Questions on campaign trail come after the Journal de Quebec reported that Eric Duhaime owed $14,000 in municipal taxes
Duhaime told reporters in Montreal on Tuesday that he accepts responsibility and recently paid the outstanding bills.
Last week, the Journal de Quebec reported that Duhaime owed $14,000 in municipal taxes. And according to La Presse, there were also unpaid school taxes of $2,400 between October 2018 and January 2021 for which a bailiff was dispatched to find Duhaime after a ruling. Duhaime was asked Tuesday how someone aspiring to be premier can be trusted to manage the public purse if they can’t pay their own bills.
Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade said at the end of the day, all citizens are supposed to pay their taxes. “If you aspire to lead Quebec, the least you can do is lead by example and that’s not what he’s doing,” Anglade said in Boucherville, Que.
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