{"id":875215,"date":"2026-08-29T01:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875215\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T01:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:16:14","slug":"fact-checking-the-quebec-conservatives-tax-cut-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875215\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact checking the Quebec Conservatives&#8217; tax-cut plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quebec Conservative Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime unveiled the first part of his party\u2019s tax-cut plan Friday, promising a typical Quebec household would ultimately <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/conservateur.quebec\/blog\/ressources\/recompenser-le-travail-avec-des-baisses-dimpots-historiques-11-166-par-menage-moyen\/\">save $11,166 over five years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0819-city-duhaime-3129_304761323.jpg\" alt=\"Quebec Conservative Party Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime speaks to the media.\" class=\"wp-image-100272973\"  \/>Quebec Conservative Party Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime speaks to the media after meeting Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada in Montreal on Aug. 18, 2026. Duhaime unveiled the first part of his party\u2019s tax-cut plan Friday, promising a typical Quebec household would save $11,166 over five years. Allen McInnis \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement came a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/quebec-elections\/quebec-general-election-launch-oct-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quebec\u2019s provincial election campaign began<\/a>. In making the case for his plan, Duhaime cited Quebec\u2019s tax burden, mortgage pressures and food-bank use as evidence households are struggling with the cost of living. The Gazette examined some of the key claims he and his party made Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-a-typical-quebec-household-would-save-11-166-over-five-years-under-four-pcq-tax-measures\">\u201cThe PCQ\u2019s four tax measures will put a total of $11,166 back in the pockets of a typical Quebec household.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec Conservative Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime unveiled the first part of his party\u2019s tax-cut plan Friday, promising a typical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,92296,120789],"class_list":["post-875215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-news-videos","tag-quebec-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}