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Canadian Party of Quebec releases fully costed platform: largest tax cut in Quebec's history, projects $33 billion in additional annual GDP within five years

MONTREAL — September 30, 2026 — The Canadian Party of Quebec today released its 2026 election platform, a 40-page costed plan covering 21 policy areas, with every commitment priced and every figure traced to a published source.

The centrepiece is the largest personal income tax cut in Quebec's history. All four rates fall, the basic personal amount rises from $18,952 to $23,500, and the third bracket ceiling nearly doubles from $132,245 to $250,000. A typical Quebec family of four keeps roughly $14,000 over the first four years, with savings continuing every year after.

"Quebecers have been asked to take politicians at their word for too long," said Joseph Cianflone, Leader of the Canadian Party of Quebec. "This platform shows the math. Where we don't have a final number, we say so. That's the standard we hold ourselves to."

Projected economic growth

• Within 5 years
  Additional annual GDP: $33 billion
  Jobs supported: 78,000–127,000
• Within 10 years
  Additional annual GDP: $67 billion
  Jobs supported: 118,000–188,000
• Within 15 years
  Additional annual GDP: $94 billion
  Jobs supported: 137,000–210,000
• Within 25 years
  Additional annual GDP: $104 billion
  Jobs supported: 174,000–256,000

Net debt falls from 38.8% of GDP to roughly 19%, clearing the government's own original 30% target well before its 2037–38 deadline.

Cost of living

Groceries. A Grocery Market Monitoring Unit in a sector where three chains control over 60% of national sales, fast-tracked permitting for new competitors, and a compliance tier so independents aren't buried in the same red tape as national chains. Estimated savings of $300 to $700 a year for a family.

Housing. A target of 68,000 housing starts a year, up from 58,260. For buyers 40 and under, a phased QST exemption on new homes and a full Welcome Tax exemption on the first $500,000.

Transit. The REM de l'Est revived, spurs to Chomedey and Longueuil, the Orange Line closed into a loop, and a 15% refundable tax credit on transit passes. The REM was built at $125 million per kilometre; the Blue Line extension cost ten times more.

Municipalities

Municipalities would receive 0.75 of a percentage point of the QST, about $2.18 billion a year. Every municipality must direct at least half of this amount to cutting property tax bills, with an anti-offset rule preventing clawback through new fees.

Municipalities also gain real financial powers — bond issuance, land-value capture, access to low-cost infrastructure loans — real authority to protect anglophone community rights and services, and new powers to develop neglected areas. Federal funding will flow directly to municipalities rather than through the province. The CMM's vehicle registration tax is frozen.

Health

$1.9 to $3.4 billion a year in new spending by Year 4, targeting the 1.5 million Quebecers without a family doctor. Single-window credential recognition, interdisciplinary Family Medicine Groups, and accountability measured on wait times and patient outcomes rather than pay-for-performance or patient quotas. A dedicated menopause strategy and a fully costed addiction and recovery plan. Quebec stops being the only province that taxes employer-paid health and dental benefits.

Accountability

Santé Québec and the Office québécois de la langue française are abolished, with their essential functions returned to ministries answerable to the National Assembly.

Independent cost review is required before funding release on every IT project above $50 million — a direct response to SAAQclic, which ran from roughly $600 million to more than $1.1 billion, and SIFA, budgeted at $96 million and re-evaluated at $1 billion.

"We built this in house rather than outsourcing it to consultants," said Christopher Vaccarella, Head of Policy. "Every number either comes from a published source or from a formula we've written out. Anyone can check our work, and we'd rather they did."

The platform states plainly that its path does not reach balance in 2029–30, the deadline set in the Balanced Budget Act, and that a CaPQ government would amend the Act to set a new deadline consistent with this plan and report against it annually.

Full policy available in English at https://media.canadianpartyquebec.ca/media/capq-fully-costed-platform-2026-en.pdf .

A tax simulator allowing Quebecers to calculate their own savings is available at canadianpartyquebec.ca/en/tools/tax-simulator .

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Media Contact:
Will Twolan
Communications
Canadian Party of Quebec
E-mail: media@particanadienquebec.ca