After betting first on language and the environment, the Parti Québécois jumps into the arena of the fight against inflation on Wednesday by unveiling its “purchasing power allowance”. The PQ program promises to pay assistance of $750 to $1,200 to Quebecers whose income is less than $80,000.
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Chief Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is counting on “targeted and temporary” aid measures to replenish the wallets of Quebecers. He says no to tax cuts unlike his adversaries from the Coalition avenir Québec, the Liberal Party of Quebec and the Conservative Party of Quebec.
The PQ would therefore introduce a “purchasing power allowance” which provides for the payment of an amount of $1,200 for people with an income of less than $50,000 and an amount of $750 for those who earn between 50,000 and 80,000 $ per year. The training would also double the solidarity credit.
The PQ program would be funded from the surpluses garnered by the Quebec government due to high inflation. The pre-election report of the Ministry of Finance, audited by the Auditor General, revealed in August that the deficit of 6.45 billion forecast in the Girard budget last March has practically disappeared thanks to a marked increase in tax revenues. attributable to inflation.
A little earlier this week, the leader of the Parti Québécois had deplored “the one-upmanship” in which his political opponents are engaged on the front of the portfolio of Quebecers. “We have witnessed an escalation between the CAQ and the PLQ and it is which of these two parties will plunge us back into austerity the fastest,” declared Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
On Tuesday, he also said he was critical of the promise of Quebec solidaire to suspend the QST on thousands of essential goods products. “I am a little stunned to see a party that defines itself on the left as Québec solidaire make a tax reduction measure that will essentially benefit millionaires, people who earn $200,000, $300,000 a year. It is absolutely not a targeted measure to lower taxes for everyone,” he said.