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April 16:  Premier-designate Jean Charest will take over the reins of power from Bernard Landry on Tueday April 29th. The two men met today in Quebec City to discuss the transition from a PQ to a Liberal government. Matthew Pace reports.[Runs 1:48]   The election results were extremely disappointing for ADQ leader Mario Dumont. He has only four seats, one less than before the election. And even though the the ADQ vote grew, it didn't hit the level needed for official party status in the National Assembly. A sombre Dumont met the media today. Amanda Pfeffer reports.[Runs 2:05]  Jean Charest has promised billions of dollars in new health care spending. The hope is to speed up surgery and cut hospital waiting lists. Yves Dugré, head of the Quebec Federation of Specialized Doctors, is hopeful Charest's plan will work. Tim Duboyce reports from Montreal.[Runs 0:59]  Jean Charest got his first look at his new office when he met Bernard Landry Tuesday. Along with the job he says he will move into the Premier's official residence: the penthouse appartment atop Quebec City's Price building. Charest will be sworn in along with his new cabinet on the 29th: he plans to recall a National Assembly in late May. Rick Kalb reports from Quebec City. [Runs 1:08] April 15: The day after winning 76 seats and a majority government, Liberal leader and Premier-designate Jean Charest was in a buoyant mood. Matthew Pace has more.[Runs 2:05] April 14: On Monday, during CBC Radio's coverage of election night, Bernard St-Laurent and Dave Bronstetter talked with candidates from the three main parties. Though the Parti Québécois went down to defeat, with 39.6% of the popular vote, PQ candidate Marie Malavoy battled with Jean Charest for the Sherbrooke riding. [Runs 4:24] The Parti Québécois' candidate Daniel Turp won the Mercier riding with 45.26% of the popular vote. Turp says his focus will be on poverty, the environment and culture within this riding. [Runs 2:52] Former mayor of Montreal, Pierre Bourque was the ADQ's star candidate. He lost the Bourget riding by a wide margin to the Parti Québécois' Diane Lemieux. [Runs 2:45] April 11:  The leader of the Parti Québécois, Bernard Landry joins Dennis Trudeau for a one-on-on interview from St. Antoine de Tilly, in the Lotbinière riding near Quebec City.[Runs 4:03] Mario Dumont has some harsh words for Quebec pollsters. Pollsters admit that with three main parties in this campaign, it is hard to figure out how to partition undecided voters three ways. Dumont likens the whole process to a vaudeville act and says that voters are laughing at the imperfect science of measuring public opinion. Brett Ballah reports from Trois-Rivières. [Runs 0:53] Jean Charest says he received the PQ documents on the four-day work week Friday morning. He says that judging from the contents, the PQ did very little serious work to prepare for one of its key election promises. Tim Duboyce reports from Sherbrooke, Que.[Runs 0:58] Bernard Landry has refused to comment on polls since the beginning of this campaign. However, Friday morning's Léger Marketing and CROP polls that both put Jean Charest's Liberals ahead may get him to change his mind. Rick Kalb reports from Montreal. [Runs 0:57] Mario Dumont claims there is a place for parties on the right of the political spectrum in Quebec. He says this will be proven on election day. Dumont dismisses a right-wing label for the Action Démocratique. He says the ideas of left and right are outmoded. Brett Ballah has more from Repentigny, Que. [Runs 0:52] Before Jean Charest received a package from Bernard Landry outlining the origin of the four-day work week plan, he said the fact the PQ took so long to produce the study is proof there is no study at all. He says, as with health care and referendums, Landry made him wait. Tim Duboyce reports. [Runs 0:59] The PQ leader failed to produce the studies on the origin of the four-day work week as promised Thursday morning, so he had to stage a news conference Thursday afternoon to show the package of studies.They are neither conclusive nor exhaustive. They include legislation from Britain and Belgium, as well as a few university papers, including one from Guelph, Ont. Landry admits he has not read all of them. Rick Kalb reports. [Runs 1:08] A small crowd waited for the PQ election caravan to roll into the Rivière du Chène vignard near St-Eustache Thursday evening. They came to ask Bernard Landry to intervene to keep their school open.The Jacques-Labrie School is unique, offering intensive English training to ten classes of grade six francophone students. The school board wants to shut it down, and Landry couldn't offer much comfort to the parents. Rick Kalb reports from St-Eustache. [Runs 1:09] Here is a tale of two ridings. One always seems to pick the winning party in Quebec elections. The other is on a losing streak. Matthew Pace has the story.[Runs 2:40] April 10:  On the election campaign trail today, more questions about the Parti Québécois plan for a four-day work week. Questions the PQ leader Bernard Landry seems to have a tough time answering. Lynda Calvert reports.