The premier spoke to reporters for the first time Thursday morning since last Friday’s rainfall during a visit to Louiseville, Que., a hard-hit municipality northeast of Montreal.
RELATED: In Pincourt, off the western tip of the Island of Montreal, more than 250 buildings and homes flooded when Debby struck. The suburb received even more rain than Montreal did. As Global’s Dan Spector tells us, many residents are just beginning to realize the magnitude of the cleanup ahead.
Legault says his priorities were restoring power to the 550,000 customers who were left in darkness after the downpour and fixing damaged roads that left hundreds of houses isolated.Will Air Canada pilots go on strike this fall? What to knowLouiseville Mayor Yvon Deshaies has been calling for the army to help the cleanup effort in his community.
But Legault says the army isn’t needed to recover from the storm, which dumped up to 200 millimetres of rain within 24 hours last week.Boissonnault’s former company, business partner face civil fraud allegation
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