Pierre Karl Peladeau is delivering his model of how Quebec should cut spending in several media interviews.

The media magnate and Parti Quebecois MNA most-favoured to become leader of the opposition party has famously been described as the "worst employer in Quebec" for locking out employees dozens of times and breaking up unions.

Now Peladeau is speaking out against the billions in cuts the Liberal government is planning to make over the next two years.

Speaking to Le Devoir Peladeau said the "ideological" austerity measures would destroy "the Quebec model" of society.

The Liberals have promised to examine every aspect of government spending and launched a website to solicit ideas as to what could be cut.

Peladeau said the real actions being taken are "being made without any forethought, it's not surgical, it's almost like using a chainsaw."

He also told La Presse that there are cuts he would agree with, such as reducing subsidies to Quebec industries, but added that he still wants the provincial government to take a strong role in building the local economy.

Peladeau has benefited from government intervention in the economy.

In 2000 his company Quebecor teamed up with the Caisse de Depot et Placements to buy Videotron for a total of $4.9 billion, with $3.2 billion coming from the government-run investment agency.

In 2012 the Caisse sold $1.5 billion of the company back to Quebecor, at a price which analysts said was about 20 percent higher than what the company was valued at.

Criticism from Couillard

Peladeau has also taken to social media in recent weeks, and a comment he made about the President of Germany is drawing some ire.

President Joachim Gauck was at a weekend dinner hosted by Premier Philippe Couillard when he said he was glad Quebec had remained part of Canada.

On Facebook Peladeau said Gauck's comments were not respectful of "the millions of Quebecers who do not share that idea."

Peladeau added that Gauck, who was born in East Germany when the nation was split by communist rule, should ask himself "if it was legitimate to impose a constitution on a country and a nation such as the 1982 Pierre Trudeau constitution was inflicted on Quebec while being rejected by every political party represented in Quebec's National Assembly?"

Couillard the very comparison was bizarre.

"We're not oppressed. We're free people. Our fundamental freedoms are respected. We live in an open, democratic society where the rule of law exists. To draw any comparison is, frankly, strange," said Couillard.