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class="c-byline l-article__byline"> <div class="c-byline__text"> <div class="c-byline__attribution"> <span class="c-byline__by">By</span> <span class="c-byline__name">Morgan Lowrie</span> <span class="c-byline__source c-byline__source--noName"> The Canadian Press </span> </div> <div class="c-byline__datesWrapper"> <div class="c-byline__dates"> <div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--pubDate"> <span>Posted March 22, 2022 9:17 am</span> <button class="c-byline__dateToggle toggle-switch u-hide-tablet-portrait" aria-label="Toggle last modified date of the article" data-expand="#bylineDateUpdated" aria-expanded="false"> <span id="updated-toggle-off" class="toggle-off c-icon c-icon--arrowDown"> </span> <span id="updated-toggle-on" class="toggle-on c-icon c-icon--arrowUp "> </span> </button> </div> <div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--modDate is-expandable " id="bylineDateUpdated"> <span>Updated March 22, 2022 5:52 pm</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <figure class="l-article__featured "> <div class="c-figure__embed"> <div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-iframe-receiver data-autoplay="true" data-displayinline-featured="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_8701996_623a92e06147b" data-displayinline-video-id="8701996" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/8701996/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_8701996_623a92e06147b" data-displayinline-sticky="true"> <div class="c-video__inner"> <span class="c-video__placeholder"> <img class="c-video__image" alt="Click to play video: 'Éric Girard tables fourth budget with electoral flavor'" width="632" height="356" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/7ndhpz4pqu-qzia29f9xc/web_QUEBEC_BUDGET__HENRIQUEZ_.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" loading="lazy" srcset="" sizes="" 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style="position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade"> <p>The money will be transferred directly into Quebecers’ bank accounts after they file their 2021 tax returns, Finance Minister <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://globalnews.ca/tag/eric-girard">Eric Girard</a> told reporters Tuesday after tabling the budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year. It’s his fourth and last budget before Quebecers head to the polls in October.</p><p>Girard insisted the payments aren’t to curry votes and help his government win a second mandate but to help Quebecers weather significant inflation that the government expects will reach 4.7 per cent in 2022. Some 6.4 million Quebecers will receive the payment, at a total cost of $3.2 billion.</p><p>“Inflation is exceptional, so the compensation is exceptional,” Girard said of the $500 payments, adding that his government expects inflation to drop to 2.3 per cent by the second half of 2023.</p> <div class="c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad"> <div class="c-ad__label">Story continues below advertisement</div> <div id="gpt-ad-300250-10" class="c-ad__unit" data-ad-pos="10"> </div> <script> if ( typeof( gn_monetize ) !== 'undefined' && typeof( gn_monetize.Ads ) !== 'undefined' && gn_monetize.Ads.initialRequestMade() ) { // Ads script has been loaded, create the ad. gn_monetize.Ads.create( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-10","lazy":false,"targeting":{"pos":10,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-10"},"companion":false} ); } else { // if Ads script not yet loaded, queue up ad data for initialization. var gnAdSettings = gnAdSettings || {}; gnAdSettings.ads = gnAdSettings.ads || []; gnAdSettings.ads.push( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-10","lazy":false,"targeting":{"pos":10,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-10"},"companion":false} ); } </script> </div> <div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="readmore"> <p class="c-readmore"> <span class="c-readmore__label"><strong>Read more: </strong></span> <a class="c-readmore__link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://globalnews.ca/news/8699060/quebec-finance-minister-2022-2023-budget/" data-track-region="content-read-more" title="Quebec finance minister discusses deficit, economic growth ahead of Tuesday’s budget"> Quebec finance minister discusses deficit, economic growth ahead of Tuesday’s budget </a> </p> </div><p>The effects of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://globalnews.ca/tag/covid-19-pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, supply chain bottlenecks and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he added, have helped created a general rise in prices that has been “higher and more durable than originally anticipated.”