(Drummondville) The electoral platform of the Conservative Party of Quebec presented Sunday by its leader Éric Duhaime emphasizes six major themes – the economy, housing, health, transport, the environment, education and the family. – but ignores several others.
Posted at 3:02 p.m.
Updated at 3:24 p.m.
In an impromptu press shortly after his announcement in Drummondville on Sunday, the former radio host, along with dozens of his candidates, said he wanted to “focus on these issues in view of the election” with five well-defined proposals .
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“There are parties that develop electoral platforms and then present 50 issues or 200 issues, but we have chosen to put five [propositions] because we want to be sure to achieve them,” he explained.
“If we just did that in a first term, it would be huge,” added Éric Duhaime.
As for the party’s proposals on culture, immigration, identity, languages and a host of other subjects, Éric Duhaime directs curious voters to the party’s proposal book adopted in November 2021 and available online.
Avoid controversial topics?
He then defended himself from not wanting to address controversial subjects, such as the Legault government’s update of Bill 101, at a time when the PCQ is courting the English-speaking electorate of Montreal.
The PCQ’s proposal book mentions, among other things, its intentions to lower the immigration thresholds “according to the effectiveness of the measures that will have been implemented to contribute to the economic development of Quebec”.
“We are going to defend the program, we are not going to go against the program that has been adopted by our members,” insisted Éric Duhaime.
The Press reported on Saturday that the PCQ is committed to giving much more space to the private sector in health and to reforming the funding of schools and daycare centers as Mario Dumont’s ADQ proposed 20 years ago.