Finance Minister Eric Girard finds himself struggling with COVID-19 a few days before the economic update he must present to the National Assembly on Thursday.
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Mr. Girard explained that he began to feel symptoms of the disease on Friday. A test carried out on Saturday then confirmed the infection.
“I am working in isolation for the next few days, in accordance with the instructions of the [Santé publique]. I plan to be back in time to present the economic update in Qc on Thursday,” the minister said on his Twitter account on Sunday.
Presented in the midst of an inflationary context with an economic reality that no longer has anything to do with that which prevailed when the budget was tabled last March, the economic update should help clarify the portrait of the Quebec economy.
Minister Girard estimates, to date, that Quebec has a one in two chance of ending up in recession, but that it is guaranteed to experience an economic slowdown in 2023.
