Bloc Quebecois Chief Yves-Francois Blanchet rises throughout query interval within the Home of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
OTTAWA --
If former Quebec premier Jean Charest runs for the management of the federal Conservatives, it might be a "examine from behind" to all Quebecers, Bloc Québécois Chief Yves-François Blanchet stated Tuesday.
Blanchet, in response to studies Charest is contemplating a run to interchange Erin O'Toole as Tory chief, instructed reporters that some hockey gamers are good with the puck whereas others will play soiled and hit you from behind.
The Bloc chief says it was Charest who linked Quebec's cap-and-trade system with California's in 2014, as a part of the Western Local weather Initiative.
Blanchet says the federal Tories have been the "worst enemies" to that system of decreasing greenhouse gasoline emissions, and he questioned why Charest would need to have something to do with the Conservatives.
Charest, Quebec premier from 2003 to 2012, has not formally introduced a management bid, however he's scheduled to satisfy Wednesday in Ottawa with Conservative MPs at an occasion hosted by two who need him to run.
Quebec MP Alain Rayes and Nova Scotia’s Rick Perkins organized the occasion after a number of MPs and senators expressed an curiosity in talking with Charest, a spokesperson for Rayes's workplace stated Monday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed on March 1, 2022.