PLQ chiefdom: all candidates are open to gas pipelines and pipelines

With the Price War of Donald Trump, all the candidates for the chiefdom of the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) were open to various degrees to projects of gas pipeline or oil pipeline like GNL Quebec or East energy.

For former federal minister Pablo Rodriguez, it is however necessary to comply with environmental standards and social acceptability. You have to be open to all this today. There is a situation that has changed fundamentally is that the United States we knew, this great friend we had, no longer existshe said during the first debate of the chiefdom on Saturday in Laval.

According to the former president of the Council of employers Karl Blackburn, we must aim for independence in the field of energy. In a context where 75 % of our oil that is used here transit by the United States, in a context where almost the entire natural gas passed through the United States […]it is extremely important to tend towards energy independencehe said.

Although favorable to the idea of ​​studying such projects, the ex-CEO From the Federation of Chambers of Commerce Charles billion has put a downside. When you ask politicians: “Do you agree or not with a project?”, The project must exist. Right now, we are asked to [nous] Pronounce on projects that do not exist or that no longer exist.

Tax lawyer Marc Bélanger, he argued that the government must send a clear message that it is ready to receive projects.

And there, he will have promoters who will raise his hand, who will spend millions of dollars to come and present projectshe argued.

It is the farmer of Beauce Mario Roy who was the firmest on this subject, arguing that Canadian sovereignty must be protected against the United States. The energy project is and the Saguenay oil pipeline [doivent] to be put forward and I undertake that it is put forward as soon as I came to powerhe said.

Quebec refused to authorize the GNL Quebec project in Saguenay in 2021. Ottawa did the same in 2022.

The energy project is aimed at building an oil pipeline to transport oil from Alberta to New Brunswick. This project died in 2017.

Carbon purse

Mario Roy has also spoken so that Quebec withdraws from the carbon market as soon as possible. It is a question of being able to compete with other provinces and against the United Stateshe argued.

Questioned on this subject after the debate, the other candidates all said themselves in favor of maintaining Quebec in the carbon market, with the exception of Marc Bélanger. Before saying to the subject, I want to know if you get into it or if you get richer with the carbon scholarshiphe explained during a press scrum after the verbal confrontation.

This first debate in a series of six between the aspiring liberal chiefs was done without too much flammages and fundamental ideological differences.

A second debate, in English that one, will take place Sunday in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

The election of the new liberal chief will take place during a congress which will take place on June 14.