The Parti Québécois (PQ) promises to increase investments by $575 million a year for the renovation of dilapidated schools and to speed up the work.
PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon announced on Friday that he wanted to inject an additional $2.3 billion into the budget planned for the repair of schools over the next four years. The Quebec infrastructure plan currently provides for $21.1 billion.
“It’s not right that places so meaningful to children — as well as teachers and support staff — are so unsafe and, in some cases, so unhealthy. How can we hope to promote public schools in such a context? “said Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon in a press release.
He also mentioned in a press briefing near a primary school in Montreal that the playgrounds would benefit from these new investments.
The political formation also undertakes to carry out the renovation work over a period of four years rather than ten years. Schools will now take priority, promises the PQ.
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