Quebec's Legault wants to be reassuring in the face of Quebec's haircut

François Legault felt that he had received a lower credit rating due to health, education and tax cuts.

The S&P agency lowered Quebec's credit rating from AA- to A+ last Wednesday.

QUEBEC — Whatever the opposition parties say, the decision of the Standard & Poor agency to lower Quebec's credit rating last week had no impact. On Tuesday, Prime Minister François Legault and his Minister of Finance, Eric Girard, argued that the financial markets had responded well to Quebec's bond issue in the morning. "There is absolutely no impact," Girard said in a press union. "For the future, I can't predict it," he said. "For the past w…