{"id":3939,"date":"2014-03-11T03:49:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T10:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2025-01-19T22:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T03:45:27","slug":"brian-mulroney-leading-the-charge-to-get-nordiques-back-to-quebec-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/11\/brian-mulroney-leading-the-charge-to-get-nordiques-back-to-quebec-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Mulroney leading the charge to get Nordiques back to Quebec City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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QUEBEC – Ex-media baron Pierre Karl Peladeau may want to create a sovereign Quebec but a former Canadian prime minister is battling to get the province its second NHL team.<\/p>\n

Brian Mulroney has emerged as a key player to bring the Quebec Nordiques back to the provincial capital, a project that was previously closely linked to Peladeau.<\/p>\n

Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume spoke of Mulroney’s involvement on Monday as he reacted to news that Peladeau, former head of Quebecor Inc.<\/p>\n

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, is running for the Parti Quebecois in the April 7 election.<\/p>\n

Labeaume insisted that Peladeau’s involvement in politics would have no effect on any return of the Nordiques, who began as a World Hockey Association team in 1972 before switching to the National Hockey League in 1979.<\/p>\n

The team moved to Denver in 1995 and was renamed the Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n

Peladeau has been one of the key movers to bring an NHL team to the provincial capital. His Quebecor Inc. purchased the naming and management rights to a new arena where a team would be based.<\/p>\n

The estimated $400-million cost of the facility is split 50-50 between the province and Quebec City \u2014 a deal that was supported by the PQ before the 2012 provincial election.<\/p>\n

Peladeau announced Sunday he would run for the PQ in Saint-Jerome riding, proclaiming he wants to help make Quebec independent.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got everything (we need) for a country to be alive and kicking,” he told an enthusiastic crowd.<\/p>\n

Labeaume praised Peladeau’s jump to the political arena but didn’t offer an endorsement.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s excellent news for democracy when people like Pierre Karl Peladeau get involved in politics,” Labeaume told a news conference on Monday.<\/p>\n

He then described the quality of the candidates for all parties as “magnificent.”<\/p>\n

Labeaume agreed that Peladeau had epitomized the hockey team project.<\/p>\n

“But he was supported by a team of a very high calibre.”<\/p>\n

That team included Mulroney, Quebecor CEO Robert Depatie and Pierre Dion, president of TVA, Quebecor’s French-language television network.<\/p>\n

Mulroney, who is vice-chairman of the Quebecor board, has been involved in the hockey file right from the beginning and he and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman share a mutual respect, Labeaume said.<\/p>\n

“Commissioner Bettman and (ex-)prime minister Mulroney have spoken directly for quite some time, without intermediaries,” Labeaume said.<\/p>\n

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The mayor said the eventual decision on whether Quebec City will get an NHL team will depend not on politics but on the benefits it provides the league.<\/p>\n

He pointed out the NHL’s main objective is to “make profits.<\/p>\n

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”<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t operate on emotions.”<\/p>\n

He dismissed any hurdles posed by a possible sovereignty referendum or Quebec independence.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Bettman is a businessman,” he said. “The Quebec sovereignty project will not bother him.”<\/p>\n

He added that if Quebec became independent tomorrow, the NHL would still go ahead and re-sign its deal with the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n

(By Nelson Wyatt in Montreal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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