A week into the federal election campaign, the Bloc Québécois released its platform. Highlights for innovators are its focus on climate change and on building a domestic pharma industry. The Bloc wants federal support to help make Quebec’s hydro resources the “battery of North America” and an end to funding for carmakers that compete with smaller companies in Quebec that make zero-emissions vehicles. (The Logic)
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A week into the federal election campaign, the Bloc Québécois released its platform. Highlights for innovators are its focus on climate change and on building a domestic pharma industry. The Bloc wants federal support to help make Quebec’s hydro resources the “battery of North America” and an end to funding for carmakers that compete with smaller companies in Quebec that make zero-emissions vehicles. (The Logic)
Talking point: The BQ platform isn’t a blueprint for governing, but it could be a shopping list if one of the other parties comes looking for the Bloc’s support in a minority Parliament. The party wants an overhaul of the federal shipbuilding strategy to send more business to the Davie shipyard near Quebec City and no new cross-country petroleum pipelines. Also no electricity-transmission corridor—a Conservative idea from 2019—if it disadvantages Hydro-Québec.
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