Security around Quebec's provincial party leaders appears to be high in the early days of the election campaign, with one leader saying he's been given bulletproof vests to keep him safe.
Acknowledging that Quebecers are among the highest taxed people in Canada, the two top parties running in Quebec's election campaign held competing news conferences in the provincial capital on Monday to promise income tax cuts if they are elected on Oct. 3.
Quebec’s general election campaign began in earnest on Sunday, August 28, 2022, sending the four main opposition parties out on the hustings to disprove the polls that suggest the Coalition Avenir Québec is cruising to another four years in power.
The Quebec government is condemning an opposition party for refusing to denounce the actions of climate activists who scaled a Montreal bridge and overtook a downtown street on Tuesday, October 8, 2019.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault is holding firm on his plan to scrap thousands of pending immigration applications, meaning 18,000 applicants would have to restart the process from scratch.
Fresh allegations involving Quebec's anti-corruption unit, once held up as the police force that would rekindle citizens' trust in their institutions, are roiling the province's political class.
Canada's cities believe they will finally land easier and direct access to federal dollars in next year's budget, or at least wrest a platform pledge from parties in the 2019 election.
May Chiu, a family and human rights lawyer, ran in a previous provincial election for Quebec solidaire, which bills itself as the most environmentalist, left-leaning and socially conscious of the four major political parties.