Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette completes 100 days in office Friday after succeeding François Legault as the leader of the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) in April.
In a video posted on social media, Fréchette highlighted the CAQ government’s achievements so far, in a crucial election year.
“For the past 100 days, we’ve been carrying out our plan to advance your priorities,” Fréchette said. “We’re modernizing our hospitals in Quebec’s regions.”
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The premier also listed progress on several promises she made during her leadership campaign such as reducing taxes on certain consumer products, improving housing affordability and increasing daycare spots.
“We’re refunding the welcome tax for first-time homebuyers, and we’ve launched a program to build homes priced under $350,000,” she said in the video.
“We’ve accelerated the conversion of 5,000 unsubsidized daycare spots into subsidized ones to help families. We’ve lowered taxes for 75,000 small businesses. And we’re refunding the carbon tax for 15,000 farmers,” she added.
Fréchette also highlighted the introduction of two bills to protect the French language and the new strategy put in place to pass on Quebec culture to the province’s children.
“All of this in 100 days because I have a single goal in mind: to advance your priorities to build Quebec’s future,” said Fréchette, who also highlighted the $200 in assistance offered to lower-income Quebecers to cope with inflation.
100 jours.Déjà 100 jours que je me donne à 100 % pour faire avancer vos priorités. Et je ne suis pas près d’arrêter ! pic.twitter.com/Az0RmM234H
Fréchette is only the second woman to hold the post after Parti Québécois’ (PQ) Pauline Marois, who served as premier from 2012 to 2014.
Fréchette became the first person at the helm of the CAQ other than Legault, who created the party in 2011 and had been its sole leader. He stepped down after polls consistently showed the party was deeply unpopular.
However, with Fréchette as the leader, CAQ has regained some of the popularity with many polls showing a three-way race among the CAQ, the PQ and the Quebec Liberal Party.
Quebecers head to the polls Oct. 5.