</p><p>“The rise in gas prices is now; the rise in food prices is now,” Girard said, justifying the government’s decision to send payments to Quebecers instead of cutting income taxes. It’s not appropriate, he added, to cut taxes “while we are in a structural deficit.”</p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video"> <div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-iframe-receiver data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_8701998_623a92e0635c5" data-displayinline-video-id="8701998" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/8701998/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_8701998_623a92e0635c5" data-displayinline-sticky="true"> <div class="c-video__inner"> <span class="c-video__placeholder"> <img class="c-video__image" alt="Click to play video: 'Quebec’s finance minister defends his budget in one-on-one interview'" width="632" height="356" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1cbujl4o75-z38y6so5ww/web_FINANCE_MINISTER_INTERVIEW.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" loading="lazy" srcset="" sizes="" data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1cbujl4o75-z38y6so5ww/web_FINANCE_MINISTER_INTERVIEW.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w, https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1cbujl4o75-z38y6so5ww/web_FINANCE_MINISTER_INTERVIEW.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w, https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1cbujl4o75-z38y6so5ww/web_FINANCE_MINISTER_INTERVIEW.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w" data-sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px"> <span class="c-video__overlay"> <span class="c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon"> <svg class="c-icon c-icon--white c-video__play c-videoPlay__off" focusable="false"> <use xlink:href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/themes/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/icons/out/symbol/svg/sprite.symbol.svg?v=msjiw4cvn#play"></use> </svg> <svg class="c-icon c-icon--red c-video__play c-videoPlay__on" focusable="false"> <use xlink:href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/themes/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/icons/out/symbol/svg/sprite.symbol.svg?v=msjiw4cvn#play"></use> </svg> </span> <span class="c-video__data"> <time class="c-video__duration">1:59</time> <span class="c-video__title">Quebec’s finance minister defends his budget in one-on-one interview</span> </span> </span> </span> </div> </div> <figcaption class="c-video__caption c-caption"> <span class="c-caption__desc">Quebec’s finance minister defends his budget in one-on-one interview</span> </figcaption> </div><p>The Coalition Avenir Québec government’s budget projects a deficit this fiscal year of $6.5 billion — $2 billion lower than forecast in last spring’s budget. And while the operating deficit is projected to be $3 billion, that figure rises by $3.5 billion due to a payment into a fund dedicated to reducing the provincial debt — a transfer required under Quebec law.</p> <div class="c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad"> <div class="c-ad__label">Story continues below advertisement</div> <div id="gpt-ad-300250-11" class="c-ad__unit" data-ad-pos="11" loading="lazy"> </div> <script> if ( typeof( gn_monetize ) !== 'undefined' && typeof( gn_monetize.Ads ) !== 'undefined' && gn_monetize.Ads.initialRequestMade() ) { // Ads script has been loaded, create the ad. gn_monetize.Ads.create( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-11","lazy":true,"targeting":{"pos":11,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-11"},"companion":false} ); } else { // if Ads script not yet loaded, queue up ad data for initialization. var gnAdSettings = gnAdSettings || {}; gnAdSettings.ads = gnAdSettings.ads || []; gnAdSettings.ads.push( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-11","lazy":true,"targeting":{"pos":11,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-11"},"companion":false} ); } </script> </div> <p>Girard says the province is expected to return to balanced budgets by the 2027-28 fiscal year.</p><p>Quebec’s economy has posted a “remarkable” recovery from the pandemic, the finance minister said. GDP grew by 6.3 per cent in 2021 after shrinking by 5.5 per cent in 2020. GDP growth is projected to be 2.7 per cent in 2022, he said.</p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video"> <div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-iframe-receiver data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_8694045_623a92e063ad6" data-displayinline-video-id="8694045" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/8694045/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_8694045_623a92e063ad6" data-displayinline-sticky="true"> <div class="c-video__inner"> <span class="c-video__placeholder"> <img class="c-video__image" alt="Click to play video: 'Montreal food banks, families feeling effects of rising inflation rates'" width="632" height="356" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/2lnkpqmdl2-x2mi5v8rum/web_INFLATION_IMPACTS_ON_POVERTY__SARGEANT_.