the hardest-hit province in Canada. ‘I’m sorry,’ Legault says as Quebec surpasses 5,000 coronavirus deaths Premier François Legault was in the hot seat Wednesday afternoon, on occasion going on the defensive, as opposition leaders grilled him on his government’s management of the coronavirus crisis.Parti Quebecois interim leader Pascal Bérubé said, “Quebec represents 23 per cent of the Canadian population, but accounts for 63 per cent of the country’s COVID-19 deaths.”He then asked the premier why the government has not launched an independent investigation into what went wrong during the first wave, as the province of Ontario has.