Éric Girard

Girard prioritizes a frugal, responsible budget with targeted measures, converting 5,000 unsubsidized daycare spots to subsidized ones to help families and address homelessness and domestic violence, setting aside contingency funds while refusing direct gas relief for drivers.

Girard says it isn’t time for new spending or new promises; his upcoming budget will be “sober and targeted,” prioritizing core government functions and infrastructure, addressing urgent issues like conjugal violence and homelessness, and reserving funds for the incoming leader.

Éric Girard says he is committed to returning Quebec to a balanced budget, pursuing responsible management of the state, reducing the deficit (noting a $12.4 billion deficit for 2025-26), and will table a 'sober and targeted' budget without election promises.

Girard maintains the March 4, 2025 ban on importing American products and sales of non-compliant goods, while authorizing an exceptional, temporary restocking of certain U.S. products whose quality may decline, with proceeds donated to Food Banks of Quebec.

Éric Girard says he has raised concerns with his Ontario counterpart and argues that, given U.S. trade tensions, "now is not the time for measures that weaken Canadian supply chains."

Éric Girard says the government will prioritize reducing provincial debt and avoid increasing spending while running a deficit; he plans to use the $1.8 billion Green Fund surplus to pay down debt and transfer it to the Generations Fund for long-term flexibility.

Éric Girard supports repurposing U.S. liquor pulled from SAQ shelves in response to tariffs — donating it to charities and using it for hotel/catering training instead of destroying it — while acknowledging storage and expiry costs and benefits to Quebec producers.