Quebec Election Day 10: Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade is going on the offensive
Posted September 6, 2022 9:42 am.
Last Updated September 7, 2022 12:16 pm.
Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade is going on the offensive on the campaign trail today.
Anglade will visit three different ridings held by Legault’s party, including the one-time Liberal stronghold of Châteauguay that her party lost by just over 1,000 votes in 2018. The riding on Montreal’s South Shore is one of five that Anglade has said she is specifically aiming to win back on Oct. 3.
First in Drummondville, Anglade promised less paperwork and less taxes for small and medium businesses – a commitment estimated to cost $600 million. The Liberals looking to broaden the application of the small business deduction, so that very small businesses and self-employed workers would pay less tax and to reduce the contribution rate of businesses for the health services fund.
As well as promote regulatory relief by enshrining in law the requirement to maintain the 1:1 rule, so that imposing a new formality would be accompanied by the abolition of another existing administrative formality – whose cost to business is equivalent.
Annonce du jour https://t.co/d1TOcVYi0C
— Dominique Anglade (@DomAnglade) September 6, 2022
However, Anglade’s party has work to do if she hopes to close the gap with François Legault, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader, who continues to hold a comfortable lead in the polls with less than a month to go before voting day.
Conservative Éric Duhaime is also making a bid to win some of Anglade’s Anglophone base, and will continue that effort today with appearances in Montreal and an interview with an organization that represents Quebec’s English community.
He pledged to repeal Bill 96 if his party forms the next government.
He also plans to make three important changes to combat the decline of French in the province he says: repatriate all the federal government’s powers in immigration matters to end overlap and duplication, review the immigrant selection process in order to welcome a greater proportion of candidates who are proficient in the French language, and he plans to improve inclusion programs to provide better tools for integration.
#New Conservative Party of Quebec leader Éric Duhaime is in Montreal this morning at the Institut du courtage et de la finance. He’ll be talking about his opposition to Bill 96, the CAQ’s overhaul of Quebec’s language charter. ⁰
READ: https://t.co/irCgydnsGO pic.twitter.com/l99f58it4C— Alyssia (@rubertuccinews) September 6, 2022
François Legault says a CAQ government would ask the province’s hydro utility to consider building new hydroelectric projects, including dams.
Legault told reporters in Bécancour that there’s no doubt the province needs to increase its production of electricity in the coming decades.
He says Crown corporation Hydro-Québec would determine the best way to meet the province’s needs, adding that any new project would be realized in partnership with Indigenous communities.
Legault is counting on increasing electrification as part of his environmental plan, which includes achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.
He says Hydro-Québec should start the necessary studies as soon as possible since the design and construction of a dam can take up to 15 years.
Legault says that if he’s re-elected premier Oct. 3 he would also ask the utility to start building new wind farms to meet the province’s short-term needs.
Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade said that her party didn’t plan to build new hydro dams, adding that it would choose instead to focus on wind, solar and green hydrogen projects.
On doit réduire les GES et faire du Québec un leader de l’économie verte.
????Suivez-nous en direct!???? https://t.co/2HirPd45MN— François Legault (@francoislegault) September 6, 2022
Millionaires should contribute more under a government led by Québec solidaire, that’s the message Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois sent Tuesday.
He was in Gatineau to announced tax measures aimed at the richest 5 per cent in Quebec: a tax on large fortunes and a tax on large estates.
Nadeau-Dubois is promising to tax people an extra 0.1 per cent on assets between $1 million and $10 million. He says assets worth between $10 million and $99 million would be taxed at one per cent and anything over $100 million would be taxed at 1.5 per cent annually.
Nadeau-Dubois is also promising to impose a 35 per cent tax on inheritances worth $1 million or more.
These two measures, he says, would bring in $2.65 billion.
Moi je vous dis qui va payer avec un gouvernement solidaire.
Les millionnaires vont devoir contribuer davantage.
On a besoin de moyens pour protéger le monde de la crise du coût de la vie et pour reconstruire notre système de santé. #qc2022 pic.twitter.com/SrHd2Ar0XK
— Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois (@GNadeauDubois) September 6, 2022
Parti Québécois (PQ) Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is making a regional development announcement in the Gaspé region.
And spoke on immigration, saying the regionalization of immigration is important. The PQ promising at least 50 per cent of economic immigration to the regions, and increasing the number of workers who will go to fill positions there.
Plamondon criticized Legault’s approach saying the CAQ’s model has 80 per cent of immigration going to Montreal.
