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Quebec

François Legault

In office

Premier

Coalition Avenir Québec

1,591 days in office

42nd Legislature of Quebec
03 Dec 2018 - 28 Aug 2022

43rd Legislature of Quebec
20 Oct 2022 - Present

The 2018 Quebec general election was held on October 1, 2018, to elect members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The election saw a landslide victory for the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) led by François Legault. The CAQ won 74 of 125 seats in the National Assembly which resulted in the party forming a majority government and unseating the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party from power.

The 2018 Quebec general election marked the first time the CAQ would form government. It was also the first election since 1966 that had been won by a party other than the Liberals or Parti Québécois. Legault is the province’s first nationalist centre-right premier since the Union Nationale left office in 1970.

In partnership with

Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship

Center for Public Policy Analysis (CAPP)

Le Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)

Promise History

Environment

43rd Legislature of Quebec

2.05.11 - “A re-elected CAQ government] will further assist municipalities [in Eastern Quebec, the North Shore, Gaspé and the Magdalen Islands] to fight shoreline erosion. An additional $100 million will be invested for this purpose in the next mandate. A project office to address the specific challenges of shoreline erosion will also be created. [It will facilitate the government coordination necessary to carry out projects related to shoreline erosion”

Visite de François Legault aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Translation)

Published: Sep 2022

Justification

The money has been spent, but the project office has not been created.

« Implanter des solutions d’adaptation pour l’érosion et la submersion côtières : 119,5 M $ [d’ici 2026-2027] »

Plan pour une économie verte 2030-Gouvernement du Québec

Published: May 2023

« Dans sa volonté d’aider les régions à faire face aux effets des changements climatiques, le gouvernement est fier d’annoncer un financement de près de 70 millions de dollars pour lutter contre l’érosion et la submersion côtières dans l’est du Québec. De cette somme, 9,4 millions de dollars seront consacrés à la protection d’infrastructures et de biens menacés par l’érosion dans la municipalité de Notre-Dame-du-Portage. […] L’aide financière découle de l’axe S’adapter aux changements climatiques du Plan pour une économie verte, lancé en 2020. Elle contribuera à la réalisation de six projets, sous la coordination du ministère de la Sécurité publique, soit au Bas-Saint-Laurent et en Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. »