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" loading="lazy" srcset="" sizes="" data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/2lnkpqmdl2-x2mi5v8rum/web_INFLATION_IMPACTS_ON_POVERTY__SARGEANT_.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w, https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/2lnkpqmdl2-x2mi5v8rum/web_INFLATION_IMPACTS_ON_POVERTY__SARGEANT_.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w, https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/2lnkpqmdl2-x2mi5v8rum/web_INFLATION_IMPACTS_ON_POVERTY__SARGEANT_.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w" data-sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px"> <span class="c-video__overlay"> <span class="c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon"> <svg class="c-icon c-icon--white c-video__play c-videoPlay__off" focusable="false"> <use xlink:href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/themes/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/icons/out/symbol/svg/sprite.symbol.svg?v=msjiw4cvn#play"></use> </svg> <svg class="c-icon c-icon--red c-video__play c-videoPlay__on" focusable="false"> <use xlink:href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/themes/shaw-globalnews/assets/dist/icons/out/symbol/svg/sprite.symbol.svg?v=msjiw4cvn#play"></use> </svg> </span> <span class="c-video__data"> <time class="c-video__duration">2:03</time> <span class="c-video__title">Montreal food banks, families feeling effects of rising inflation rates</span> </span> </span> </span> </div> </div> <figcaption class="c-video__caption c-caption"> <span class="c-caption__desc">Montreal food banks, families feeling effects of rising inflation rates</span> </figcaption> </div><p>The budget comes in the wake of exceptional spending by the government to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. It estimates the pandemic’s financial impact on the province will reach a total of $18.3 billion by the 2024-25 fiscal year.</p> <section id="content-dynamic-trending-stories" class="l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape" aria-label="Dynamic trending stories section"> <div class="l-inlineStories__heading"> <span class="l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough">Trending Stories</span> </div> <ul class="c-posts c-posts--inline"> <li class="c-posts__item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://globalnews.ca/news/8697367/china-eastern-flight-132-onboard-south/" class="c-posts__inner"> <div class="c-posts__media l-relatedStories__media"> <img class="c-posts__thumbnail" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CP12341121.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=336&h=224&crop=1" loading="lazy" width="336" height="224" alt=""/> </div> <div class="c-posts__details"> <div class="c-posts__headline "> <span class="c-posts__headlineText" data-title>China Eastern plane crash: No survivors found as search continues for 132 onboard</span> </div> <div class="c-posts__author"></div> </div> </a> </li> <li class="c-posts__item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://globalnews.ca/news/8698075/prince-william-kate-middleton-royal-tour-protests-jamaica-belize/" class="c-posts__inner"> <div class="c-posts__media l-relatedStories__media"> <img class="c-posts__thumbnail" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1386775883.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=336&h=224&crop=1" loading="lazy" width="336" height="224" alt=""/> </div> <div class="c-posts__details"> <div class="c-posts__headline "> <span class="c-posts__headlineText" data-title>Prince William, Kate face more protests, backlash as tour continues to Jamaica</span> </div> <div class="c-posts__author"></div> </div> </a> </li> </ul> </section> <p>The budget for the coming fiscal year includes $3.7 billion of new spending, with programs aimed at restoring the health system after the pandemic and stimulating economic growth receiving the largest amounts.</p><p>Total new program spending is earmarked at $22 billion over five years, including $8.9 billion into the health system, $2.8 billion into education programs and $4.2 billion into programs to stimulate economic growth.</p> <div class="c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad"> <div class="c-ad__label">Story continues below advertisement</div> <div id="gpt-ad-300250-12" class="c-ad__unit" data-ad-pos="12" loading="lazy"> </div> <script> if ( typeof( gn_monetize ) !== 'undefined' && typeof( gn_monetize.Ads ) !