Quebec to “manage” trades training
Oh here we go. No sooner has Mark Carney announced a project to spend billions of dollars training Canadian youth in construction trades than our new premier states that it’s a provincial jurisdiction, meaning that it won’t happen here, the money will be siphoned into arcane Quebec priorities, or the project will be so encrusted with Quebec bureaucratic knobjobbery that the whole thing will fall down of its own weight.
Joey 16:48 on 2026-04-29 Permalink
What’s the issue (besides Ottawa once again announcing national programs in extremely well established areas of provincial jurisdiction)? Frechette seems to be pretty open to actually taking the money and spending it via existing Quebec programs. Would it be better for the feds to try and set up something in parallel?
bob 18:47 on 2026-04-29 Permalink
Frechette, like every other premier, is open to taking the money and spending it on whatever the hell she wants.
SMD 20:01 on 2026-04-29 Permalink
On the other hand, Canada just won the vote to host the new Defence Bank, so if we’re lucky we’ll get all those war profiteering jobs right here in Montreal! /sarcasm https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/2026-04-29/future-banque-de-la-defense/le-canada-obtient-le-siege-social.php