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Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois speaks to supporters during a campaign stop in Chateauguay, Quebec September 1, 2012. (CHRISTINNE MUSCHI/REUTERS)
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Quebec budget delivers dose of austerity — and a reality check
DAVID PARKINSON
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Quebec has always felt like a little pocket of Europe within North America. So it’s fitting that the new provincial government’s first budget contains a lot of what we’ve seen out of Europe lately: austerity, tax hikes and economic disappointment. It’s the necessary medicine for Quebec’s increasingly unhealthy debt condition – but it won’t taste good.
