The CAQ has promised to spend more on education, infrastructure, and health care
The next budget for the government of Quebec will be released on March 21, said Finance Minister Eric Girard on Thursday.
Girard said that the budget, which is the first one since the CAQ won a new four-year term, will keep the promises the party made when it ran for office in 2022.
He told reporters at the National Assembly, “This is a big time.” “It will probably set the tone for the second mandate,” he said.
“Most of the time, we keep our promises.” All of this will be shown in the budget.
During the 2022 election campaign, the CAQ government promised that starting in 2023, the personal income tax rate for Quebecers in the two lowest tax brackets would go down by one percentage point.
During the campaign, the party also said it would spend more on its infrastructure plan and increase spending on education and health by 3.5% and 4.5%, respectively, over the course of its term in office. This was one of the nearly $30 billion in spending promises it made.
Among its specific promises, the CAQ said it would spend $400 million to train 5,000 more health care workers, including 660 more doctors, and spend $1.4 billion over five years to give more children access to subsidized daycare.