As party rises in polls, Québec solidaire says it would spur a \u0027transportation revolution\u0027 by investing $50M in car sharing across the province.
“The CAQ is afraid of the youth vote and is trying to demotivate the youth vote,” QS co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said after meeting with Quebec City Mayor Bruno Marchand Tuesday afternoon.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
On Tuesday, Nadeau-Dubois reiterated that even though he asked his team to stop distributing those flyers, he sees nothing improper in students voting for candidates in ridings where they study, if they consider those ridings to be their home. Elections Quebec defines “home address” as “the place that you consider to be your principal residence and the address that you use to exercise your civil rights, for example on your income tax return, for your driver’s licence or social insurance.
Nadeau-Dubois welcomed a recent Léger poll that showed his party has nudged ahead of the Parti Québécois, the Conservatives and the Liberals to Meanwhile, an Ekos Research poll released Tuesday suggested QS is only 14 points behind the CAQ in voter intentions. That poll had the CAQ at 34.6 per cent, QS at 20.6 per cent, the PQ at 14.9, the Liberals at 14.3 and Conservatives at 12.3.Article content
He said the number of vehicles circulating on Quebec roads increased by 64 per cent in less than three decades, between 1990 and 2017, while the adult population grew only 25 per cent in that time.