“The $500 is the best measure under current conditions — we want to trust Quebecers”

At a CN conference with the Montreal Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard spoke about the recently announced Quebec budget, and further justified the decision to pay $500 to all Quebecers making less than $100,000 per year.

According to Girard, giving $500 to Quebecers is the “best measure,” given the circumstances, to fight rising levels of inflation.

“Making a budget means maximizing under constraints. The $500 is the best measure under current conditions. We want to trust Quebecers.

—Eric Girard

The finance minister also spoke about the level of debt in Quebec, in relation to other provinces.

”We have reduced the weight of the debt, and we want to converge towards the level of debt of the average of the Canadian provinces. For this, income must grow more than expenditure.

”On the workforce, we announced $4-billion last fall. We are now in a phase where we want to evaluate the results of our measures.”

—Eric Girard

(2/4) Conférence @CNRailway avec @EricGirardMFQ sur le #budgetqc2022 : « Faire un budget, c'est maximiser sous contraintes. Les 500$, c'est la meilleure mesure dans les conditions actuelles. Nous voulons faire confiance aux Québécois » – @EricGirardMFQ #CCMM pic.twitter.com/NOadpAxyhz

— Chambre de commerce (@chambremontreal) March 28, 2022

For more on the Quebec budget for 2022, please visit the Government of Quebec website.

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