Canadian Party of Quebec

Rights, freedom, and equality

A Quebec where every person is treated with dignity, protected by the law, and free to participate fully in public life.

What we will do

Minority rights: Protect English-speaking, allophone, visible minority, and Indigenous communities through clear constitutional commitments.
Indigenous rights: Advance reconciliation through respect, partnership, and fair treatment before the law.
Linguistic rights: Defend official language equality and reject coercive language policy.
Religious freedom: Protect civil liberties and individual conscience in public life.
Bilingualism: Treat French and English as shared civic assets and practical tools for opportunity.
Legislative position: The CaPQ opposes Bills 96, 21, and 40 where they restrict individual rights, equality, religious freedom, linguistic rights, or community autonomy.

A historic tax reduction

Lower rates, wider brackets, and an honest accounting of the gap.

Corporate rate by 2030: 5%
Small business tax rate: 2%
Basic personal amount: $23,500
Cumulative savings for an $80,000 earner over 4 years: ~$6,600

What we will do

Phase personal income tax rates down to 11.75%, 15.75%, 20.5%, and 23.5% by 2030; raise the basic personal amount to $23,500 and expand the third tax bracket to $250,000.
Reduce the general corporate tax rate to 5%, cap the small-business tax rate at 2%, exempt eligible overtime pay up to $3,500, and remove tax on employer-provided health benefits.
What it means for a typical earner: As rates phase down through 2030, an $80,000 income would save roughly $6,600 cumulatively over four years compared to today's brackets. That figure covers the income tax rate and basic personal amount changes only; it is additional once the overtime exemption and the removal of tax on employer-provided health benefits are factored in. This is illustrative, not an official calculation, and would be refined once the full bracket schedule is finalized.
Review existing subsidies, close selected tax loopholes, phase out EV purchase subsidies, and taper childcare assistance for family incomes above $100,000.

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Energy independence and growth

Private capital, mainland development, and a permanent shield around Anticosti.

Annual energy-import bill: $14B
25-year GDP range: $278–$393B
Direct jobs: 52,000+
Projected new government revenue: $154B

What we will do

Keep new hydrocarbon, mining, and marine-energy development on the mainland or near-shore Atlantic tidewater, while making Anticosti a permanent Ecological Exclusion Zone.
Finance projects through private-capital special-purpose vehicles, with Quebec collecting royalties and taxes but taking no equity position.
Advance energy, critical-mineral, tidal, nuclear, and Northern Shield projects with a 12-month approval target, environmental review, public participation, methane monitoring, and municipal royalty sharing.
Benefit to the treasury: Over a 25-year horizon, royalties, taxes, and returns from Quebec-based supply chains are projected to generate approximately $154B in new government revenue - without the province taking on equity risk in individual projects.
Canadian energy sovereignty: Support a West-East pipeline connecting Alberta's oil and gas directly to Quebec, so Canadian energy no longer has to cross the United States to reach Canadian refineries and export markets - letting Quebec refine and export it directly.

Build more homes, with transparent costing

Central annual-start scenario: 68,000
Modelled annual GDP / value added: $2.39B
Estimated direct, indirect & induced jobs: 15,000–20,000

What we will do

Use 68,000 housing starts as a planning scenario - not an official forecast - paired with provincial and Montréal-specific targets.
Apply Class 4D tax treatment to qualifying projects with at least 20% affordable rental units, and cost the associated exemptions transparently.
Homeownership: Quebecers aged 40 and under will pay no sales tax on qualifying homes priced below $1M; the first $500,000 will be exempt from the welcome tax.
Economic and jobs impact: Using typical residential-construction employment intensity, the $2.39B in modelled annual value added could support on the order of 15,000–20,000 direct, indirect, and induced jobs across construction, trades, materials, and related services - alongside stronger municipal tax bases as new units come online.

A healthcare system that works for Québec

More doctors, better access, stronger hospitals, and patient-centred reform.

What we will do

More professionals: Create a Healthcare Workforce Acceleration Plan to recognize credentials faster, expand supervised practice and competency assessments, increase training capacity, and maintain patient-safety, French-language, and professional standards.
Capacity and access: Rebuild hospitals, expand clinics, surgery, diagnostics, long-term care, home care, and aging-in-place services, while improving recruitment, compensation, working conditions, autonomy, and regional retention.
Universal care with flexibility: Preserve publicly funded universal healthcare while allowing accredited nonprofit and regulated private providers to deliver medically necessary services where they can safely reduce wait times. Patients should not pay more.
Integrated primary care: Transform GMFs into interdisciplinary teams with physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, psychologists, social workers, and addiction specialists.
Patient-centred accountability: Reduce bureaucracy and measure success through wait times, outcomes, patient experience, quality of life, equitable access, and workforce retention.
Mental health and prevention: Expand publicly funded, evidence-based psychotherapy, addiction services, early intervention, community care, chronic-disease management, and appropriate trauma-treatment pilots such as Written Exposure Therapy.
MAID oversight: Review and tighten the eligibility criteria and safeguards for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Quebec, addressing concerns that recent expansions have made access too permissive, to ensure vulnerable patients are protected and consent remains fully informed and voluntary.

