Mr. Speaker, an incriminating letter written on Government of Quebec letterhead paper by PQ minister Jacques Baril was addressed to Pierre Béliveau, a stakeholder in Arthabaska's socioeconomic sector. PQ minister Baril wrote “You are an good example of those Quebecers—and there are still too many of them—who, in order to look good in the eyes of the federalists, will readily smear the Quebec government”.
For months now, Mr. Béliveau, a number of Quebec organizations and myself have been condemning the government of Lucien Bouchard for not following up on its commitments to students through Emploi-Québec.
Mr. Béliveau told La Presse “In an independent Quebec, I would not have received a letter from the separatist minister, I would have been picked up by the state police”.
The comments made by minister Baril in his letter concern all the files of Quebec students at Emploi-Québec. Mr. Baril is afraid to apologize in the National Assembly and he refuses to meet the Quebec media.