More expensive, but for what?
Despite this large budget deficit, we will not see any significant improvement in the quality of education or health care in the years to come. In Quebec, public sector unions are not demanding to better serve the population, but to better serve themselves. I hope they will prove me wrong.
Yves Bougie, Saint-Eustache
Cancel the tax cut
I am in favor of restoring taxes to the way they were before the reduction. This decision to lower taxes was ill-considered.
Paul Gaucher
Very satisfied
It responds to the main requests. The unions will never be happy, they have received enough in the negotiations. They did not want to give room to rebuild the health network.
Luc Beauchemin
Poor children
I am shocked to see the carelessness with which the CAQ spends without counting. The debt will continue to rise. I am sad for our children who will have to pay one day.
Luc Noel
Irresponsible
After sending checks to everyone and reducing Quebecers’ taxes, this government is telling us today that it is short 11 billion to complete a balanced budget. Sadly irresponsible. If managing is the art of forecasting, our politicians fail miserably in their examination.
Pierre Mallette
A decline
A budget worthy of the 1980s. The poor and the middle class will pay the price for this deficit.
Martin Laperrière, Quebec
No surprise!
Nothing surprising in this budget. The only words that are fashionable these days are that the government must do this or do that, we want more money here and there. Everyone is complaining, and they all want the government to help them… Well, money doesn’t grow on trees. You either have it or you borrow it.
André Lussier
Electrical reaction
I would have cut the program Ride green full. Zero, finished.
Jean-René Mongeau
Pay now!
Quebecers were proud to be behind the unions during the last negotiations. Well, pay now, dear citizens. The CAQ had promised to reduce 5,000 positions upon its arrival while counterbalancing with greater flexibility and productivity. Everything has to be done. Let civil service executives roll up their sleeves.
Richard Boyer
Other people’s money
I am self-employed and a business owner. We do not increase employee salaries by 6% in 1 year and 18 to 21% over 5 years when the company is preparing to be massively in deficit for several years. But in government, it doesn’t matter, it’s other people’s money. As for government employees, it doesn’t matter, it’s financed by other generations’ money.
Frederic Wellens
Unacceptable
The first duty of a government is to ensure that citizens can feed and house themselves. They really don’t understand anything and are failing in their duty. This is unacceptable. It is certain that I will not vote for Legault in the next elections. What a lack of vision. Instead of “patching” a little here and a little there, can we resolve one issue: housing? In this way, we will be able to slow down the number of people on the streets in the medium term.
Pascale Cécyre
Comments collected by Hélène Baril, The Press