Ask Premier Pauline Marois to explain husband Claude Blanchet’s ‘deal’ with FTQ, Liberals tell Quebe
MONTREAL — The Quebec Liberal Party is calling on Quebecers to stop Premier Pauline Marois anywhere they see her campaigning and ask her to explain the secret "deal" between her husband and leaders of the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec construction union.
"If Mrs. Marois doesn't want to answer our questions, I call on Quebecers today to ask Mrs. Marois every time they cross paths with (her) in a shopping centre, a business or a restaurant, 'What was the deal?' and why didn't she want her husband and her to explain themselves," Lise Thériault, the Liberal candidate in Anjou—Louis-Riel, said during a news conference at party headquarters in Montreal on Monday.
The day would have marked the beginning of hearings by a committee of the National Assembly into the alleged deal between Marois's husband, businessman Claude Blanchet, and the FTQ, to enlist Marois and her Parti Québécois in 2009 to help thwart the set-up of a public inquiry into corruption in Quebec's construction industry because the FTQ's solidarity fund had made a major investment in one of Blanchet's businesses. Marois was opposition leader at the time.
The deal was referred to in a 2009 wiretap heard in January at the Charbonneau Commission, the inquiry that was ultimately created by the former Liberal government in 2011.
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