The Canadian Press: “He was invited to the dinner and he refused,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday. “It’s his decision to leave the chair empty.”
But the premier wrote on social media that Ottawa is seeking to impose economic decisions on Quebec without allowing the province a seat at the negotiating table.
“The federal government would have us believe that giving the Quebec premier permission to serve shrimp cocktails at a reception constitutes an acceptable and sufficient form of influence in representing Quebec’s interests,” St-Pierre Plamondon wrote…