Owned by the global metals producer Glencore, the Horne Smelter has long been criticized by Rouyn-Noranda residents for its massive discharge of toxic materials.
On Wednesday, Quebec Solidaire cited a report that Premier Legault was seeking scientific evidence to support a curfew in the province hours before it was announced in December.
To divert attention from its catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic which last week bumped Quebec’s seven-day average of daily COVID-19 deaths to more than seventy the Legault government is seeking to shift the blame onto the unvaccinated.