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Quebec Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette is expected to announce three new measures Monday \u2014 surpassing by around $80 million the budget initially set aside for Fran\u00e7ois Legault’s successor, a spokesperson for the finance minister’s office told Radio-Canada.<\/p>\n
The premier will be speaking in Saint-R\u00e9mi and Sherbooke, Que., to announce a reduction in vehicle registration fees and funding for more vulnerable people. <\/p>\n
That’s in addition to a provincial sales tax cut on certain groceries, which Fr\u00e9chette confirmed in a speech to Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec party members Saturday, in a bid to reduce Quebecers’ bills at check-out.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, the premier had to defend her spending after a Radio-Canada report revealed Finance Minister \u00c9ric Girard had warned Fr\u00e9chette earlier this month that she would surpass the $250-million fund allocated to her. <\/p>\n
The minister has since told Radio-Canada there is enough wiggle room in the budget for Fr\u00e9chette’s promises, given an increase in revenue and federal transfers.<\/p>\n
“The economic context has evolved considerably in recent months,” Girard wrote in a post to X. <\/p>\n
“Today, our government will take concrete and targeted measures to give households some breathing room, while respecting our ability to pay.”<\/p>\n
His office estimated that Fr\u00e9chette’s promises, including those to be announced on Monday, amount to $336 million.<\/p>\n
He said that, unlike the provincial sales tax cut on grocery items, the changes to vehicle registration fees and financial support to vulnerable people are “exceptional” measures that will not be renewed next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-459300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}