$47-billion cut: Christine Fréchette condemns Conservatives’ pledge

Premier Christine Fréchette is criticizing the Quebec Conservatives (PCQ) for pledging to cut $47 billion from the province’s budget.

The pledge makes “no sense,” Fréchette said in a brief comment upon arriving at a press conference on Thursday.

She said she believes that such a move would amount to “dismantling” the province.

The premier is in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu to present three candidates, including Stéphane Bisaillon, the first vice-president of the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) federation in the Montérégie region.

His candidacy, in Huntingdon, was confirmed on Thursday by the farmers’ union.

–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews

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