The National Assembly is closing early this week due to the G7 summit. Jacques Chagnon, speaker of the house announced that the National Assembly will not sit Thursday afternoon, nor Friday.
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The G7 summit will take place on Friday and Saturday in La Malbaie, but there will also be a heavy police presence in Quebec City in anticipation for anti-G7 protests.
The National Assembly is currently in its two-week intensive session before the summer break and has almost a dozen bills still left to pass. MNAs will make up the work by sitting on Monday and later Tuesday next week.
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Parti Quebecois MNA Pascal Bérubé said, “Security comes first.”
However, the public security minister insisted the reason the National Assembly is closing is not because of any kind of increased security threat.
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