Media Advisory - Conseil du patronat du Québec response to the 2010-2011
federal budget

MONTREAL, March 2 /CNW Telbec/ - The president of the Conseil du patronat du Québec (CPQ), Yves-Thomas Dorval, will participate in the federal budget lock-up in Ottawa on Thursday, March 4, 2010, and will be available for media interviews as soon as the lock-up is over at about 4 p.m.

The CPQ's main recommendations for the federal budget may be consulted at:

http://www.cpq.qc.ca/UserFiles/File/Memoires/2009/presentation1009.pdf.

The Conseil du patronat du Québec includes many of the province's largest companies as well as the vast majority of sector-based employers' associations, making it the sole employers' confederation in the province.

For further information: and contact person in Ottawa after the lock-up: Patrick Leblanc, Vice-President - Communications, Conseil du patronat du Québec, Cell.: [phone]