\u0022I have read and heard ... all kinds of comments, and I think it is unfair,\u0022 he said about the controversy surrounding Sophie Brochu\u0027s departure.
“I have read and heard — like you — all kinds of comments, and I think it is unfair,” he said during a scrum to set the record straight.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
“There are not two clans in Quebec: the clan that defends the interests of Quebecers, then the clan that defends the interests of businesses,” he said. “There is just a clan that works, first, for the benefit of the citizens. … In some cases, to work for the benefit of Quebecers, you have to work with certain companies.”Article content
Brochu had said the public corporation should not become the “Dollarama” of electricity — an allusion to chain store that sells items at low prices.During a meeting in December with several ministers and Legault and Brochu, “we all agreed to say: Hydro-Québec should never sign a contract if the discount given is greater than the additional revenue to the government of Quebec,” Legault said.
Thus, Hydro’s current strategic plan maintains it will be necessary to produce an additional 100 Terawatt-hours — double the current production — to carry out the decarbonization of Quebec, Legault recalled.For its part, Hydro-Québec has already said it is revising its inventory of rivers that have hydroelectric potential.
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