{"id":197559,"date":"2026-09-05T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197559\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:11:07","slug":"quebec-parties-target-health-care-affordability-as-election-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197559\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec parties target health care, affordability as election nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MONTREAL \u2014 With one month to go before Quebec&#8217;s provincial election, parties are pitching voters on health care, government spending and daycare, while their leaders are also debating the prospect of another referendum on Quebec independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CAQ Leader Christine Fr\u00e9chette promised Saturday to expand access to reduced-fee daycare, while accusing Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon of hiding his commitment to hold a referendum on Quebec independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">St-Pierre Plamondon announced a series of government accountability measures, including freezing the salaries of MNAs, cabinet ministers and heads of Crown corporations until Quebec balances its budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Liberal Leader Charles Milliard accused Fr\u00e9chette on Saturday of misleading voters about the number of new reduced-fee daycare spaces her party is promising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Qu\u00e9bec solidaire proposes 400 new primary-care access points as part of an expansion of Quebec&#8217;s network of local community health centres, known as CLSCs, which it says would help ease pressure on hospital emergency rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Conservative Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime, meanwhile, began the weekend with promises to make nearly all government services available online as part of a digital plan his party says would save $3.45 billion over five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 With one month to go before Quebec&#8217;s provincial election, parties are pitching voters on health care,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[336,61886,17,6770,57463,61885,59318,241,3837,59462,989],"class_list":["post-197559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-336","tag-avenir-quebec","tag-canada","tag-christine-frechette","tag-frechette","tag-mario-laframboise","tag-que","tag-quebec","tag-saturday","tag-sept-5","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}