{"id":45160,"date":"2018-10-03T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45160"},"modified":"2018-10-02T16:53:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:53:11","slug":"quebec-election-results-coalition-avenir-quebec-caq-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/quebec-election-results-coalition-avenir-quebec-caq-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec election results &#8211; <em>Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec<\/em> (CAQ) majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4474745\/quebec-election-results\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global News<\/a> rounds up the final poll results from Monday&#8217;s Quebec election:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quebec-election-results-20181001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quebec-election-results-20181001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"682\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quebec-election-results-20181001.png 965w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quebec-election-results-20181001-150x106.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quebec-election-results-20181001-480x339.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quebec-election-results-20181001-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Quebec-election-results-20181001-853x603.png 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a 39-day election campaign, voters in Quebec headed to the polls Monday and elected the <em>Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec<\/em> (CAQ) to power.<\/p>\n<p>The CAQ, headed by Fran\u00e7ois Legault, won a majority of seats delivering a crushing blow to the Quebec Liberal Party, who had held power for 13 of the last 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The CAQ was elected in 74 of the province\u2019s 125 ridings, compared to 32 for the Liberals.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/em> (PQ) suffered a double blow going from 28 seats to 9 and is once again without a leader, after Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lis\u00e9e announced he was stepping down after losing his riding of Rosemont.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really haven&#8217;t been following Quebec politics at all, so I didn&#8217;t know much about the CAQ&#8217;s stance on the issues. Here, cribbed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quebec_general_election,_2018#Issues\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia page<\/a> are some of their issues gleaned from the party platform (selective emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CAQ Leader Fran\u00e7ois Legault has promised to <strong>reduce the tax burden<\/strong> of Quebecers. A CAQ government, he says, will further harmonize school taxes across the province, a tax cut valued at $700 million.<\/li>\n<li>A long-standing party proposal is to create a Quebec version of Silicon Valley, which they&#8217;ve dubbed &#8220;The Saint-Laurent Project&#8221;. It envisions turning the Saint-Lawrence Valley into a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship, with the collaboration of universities.<\/li>\n<li>Hoping to <strong>eliminate tens of thousands of jobs<\/strong> from the province&#8217;s <strong>civil service<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>As premier, Legault says he would temporarily reduce the number of immigrants Quebec accepts annually from 50,000 to 40,000.<\/li>\n<li>To qualify for a Quebec selection certificate, the CAQ <strong>wants immigrants to pass a values and language test<\/strong>. Immigrants would also have to prove they have been looking for employment. Some experts have questioned the legality of the plan.<\/li>\n<li>The party favours d<strong>ecentralizing health-care administration<\/strong>, while maintaining a universal free public health care system, Legault was quoted saying &#8220;The important thing is the universality of care. &#8230; I do not want more private. Our public [health care] is a jewel of Quebec.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Like the PQ, the CAQ also vowed to renegotiate with the Quebec&#8217;s medical specialists in order to cut their compensation by an average of $80,000 per year. Legault believes the specialists will be open to striking a new deal.<\/li>\n<li>Would overhaul the province&#8217;s longterm care system (CHSLDs) with a new network of smaller, more &#8220;humane&#8221; homes at an initial cost of $1 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Wants to <strong>abolish school boards<\/strong> and replace them with service centres that would provide administrative support to schools. The party believes this would give schools greater autonomy and make the education system cheaper to run.<\/li>\n<li>Wants to <strong>increase the mandatory age of staying in school to 18<\/strong>, to reduce the drop out rate.<\/li>\n<li>Wants added homework help, extracurricular activities (sport and culture), additional funding for career guidance and tutors assigned to more vulnerable students.<\/li>\n<li>The CAQ is also proposing to do away with progressive daycare pricing, though over a period of four years. All Quebec parents would be charged the same daily rate, regardless of their annual income.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Opposes the wearing of religious symbols<\/strong>, including the hijab, by police officers and others who wield coercive state power. The party would also ban school teachers from wearing religious symbols.<\/li>\n<li>Would pass a &#8220;Secularism Charter&#8221; to <strong>reduce the scope of religious accommodations available to civil servants<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Calls itself nationalist. It wants <strong>more power for Quebec<\/strong>, but within Canada. Legault, a former PQ cabinet minister, has promised a CAQ government will never hold a referendum on Quebec sovereignty.<\/li>\n<li>Legault wants to seek additional powers for Quebec, including control over immigration, increased fiscal capacity and a say in the nomination of Supreme Court justices. Some of these measures would require <strong>re-opening the Constitution<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Supports international greenhouse gas reduction targets and would promote &#8220;technological innovations to ensure their achievement&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global News rounds up the final poll results from Monday&#8217;s Quebec election: After a 39-day election campaign, voters in Quebec headed to the polls Monday and elected the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec (CAQ) to power. The CAQ, headed by Fran\u00e7ois Legault, won a majority of seats delivering a crushing blow to the Quebec Liberal Party, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[188,908,842,113,114],"class_list":["post-45160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-liberalparty","tag-partiquebecois","tag-quebec","tag-separatism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bKo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45163,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45160\/revisions\/45163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}