Open letter to the outgoing Liberal Member of the National Assembly for Pontiac

September 11, 2018

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The Equity

Dear Mr. Fortin,
Le Droit newspaper of Aug. 27, 2018 reports that according to you, the Liberal team has done a lot of work in the region in recent years.
As a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, you might consider stopping, in the name of transparency, retrieving the accomplishments of others to find something to tell the voters. The Faculty of Medicine at UQO was announced a long time ago and nothing has happened; the Rapibus and the light rail project are initiatives of the City of Gatineau; the reduction of school taxes has been drawn directly from the CAQ platform (and other reductions are coming under the CAQ); the superclinics are still too few after all these years where you had, and should have taken the time, to develop them and yet, they improve because of the criticisms of the CAQ that wants to open on evenings and weekends.

In fact, all you have mentioned in the media is a recovery of projects developed by other jurisdictions that confirms your inaction as MNA for Pontiac. You and your Liberal predecessors have always had poor results and you have done nothing for structural development.
What did you do for your citizen-constituents? The MRC Pontiac is the fourth poorest in Quebec while the Liberals have represented the population of this riding for countless mandates. Forestry projects and sawmills have shut down and nothing else has happened on your part to respond to these massive job losses. The unemployment rate is around 11 per cent in the MRC Pontiac, one of the highest, if not the highest in Quebec.
Thanks to your undeserved steady majority, you perpetuate the Liberal approach of taking the population of the riding for granted.
But for the first time in a long time, there is a real challenge in Pontiac, with another federalist party as a strong option and contender. With the Coalition Avenir Québec, which wants a strong Quebec in a united Canada, and does not want another referendum any more than you want it, the citizens of the Pontiac now have a real choice, between amorphous Liberals and the Coalition Avenir Québec. Choosing the latter now will mean doing more and doing better.

Olive Kamanyana
Candidate – Coalition Avenir Québec
Pontiac

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