Federal Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is concerned to hear the PQ leader advocate for “closer ties” with the United States if Quebec were to become an independent country.

According to her, “the leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ) wants to give Quebec to Donald Trump, to throw it into the arms” of the American president.

“He wants to ensure that Quebec is much weaker in the face of an America that is acquiring enormous power and wants to make its own laws around the world,” said Joly, on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting Tuesday morning.

For the past few weeks, the Parti Québécois leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, has been gradually revealing the contents of his ‘Blue Book’ on a sovereign Quebec. At the beginning of the month, he presented a summary of a section dealing with internatio

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