and there is nothing the federalists can do about it.