[Runs 1:55] Quebec Liberal leader Jean Charest sits down with Dennis Trudeau for a one-on-one interview.[Runs 7:08] Jean Charest says it is time for Quebecers to take one last look at Bernard Landry's track record. Charest want to know where Landry's fiscal framework is and how he plans on paying for the 3.7 billion dollars in spending promises since February. Tim Duboyce reports from Montreal.[Runs 0:58] At a Thursday afternoon news conference, the PQ leader showed reporters a box of documents ready to send Federal Express to Liberal leader Jean Charest. This was supposed proof that the four day week was well documented. But Bernard Landry refused to give the same documents to reporters until well after the conference had started. He seemed ill at ease and unsure of what the box actually contained. Though he had lots of documents, he had few answers. Rick Kalb reports from St-Eustache. [Runs 1:00] The Action Démocratique du Québec's economic message is fairly simple. Pay off the debt now while the economy is hot, because the future is not so bright. The party's economic critic Diane Bellemare elaborates. Brett Ballah reports from Beloeil, Que. [Runs 1:02] François Legault, warming up a crowd of almost 2,000 PQ supporters, said that Jean Charest and his federal Liberal friends cannot be counted on to stand up for Quebec. PQ leader Bernard Landry also said that their fight for re-election is a crusade to Quebec's independence. Rick Kalb reports from Longueuil. [Runs 0:48] Soft rock radio stations provide Bernard Landry with the kind of media coverage he wants: "soft" questions about his new love, his former wife and his passion for meeting new people. He and his advisors say the other media—newspaper articles and TV reports—have not reflected him in the best light. Rick Kalb reports. [Runs 1:14] On Thursday morning, the premier opened his news conference by telling reporters he had a surprise for them. In the end, the surprise was on Bernard Landry himself. He expected his staff to deliver studies that would back-up and flesh-out his promise of a four-day work week. The studies did not surface. They were once again promised at a second news conference hastily scheduled for Thursday afternoon. Rick Kalb was there. [Runs 1:08] Mario Dumont says PQ Employment Minister Agnès Maltais crossed the line when she called a street nurse in Quebec City. Dumont warns that unless the Premier disassociates himself from Maltais, he will send the message to the ministers that it is OK to influence people using public money. Brett Ballah reports from St-Eustache, Que. [Runs 0:56] April 9: With four full days of campaigning left, ADQ leader Mario Dumont sits down with Dennis Trudeau for a one-on-one interview.[Runs 5:53] Liberal leader Jean Charest was campaigning in the Quebec City area today. The region is a key to Liberal hopes of forming a government on Monday. Matthew Pace reports.[Runs 1:32] Jean Charest is accusing Bernard Landry of improvising the idea of a four-day work week at the beginning of the campaign. During the leader's debate, Landry said that the PQ has studied the idea for more than a year. However, Finance Minister Pauline Marois said she did not learn about the promise until it was announced. Charest says that if the PQ has indeed studied the notion of a four-day work week, that these studies should be made public, public funds having paid for them.Tim Duboyce reports from:
Reporter Jacklin Lu brings us the story of Josephine Primiani, who has a child with an intellectual disability. For the past five years Primiani has received help from a social worker, but now that help is jeopardized because of a lack of bilingual service. Jacklin Lu explains. [Runs 0:51] The Action Démocratique du Québec held its last major rally of the campaign Tuesday night in Quebec City, but it wasn't quite what the party had hoped for. Dumont has been talking about how the election campaign will be won on the ground. But the rally provided little evidence the ADQ's much-vaunted machine is winning the battle. Brett Ballah reports from Quebec City. [Runs 1:05] The president of the Federation of Independant Business says the PQ leader led him to believe the 4 day work week would be something employers and workers would negotiate depending on the needs of each business. However Parti Québécois leader Bernard Landry is adament that if the PQ is elected, they will bring in legislation to force companies to give employees with young children the equivalent of a four-day work week, despite business resistance. Rick Kalb reports from Quebec City. [Runs 1:11] ADQ candidate Joëlle Lescop is campaigning with Liberal candidate Brigitte Mercier to take the Vachon riding away from the PQ. David Payne held the riding for the PQ but has made way for star candidate Camil Bouchard. Lescop is out campaigning 7 days a week. Jacklyn Lu reports from Vachon. [Runs 1:11] April 8: Liberal leader Jean Charest will not say which government departments he would cut in order to lower taxes and spend more on health and education. But Charest does believe the best defence is a good offence. His star economic candidate was finding fault with the PQ's number crunching. Matthew Pace has the story.