Duhaime argued that building a third link between Quebec City and Lévis and approving a liquid natural gas project in the Saguenay could have been launched despite the health crisis.
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La Presse Canadienne
Lia Lévesque
With one week left in the provincial election campaign Quebec Conservative Party leader Éric Duhaime on Monday recited a list of promises he said had been made and broken by François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government, a list that ranged from access to a family physician to waiting lists for places in daycare.
Speaking to reporters in Laval, Duhaime rejected Legault’s claim that he was unable to fulfill all of his 2018 campaign pledges because of the pandemic.
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Duhaime argued that building a third link between Quebec City and Lévis and approving a liquid natural gas project in the Saguenay could have been launched despite the health crisis.
The other promises Duhaime said Legault reneged on: reducing the size of government, permitting more private sector participation in the health care network, reducing wait times for health care, exploiting Quebec’s hydrocarbon resources and establishing a provincial register of convicted pedophiles.
The Conservative leader meanwhile said he was encouraged by the high turnout at the advance polls on Sunday, predicting it could be a good sign for his party.
However Duhaime expressed concerns that because of the current electoral system — a first-past-the-post system Legault had pledged in 2018 to abolish — the provincial Conservatives could poll 20 per cent of the popular vote and still be shut out from winning even one of the 125 seats in the National Assembly. Duhaime described such an outcome as a “hijacking of democracy.”
