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QUEBEC CITY — Subsidizing the Los Angeles Kings to play in Quebec City while Salt Lake City isn’t paying a cent is downright “clownish,” says Quebec Conservative Party Leader Éric Duhaime.
The politician was reacting to an article in La Presse Monday that revealed the National Hockey League club agreed to play a pre-season game in Salt Lake City this year without any financial help from the city or the state of Utah.
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Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard agreed last fall to pay the Kings between $5 million and $7 million in public money to play two preparatory games in Quebec City.
“There’s something completely clownish about it,” Duhaime said Monday at a press briefing in Quebec City. “We’re being made to look like ‘ti-counes’,” or amateurs, he said.
Paying for the exhibition games is “even more unacceptable in the current economic context,” he added.
Girard’s next budget, scheduled to be tabled March 12, will not be balanced.
For Québec solidaire parliamentary leader Alexandre Leduc, there’s no doubt that the Coalition Avenir Québec is “negotiating badly” and “failing to get what’s best for Quebec.”
“This government must take responsibility for its bad financial decisions and stop putting the burden on the workers who carry our public services at arm’s length,” Leduc said in a written statement.
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