[Runs 1:33] PQ leader Bernard Landry is trying to get his campaign back on track by returning to the issues that did well for him at the start of the campaign. Lynda Calvert reports.[Runs 1:38] The Quebec City region has become a major focus for all three parties. A new SOM poll for the CBC's French network suggests a tight three-way race with the ADQ showing surprising strength. Today Mario Dumont made his final push through the region. Amanda Pfeffer reports.[Runs 1:27] Election campaigns are usually low-key in Quebec's northern riding of Ungava. But the Grand Chief of the James Bay Cree, Ted Moses, heated things up when he threw his support behind Bernard Landry and the Parti Québécois. That surprise endorsement may not work out as planned. Ernest Webb has the story. [Runs 3:20]  The PQ government announced at the end of February it was setting up a commission to study forestry practices in Quebec. Roger Nicolet was hired to head that inquiry. A few days later, the writ was dropped for the April 14th election. Since then, enviromental groups say that have heard nothing more of the commission, its mandate, or how quickly it would be implemented. Loreen Pindera explains.[Runs: 1:02] Mario Dumont says that it is "almost blackmail". He was responding to what he describes as the PQ's trade-off: he says the party is promising democratic reform and de-centralized power if Quebec becomes independant. Brett Ballah reports from the campaign trail in Quebec City. [Runs: 1:04] Bernard Landry was trying to recapture centre stage in the election campaign on Tuesday by flushing out his promises to give parents of young children flexible work schedules equal to a four-day work week. He wants to dispel the myth put foward by Finance Minister Pauline Marois that their four-day-week plan is improvised, pointing out that this policy has been part of the party platform since 1996. Rick Kalb reports from Quebec City. [Runs: 1:07] A few hundred people packed into a small community hall in the Gouin riding to watch Haitian dancers in brightly coloured costumes. The multi-ethnic crowd was out to support Liberal candidate William Aguilar and to meet Jean Charest. Referring to his Irish roots, Charest touts diversity and inclusion as key values for the Liberal party. Tim Duboyce has more from Laval.[Runs: 0:59] Mario Dumont says he has met a number of people who share his ideology, but says the support he gets face-to-face does not seem to translate into voting intention and opinion polls. Brett Ballah, reporting from the Saguenay, has more on why this is the case. [Runs: 0:51] Jean Charest says Quebec's economic state is grim. He states that among all provinces and American states, Quebec ranks 52nd. He blames this on PQ policies, accusing the PQ of taxing everything that moves and subsidizing the rest. Tim Duboyce reports. [Runs: 1:04] April 7: With only one week left in the election campaign, Jean Charest's message has been sidetracked by one of his Federal colleagues. Mattew Pace has more.[Runs 1:46] PQ leader Bernard Landry was on the campaign trail in the Quebec City area today talking about the Quebec region, health and sovereignty. Dennis Trudeau has more.[Runs 1:00] In the last week of the campaign, ADQ leader Mario Dumont will focus on ridings where he hopes his party has the best chance of winning. Amanda Pfeffer is covering the ADQ campaign.[Runs 1:38] Jean Charest doesn't have a problem with federal politicians getting involved in his campaign. Several Chrétien Liberals including Lucienne Robillard and André Harvey have appeared at Liberal rallies. Some think that Charest is being too cozy with Ottawa. Tim Duboyce has more from Laval.[Runs: 0:58] Mario Dumont may have given up on the idea of sitting in the premier's chair, but he has not given up on the idea of holding the balance of power. He talks about the notion that the ADQ could form a minority government, especially if the ADQ pulls off a few upsets. Brett Ballah has more from the Saguenay. [Runs: 0:51] Mario Dumont will be making two stop-overs in Quebec City this week. He has the support of 1/4 of the voters in the Quebec City region. Brett Ballah reports on how the ADQ party is faring in the other ridings. [Runs: 0:59] Mario Dumont says the politics of meeting everyday Quebecers is where the Action Démocratique du Québec party gets the best reception, no matter what the poll results say. Brett Ballah has more from Quebec City. [Runs: 1:02] Bernard Landry arrives in Cabano, Que. to give a boost to Harold Lebel. A former advisor to Landry, he is running for the PQ in a bid to take the riding from the Liberals. Landry focused his attack on federal Liberal MPs and cabinet minister Lucienne Robillard who have shown up at rallies to support the provincial Liberals. Rick Kalb reports from Cabano, Que. [Runs: 0:54] Mario Dumont claims regional air services in Quebec are disastrous. Air Canada is cutting service and he expects the company to make further cuts in the province. This, despite an agreement giving Air Canada the lion's share of government business. Does Mario Dumont have a plan? Brett Ballah reports. [Runs: 1:09] |
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