The Parti Québécois (PQ) says its members will donate nearly $80,000 in salary increases to community organizations across Quebec.
All four of the party’s MNAs are participating in the initiative after promising to do so when the national assembly adopted a bill last year that gave all 125 members of the Quebec legislature a $30,000 raise. The PQ and Québec solidaire (QS) voted against the bill sponsored by the Coalition Avenir Québec’s (CAQ) Simon Jolin-Barrette, while all MNAs from the CAQ and the Quebec Liberal Party voted for it.
The PQ had promised to only accept the average salary increase granted to public sector workers and donate the rest of the pay raise to charitable causes.
PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said he would donate $27,000 of his own money to more than 30 organizations across the province.
“It’s a question of being consistent with the people who elected …