Strong French, strong economy

Literacy gain linked to GDP growth: 1% → 1.5%

What we will do

Create a French Literacy and Skills Fund for early reading, intervention, adult literacy, numeracy, digital skills, and tutoring.
Fund practical, workplace-oriented French training, guarantee newcomers a free personalized learning pathway, and invest in Francophone culture.
Protect Charter rights, minority rights, freedom of expression, and equality, while treating bilingualism as an economic advantage.
Bilingualism in schools: Strengthen French-English bilingual and immersion programs across the public system, so Quebec students graduate confident in both official languages.
Reverse the CAQ tuition surcharge: Eliminate the additional tuition rates the CAQ imposed on out-of-province and international students at Quebec's English-language universities, which drove away students and revenue without a clear public benefit.
Freedom of choice: Protect students' right to choose their CEGEP and university based on program and language, without new administrative or financial barriers steering that choice.
Tackle Quebec's high school dropout rate with earlier academic support, expanded tutoring, and stronger transitions between high school, vocational training, CEGEP, and the workforce.
Revamp the curriculum to strengthen core literacy, numeracy, and critical-thinking skills, and reduce administrative burden on teachers so more time goes to the classroom.
Literacy is economic policy: research linking literacy scores to productivity has found that a 1% increase in literacy relative to the international average is associated with roughly 1.5% higher GDP per capita - making French literacy and skills investment a growth strategy, not just an education one.

A democracy where every vote counts

What we will do

Adopt Mixed-Member Proportional representation, with directly elected local representatives and regional compensation seats.
Give voters one local-representative vote and one party-preference vote, with transparent lists, reasonable thresholds, public consultation, and voter education.
Improve proportionality while acknowledging the trade-off of potentially more coalition or minority governments.

Build roads once, build them right

What we will do

Update standards for freeze-thaw conditions, drainage, traffic, and lifecycle performance, using lifecycle-based procurement and appropriate high-performance and recycled materials.
Coordinate utility work before resurfacing, restrict non-emergency excavation of new roads, require longer warranties, and publish annual road-condition and contractor reports.
Prioritize safety, freight reliability, fewer closures, lower maintenance costs, and overall value over the lowest initial bid.

Move Quebec forward

Infrastructure is productive capital that expands opportunity, connects communities, supports housing, and unlocks private investment.

What we will do

Rapid transit: Revive the original economic-development vision of REM de l'Est, expand REM, improve service to Laval, the North Shore and South Shore, and pursue an Orange Line extension with updated engineering, ridership, environmental, fiscal, and economic studies.
Modernize the STM: Replace remaining MR-73 cars, upgrade signalling, power, stations, maintenance, accessibility, and service frequency, and establish a preliminary $1–$1.5B envelope for system-wide platform safety barriers.
Regional mobility: Connect the Greater Montreal labour market through métro, REM, BRT, express buses, regional rail, dedicated lanes, transit hubs, and multimodal links, while targeting strategic bridges, highways, freight, and Port of Montreal corridors.
Economic gains: The first REM is associated with 34,000+ construction jobs, 1,000+ permanent jobs, $3.7B+ in Quebec GDP impact, and nearly $5B in anticipated private investment. Historical REM de l'Est projections included 60,000+ jobs and about $6.3B in GDP contribution; these are not current forecasts.
Leverage and accountability: Combine Quebec and federal funding, CDPQ, PPPs, municipal participation, land-value capture, and private capital within a preliminary $27–$43B gross 10–15-year envelope, subject to independent validation and project-by-project fiscal disclosure.

Economic freedom, privacy, and choice

What we will do

Protect the right to use cash and oppose a forced cashless society.
Reject a retail government-controlled digital currency or mandatory digital identity system without strict privacy safeguards and democratic oversight.
Limit government access to personal financial data and support private fintech competition.

Quebec Flood Resilience Strategy

Feasibility and Costing Working Paper - proposed $2.5B, 10-year Quebec Flood Resilience Fund.

What we will do

Scale: Approximately $250M per year - about 2.6 times the existing PRAFI disbursement pace - represents a deliberate, defensible step-change.
Household adaptation: A $200M envelope at $5,000 per grant funds 40,000 grants, covering the official flood-zone count in theory, but approximately 12% of the broader 340,000-property exposure estimate.
Infrastructure delivery: The 50-park and 500-intervention targets are feasible with a mixed portfolio of flagship and neighbourhood-scale projects; every park should not be assumed to cost as much as Verdun's $16M project.
Honest economics: Benefit-cost ratios range from below breakeven in the low and central cases to above breakeven in the high case. The strategy is justified primarily by public safety and avoided catastrophic risk, not by a claim that it will pay for itself.
Next steps: Publish assumptions, confirm the damage-avoidance ramp, cross-check technical formulas, and use official flood maps or commissioned GIS work in the final platform.

