Le budget du ministre des Finances Raymond Bachand continue de soulever le mécontentement auprès de la population. Une autre manifestation s'est tenue dimanche, cette fois à Québec.
Des milliers de protestataires se sont regroupés en avant-midi devant le Musée national des beaux-arts. À 13 h, ils ont commencé à se diriger vers le parlement.
Les organisateurs ont qualifié la manifestation de « citoyenne », n'ayant aucune affiliation politique. Ils ont affirmé représenter la « majorité silencieuse » qui n'en peut plus, selon eux, d'être « étranglée » par les taxes de toutes sortes.
Les organisateurs avaient invité les manifestants à se vêtir de rouge et à se munir de balais et de vadrouilles pour montrer au gouvernement qu'un ménage s'impose dans les finances publiques.
En guise de symbole, des manifestants ont laissé leur chemise sur le parterre de l'Assemblée nationale.
Rappelons qu'une récente manifestation similaire, à Montréal, a rassemblé près de 15 000 personnes.
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Up to 50,000 protest Charest's tax hikes

Quebec's 'silent majority' calls for cleanup of government spending

By Kevin Dougherty, Gazette Quebec Bureau April 11, 2010 3:23 PM





Quebec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand (left) shakes hands with Premier Jean Charest after unveiling the 2010 budget at the National Assembly in Quebec City March 30, 2010.

Photograph by: Mathieu Belanger , Reuters
QUEBEC – Between 45,000 and 50,000 people organizers described as members of Quebec's "silent majority" demonstrated peacefully Sunday in front of the National Assembly against tax hikes in the recent provincial budget.
They assembled on the Plains of Abraham and marched along Grande Allée to the assembly, branishing brooms, mops and picket signs.
Parents with young children in strollers joined the protest, as participants called for the govenment to clean up its own spending before imposing new taxes.
The budget proposes the gradual introduction, over two years, of a 15-per-cent sales tax, after harmonization of the Quebec sales tax with the federal goods and services tax.
The first of four one-cent-a-litre increases in the fuel tax is already in effect.
The government has propsed a flat $200 charge for health care plus a $25 user fee for doctor's visits, higher electrity and other charges.
Organizer Patrick Gagnon said Quebecers are fed up and the "Cols rouges" movement, which worked with Corus radio station FM 93 to organize the protest, plans more actions.
Gagnon said the Cols rouges are not affiliated with any political party.
Sylvain Bouchard, the FM 93 morningman, stressed the event was peaceful.
"Usually it is the lobbies who impose their agenda," Bouchard said. "We wanted to give a chance to ordinary people.
"We were all volunteers."
Participants left behind shirts, to make the point that Premier Jean Charest wants the shirts off taxpayers' backs.
The shirts were loaded into a cube truck to be given to the poor.
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