== 'undefined' && gn_monetize.Ads.initialRequestMade() ) { // Ads script has been loaded, create the ad. gn_monetize.Ads.create( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-12","lazy":true,"targeting":{"pos":12,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-12"},"companion":false} ); } else { // if Ads script not yet loaded, queue up ad data for initialization. var gnAdSettings = gnAdSettings || {}; gnAdSettings.ads = gnAdSettings.ads || []; gnAdSettings.ads.push( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-12","lazy":true,"targeting":{"pos":12,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-12"},"companion":false} ); } </script> </div> <p>While Girard painted a rosy picture of the province’s finances, he warned of economic uncertainly surrounding a potential resurgence of COVID-19, further disruption of supply chains, and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>He said the budget includes “important contingencies” totalling $8.5 billion over the next five years that could be used on health or economic spending.</p><p>Quebec is likely to be affected by the war in Europe “to a lesser extent,” according to the budget, because Ukraine only accounts for 0.3 per cent of the province’s exports. But the war has helped raise the prices of oil and food, which will add to existing inflationary pressure.</p><p>The government says inflation in the province hit 5.1 per cent in January and 5.4 per cent in February, which it says justifies the direct payments to Quebecers.</p><h2>‘Quebecers are financing those cheques themselves’</h2><p>But opposition parties came out strongly against the decision to redistribute billions into people’s bank accounts, accusing it of trying to win votes.</p><p>Liberal finance critic Carlos Leitao said the budget “seems to have been structured to deliver a significant payment to over six million Quebecers just in time for the election. There seems to be no vision beyond that.”</p><p>He suggested the government is bribing Quebecers with their own money, pointing to the fact the government collected over $3 billion more than anticipated in income taxes in the 2021-22 fiscal year.</p> <div class="c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad"> <div class="c-ad__label">Story continues below advertisement</div> <div id="gpt-ad-300250-13" class="c-ad__unit" data-ad-pos="13" loading="lazy"> </div> <script> if ( typeof( gn_monetize ) !== 'undefined' && typeof( gn_monetize.Ads ) !== 'undefined' && gn_monetize.Ads.initialRequestMade() ) { // Ads script has been loaded, create the ad. gn_monetize.Ads.create( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-13","lazy":true,"targeting":{"pos":13,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-13"},"companion":false} ); } else { // if Ads script not yet loaded, queue up ad data for initialization. var gnAdSettings = gnAdSettings || {}; gnAdSettings.ads = gnAdSettings.ads || []; gnAdSettings.ads.push( 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recovery measures.</p><p>Revenues for this fiscal year are estimated to be $138.5 billion, a rise of 2.2 per cent, and Girard has budgeted spending increases of 6.3 per cent and 5.4 per cent for the health-care and school systems, respectively.</p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="caption"> <figure class="c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable"> <div class="c-figure__inner"> <div class="c-figure__imageWrapper "> <img class="c-figure__image" alt="Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard, centre is applauded by members of the government as he presents the government’s budget." src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258im_/https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CP153051960.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=12&h=12&crop=1" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035258/https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CP153051960.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=1200" srcset="" sizes="" 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figure rises to a deficit of $6.5 billion when taking into account a $3.5 billion payment into a fund dedicated to reducing the provincial debt, in accordance with Quebec law.</li><li>GDP growth is projected to be 2.7 per cent in 2022, after it grew by 6.3 per cent in 2021, following the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.</li><li>Revenues for this fiscal year are estimated to be $138.5 billion, a rise of 2.2 per cent.</li><li>Program spending will total $128 billion and debt service will be $8.8 billion.</li><li>Spending on health care and social services will rise by 6.3 per cent, to $54 billion, and spending on the school system will increase by 5.4 per cent, to $19 billion.</li><li>COVID-19 support programs will total $2.4 billion this fiscal year.</li><li>Quebec’s gross debt will be $215.3 billion, or 43.1 per cent of GDP.</li><li>Strong economic performance in 2021 led to an adjustment of $4 billion more in corporate taxes and an adjustment of $3.2 billion more in personal 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