WATCH: The National Assembly’s legal advisor’s job seems to be in jeopardy on Thursday. As Caroline Plante reports, the Parti Quebecois has efused to endorse a motion expressing confidence in Claude Bisson after PQ leader Pierre Karl Peladeau swore he would never speak to him again.
QUEBEC CITY – Nine days before the end of the session and four days until Quebec City votes in by-elections, tempers are flaring and the scene is set for high political drama.
“There will be no consent,” said Parti Québécois House Leader Stéphane Bédard.
The Parti Quebecois refused Thursday to pass a motion expressing confidence in legal advisor Claude Bisson, the man who criticized Pierre Karl Péladeau’s plan to put his shares in a blind trust, with strict orders never to sell them. Bisson said that wouldn’t be a true blind trust.
“If we ask for Mr. Bisson’s resignation,” Bédard said, “we’ll do it through a motion.”
The CAQ thinks the PQ is sullying Bisson’s reputation. The 84-year-old retired justice has been legal advisor to MNAs for 19 years.
“He is a man of great achievements, we need his vision, we need his advice also,” said CAQ MNA Benoît Charette.
Article 6 of the code of ethics states MNAs must “keep in high regard” the protection of the legislature and its institutions. Péladeau has said he will never speak to Bisson again. This is casting a shadow over Bisson’s future in the job.
“What Mr. Péladeau is bringing the PQ to is if you don’t share my view, you don’t exist and I don’t work with you. It was an error yesterday, it’s still an error today and we don’t see the day when Mr. Péladeau will start to understand that a real leadership to build Quebec is the contrary of what he’s doing,” the Liberal House Leader, Jean-Marc Fournier told reporters.
Claude Bisson has one year left in his mandate.
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