QUÉBEC — Quebec’s auto insurance board is going to make it easier for police to obtain documents in their investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns at the state-owned corporation, Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault said Thursday.

In a post on X, Guilbault said the auto board would “adjust exchange and collaboration mechanisms” so that anti-corruption police can more quickly receive the documents they seized.

“It’s essential that it fully co-operates with the police investigation. That is what Quebecers expect,” she wrote.

The auto board had allegedly refused to make documents available to police on grounds of attorney-client privilege, La Presse first reported Thursday.

That prompted a harsh reaction from Quebec Premier François Legault, who responded by p

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