{"id":1397,"date":"2014-01-02T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/02\/bill-60-hearings-coming-up-echo-bi\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:23","slug":"bill-60-hearings-coming-up-echo-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/02\/bill-60-hearings-coming-up-echo-bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill 60 hearings coming up echo Bill 14’s lengthy debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

PQ’s politics of distraction mask province’s growing debt and sagging economy<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

By Kevin Woodhouse<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

At the start of last year, The Suburban<\/i> spoke to Jacques Cartier MNA Geoffrey Kelley as the Parti qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/i> was starting its consultation for the eventual adoption of Bill 14, a law designed to tighten language laws in the province. <\/p>\n

Kelley noted that “It is very disappointing to see the government moving ahead on things that could hurt the economy. Pushing the language debate and sovereignty is not acting in the best interest of Quebecers when there are proposed cutbacks in infrastructure spending when there are lots of pending issues for West Island residents.”<\/p>\n

“Bill 14 is opening up questions that we had hoped had been solved already,” Kelley said. “The province needs to generate wealth to get out of debt and get the economy on track, not have more language police and debates.” <\/p>\n

And while public protest and uproar eventually squashed the noxious bill, days and weeks were taken up on the sole issue, while the province’s debt continues to mount, the unemployment rate is higher in the province than the rest of the country and our growth is slower as well. <\/p>\n

And instead of getting our resource-rich province out of the have-not category, relying less on transfer payments from other resource rich provinces like Alberta, 2014 will start with public hearings on Bill 60, an invent-a-crisis proposed law that will only serve to divide Quebecers event further, which seems to be the government’s plan in the even the second referendum, many now believe the Marois government is doing whatever they can to prepare the field for a third referendum Aside from the PQ\u2019s usual obsessions about language and culture, the Marois administration has also made every effort to cut expenses as it struggled to keep the province\u2019s balance sheet from slipping into a billion dollar deficit.<\/p>\n

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\nEven so, Quebec\u2019s Finance Minister Nicholas Marceau had to recently report that the province missed its mark by some $2.5 billion dollars. As if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, recent reports indicate that the province\u2019s entire education system is being affected by assorted budget cuts as recent figures indicate that high school students who happen to live in the city\u2019s west end have twice the chances of graduating with a high school degree than do high school students who live east of the D\u00e9carie Expressway. As a final irony, junior college students within the city\u2019s French-speaking CEGEP system are reported to fear and loathe the province\u2019s final French exam, without which they cannot graduate.<\/p>\n

As of the week before Christmas,  the Institut de la Statistique du Qu\u00e9bec<\/i> released its annual report which indicates that only Prince Edward Island (population 138,000) has less disposable income per family than Quebec. As Quebec is already known as the most taxed province in the nation, the institute\u2019s figures indicate that the province\u2019s tax policies $26,347 worth of disposable income per family lags far behind the Canadian average which was pegged at $29,907 per family.<\/p>\n

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\nJust as many blame the province\u2019s onerous tax policies as being one of the major reasons why Quebecers have less money in their pocket, Quebec\u2019s Premier Marois is still talking about le mod\u00e9le Qu\u00e9becois<\/i> as an ideal economic model for the 21st century. While the province doesn\u2019t have the resources, the population, the capital and the workforce it needs to build a successful working environment, Madame Marois should consider that it\u2019s going to take a lot more than wishful thinking and massive government subsidies to rebuild Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s faltering economy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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