Lower grocery prices, more supply, less waste

A market-friendly package that opens Quebec's grocery sector to competition, strengthens local food supply chains, and gets surplus food to people who need it - without broad price controls.

Estimated household grocery savings: 1–3%
Average Quebec household grocery spend per year: ~$11,000
Retailers control 80% of Canadian grocery sales: 5

What we will do

Open the market: Ban anti-competitive grocery leases - grocery-exclusive clauses, radius restrictions, and dark-store covenants - that block new grocers from opening nearby, addressing the property-control barriers identified by the Competition Bureau of Canada.
Fast-track new stores: Create a one-window grocery permitting portal with statutory timelines, and designate Grocery Priority Zones in underserved areas.
Support independents: A Small Grocer Compliance Tier with simplified rules, digital compliance tools, and phased implementation of new requirements.
Strengthen local supply: Invest in greenhouse expansion, cold storage, processing, and distribution, and support regional food supply hubs for more resilient, year-round local production.
Recover edible food: A Food Recovery and Donation Act requiring large retailers to divert edible surplus food to food banks and community organizations first, with strong liability protection for good-faith donors, modelled on France and Italy.

Responsible firearm ownership, self-defence, and the rule of law

Protecting lawful firearm owners and victims of crime, while focusing provincial resources on gangs, traffickers, and organized crime.

What we will do

End Quebec's participation in the federal firearms buyback program, and redirect provincial funding, personnel, and police resources toward organized crime, gang violence, and firearm trafficking.
Victims First Self-Defence Review: Review provincial prosecution guidelines on self-defence and defence of property to reduce legal uncertainty for law-abiding citizens, and advocate for clearer federal self-defence legislation.
Conduct an independent review of Quebec's long-gun registry, examining public safety outcomes, compliance costs, administrative efficiency, and impacts on hunters, farmers, sport shooters, and Indigenous communities.
Establish an Illegal Firearms and Organized Crime Task Force, with enhanced intelligence-sharing, expanded anti-gang operations, stronger asset forfeiture, and more prosecutorial resources for gang-related offences.

Preventing youth crime through opportunity and accountability

A Youth Opportunity and Public Safety Strategy built on mentorship, education, employment, sports and arts, early intervention, and accountability for serious offences.

Proposed annual investment: $270M

What we will do

Quebec Youth Opportunity Fund: Expand access to sports, arts, and music programs in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, after school, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
Quebec Youth Mentorship Network: Pair at-risk youth - those disengaging from school, facing chronic absenteeism, or exposed to gang recruitment - with entrepreneurs, tradespeople, athletes, veterans, and community leaders.
Expand tutoring, career counselling, vocational education, and apprenticeships, and launch a Youth Employment Strategy covering summer jobs, paid internships, and skilled-trades placements.
Establish regional Youth Intervention Teams linking schools, municipalities, healthcare, social workers, and police liaison officers to support at-risk youth and families before problems escalate.
Strengthen gang prevention and enforcement - intelligence-sharing, anti-gang operations, and firearms-trafficking enforcement - alongside gang exit programs, with meaningful accountability for repeat violent offenders.

Addiction, recovery, and public safety

A recovery-focused strategy: expand treatment, strengthen crisis response, restore safe public spaces, and target traffickers - while measuring results.

Proposed annual investment: $550M

What we will do

Create a 24/7 bilingual Quebec Addiction and Recovery Line offering crisis counselling, addiction assessments, treatment referrals, and mobile intervention teams of social workers and addiction specialists.
Expand community intervention teams - social workers, addiction counsellors, nurses, psychologists, and peer-support workers - working alongside CLSCs, hospitals, municipalities, and police.
Significantly expand detox, residential and outpatient treatment, recovery housing, and employment reintegration, with a clear pathway from crisis to assessment, treatment, recovery, and reintegration.
Require publicly funded addiction programs to report treatment entry and completion rates, housing and employment outcomes, and community safety indicators - success measured by recovery, not just interactions.
Restore safe public spaces by strengthening enforcement against open-air drug use in transit stations, parks, schools, and libraries, paired with outreach teams and hazardous-waste cleanup.
End provincial funding for stand-alone supervised consumption sites and redirect resources toward detox, rehabilitation, and recovery, while pressing the federal government to reform the exemption framework that governs these sites.
Target trafficking: strengthen enforcement against fentanyl trafficking, organized crime, and gang-related drug distribution, in cooperation with the Sûreté du Québec, municipal police, the RCMP, and the Canada Border Services Agency.