WESTMOUNT – Parti Québécois (PQ) leader Pierre Karl Péladeau received applause from an unconventional audience Friday when he spoke to students at Dawson College.
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The PQ leader and media mogul didn’t soften his message.
“One day, Quebec will negotiate its own international treaties,” he said.
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Péladeau spoke – in English – for about an hour about how he joined the media business through his father’s company.
He also spoke about his opinions on the Rona purchase by Lowe’s – he’s opposed to it – and Quebec sovereignty.
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He asked the crowd several hypothetical questions about Scottish and Catalonian sovereignty movements.
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Students at Dawson listened attentively and asked Péladeau a battery of questions: What about Quebec’s public debt? How would currency work? What about unions?
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Péladeau made reference to the PQ’s plan to apply Bill 101 to CEGEPs, but conceded it’s simply something the party is discussing.
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