Notes

Party Leader: Gilles Duceppe

Status Prior to Dissolution: Opposition Party

Seats Prior to Dissolution: 48

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Economy

• Re-establish the funding of economic and social development organizations.

• Develop a comprehensive support plan for the manufacturing and forest industries.

• Implement one tax return.

• Take various measures to reduce Québec’s dependence on oil.

Environment

• Fight climate change — apply the Kyoto Protocol, with a true carbon market, based on a territorial approach.

• Provide tax incentives to help families convert their home heating system from heating oil to electricity, which is mainly produced from renewable energy.

• Provide a refundable tax credit for transit passes.

• Re-establish and improve the eco AUTO Rebate Program for fuel-efficient vehicles.

Families

• Implement a 10-year, interest-free loan program for first-time home buyers.

• Provide financing to maintain and build social housing.

• Adopt a federal pay equity act.

• Maintain the rights acquired by women, particularly with respect to abortion.

• Increase payments under the Employment Insurance system.

• Implement an income support program for older workers.

• Provide an $8,000 tax credit for new graduates who return to the regions to work and live there.

• Transfer $3.5 billion for post-secondary education.

• Immediately increase the monthly benefits for the least wealthy seniors by $110.

• Provide full retroactivity of benefits for seniors who suffered serious financial harm.

Education/the Arts

• Remove the GST on books.

• Re-establish cultural programs.

• Permit income averaging for artists’ income.

Justice

• Keep the gun registry.

• Oppose capital punishment.

• Oppose toughening the Young Offenders Act.

• Step up gang enforcement efforts: Make it illegal to wear insignia associating an individual with a criminal gang.

• Confiscate goods acquired by criminal means by reversing the onus.

• Implement a series of measures to provide police forces with the means to fight street gangs.

• Abolish release after one-sixth of a sentence has been served.

• Eliminate the almost-automatic statutory release (release after two-thirds of a sentence has been served).

• Abolish the double credit practice which involves giving double the amount of credit for time spent in custody awaiting trial.

• Examine all federal programs that could affect individuals’ right to live in Quebec’s regions and use the land.

Other

• Pass an act that allows for the application of Bill 101 throughout Quebec — to protect our language.

• Pass an amendment allowing Quebec to opt out of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act — to ensure our integration model is respected.

• Reach an agreement to transfer control over telecommunications to Québec — to control our cultural tools

• Completely eliminate the fiscal imbalance and eliminate the spending power that the federal government has arrogated to itself.