The latest from Quebec's ADQ, the party all my friends (those who don't live in Quebec) keep telling me is "right-wing":
Liberal Premier Jean Charest is hinting strongly that he will plow ahead with his proposed tax cuts, setting up his minority government's first major confrontation with the Action democratique du Quebec. Charest signalled yet again on Thursday that he was undaunted by ADQ Leader Mario Dumont's lack of enthusiasm for the cuts. "Reducing personal income tax stimulates growth and encourages work, that's what we want," Charest told a gathering of Quebec municipal leaders.
Charest outlined details of sweeping cuts for the middle class in the innaugural speech of his minority government on Wednesday.
The tax cuts will likely be the centrepiece of the minority government's first budget, to be tabled on May 24.
But earlier on Thursday, Dumont reiterated his unease about Charest's promise to use $700 million in federal transfer money for middle-class tax cuts.
"We needed this money for our hospitals and our schools," Dumont said in the legislature.
Think again, folks.
