MONTREAL — André Boisclair, Quebec’s delegate-general to New York, has announced that he will respond to allegations made about his past at a news conference in Montreal on Monday.
The accusations were raised at the National Assembly earlier this week after Coalition Avenir Québec MNA and former police chief Jacques Duchesneau brought up Boisclair’s past cocaine use.
Duchesneau questioned Boisclair’s ties to Paul Sauvé, a construction company president who had several Hells Angels partners.
He wondered out loud whether Boisclair was pressured into granting his friend a 2.6 million-dollar subsidy to renovate St. James Church in Montreal, just days before the PQ lost the 2003 election.
“Where did he buy his drugs in 2003 when he was a minister?” Duchesneau said.
“The SAQ?”
CAQ leader François Legault backed Duchesneau’s remarks.
Boisclair, on the other hand, says he will sue Duschesneau if he does not retract what he called “vicious statements.”
Duchesneau responded Thursday, pointing out his right to ask questions. “We want to get answers.”
He asked Premier Pauline Marois to suspend Boisclair until he responds to the allegations.
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