Coalition Avenir Quebec: Brome-Missisquoi candidate Isabelle Charest<\/p>\n
The Quebec provincial election is quickly making its way around the corner with voting day taking place on Monday, Oct. 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n According to the \u00c9lections Quebec website, there are ten candidates running in the Brome-Missisquoi region for this year\u2019s election.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n These candidates are: Isabelle Charest (Coalition avenir Qu\u00e9bec), Pierre Fontaine (D\u00e9mocratie directe), S\u00e9bastien Houle (Ind\u00e9pendant), Alexandre Legault (Qu\u00e9bec solidaire), Lynn Moore (Canadian Party of Qu\u00e9bec), Caitlin Moynan (Green Party), Guillaume Paquet (Parti qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois), St\u00e9phanie Pr\u00e9vost (Parti conservateur du Qu\u00e9bec), Tommy Quirion-Bouchard (Climat Qu\u00e9bec), and Claude Vadeboncoeur (Quebec Liberal Party).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For the next week and half, CIDI 99.1 FM is sitting down with candidates who\u00a0 <\/span>will speak on their political platform and the issues they plan to address in the Brome-Missisquoi riding and at the provincial level.<\/p>\n CIDI sat down with Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) candidate Isabelle Charest who is hoping to get re-elected for another term after serving as the Member of National Assembly for Brome-Missisquoi, Minister of Sports, and Minister of Status of Women for the last four years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As a three time Olympic medalist, Charest explained that she entered politics to ensure that other people had the chance to accomplish their dreams and access to a healthy lifestyle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBecause I was lucky enough when I was younger to have opportunities to develop myself, to have access to my goals and dreams, that\u2019s one thing I wanted to give back to the youth,\u201d mentioned Charest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When she was elected four years ago, Charest said that her vision when taking on the role was to be there for the community on all fronts, something that she plans on continuing to pursue if re-elected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy vision of the role was really to be there for the citizens, to be there for the organizations of the county, for the people who are in need, to be present, to be the source of information and the link between what was provided by the government to the citizens,\u201d she emphasized. \u201cMy goal if I\u2019m elected for the next four years is to maintain that proximity with the citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n Charest\u2019s platform initiatives include addressing issues within the health care system, access to water, access to nature, and improving cell-phone coverage for Brome-Missisquoi<\/p>\n \u201cOf course we want to work on inflation and the cost of living because we have seen the big impact in (inflation) the Quebec families,\u201d added Charest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A challenge for the Brome-Missisquoi riding, explained Charest, is pressure on its services with an influx of newcomers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Despite an increase in population, she noted that the region is still experiencing a labor shortage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe newcomers don\u2019t really translate in a new workforce. A lot of them came from Montreal or the big cities and kept their job because now they have access to work from home. So, we don\u2019t have the big workforce that\u2019s coming from the newcomers, but they put pressure on the services we provide,\u201d explained Charest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As the current Minister of Sports, ensuring that Quebecers have access to sport programs, sport infrastructures, and sporting equipment is a top priority for Charest at the provincial level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe announced the engagement we have to provide $1.5 billion to build sport infrastructures. This is really important for smaller communities because they often don\u2019t have the financial resources to build those kind of infrastructures, but we know how important they are to maintain the population in their small communities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n As Quebec enters the election with language law Bill 96, Charest explained that it\u2019s important that the French language is protected and that better communication is necessary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re a very small community surrounded by English speakers, the United States, and the rest of Canada and we\u2019ve seen with all the stats that we need to protect French,\u201d she said. \u201cOne thing is for sure, is that we have to do that in respect of the Anglophone community and that\u2019s why we have to better communicate what is in that law.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Listen to the full interview below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coalition Avenir Quebec: Brome-Missisquoi candidate Isabelle Charest The Quebec provincial election is quickly making its way around the corner with voting day taking place on Monday, Oct. 3.\u00a0 According to the \u00c9lections Quebec website, there are ten candidates running in the Brome-Missisquoi region for this year\u2019s election.\u00a0 These candidates are: Isabelle Charest (Coalition avenir Qu\u00e9bec),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":118552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[1761,2151,19188,1219,19187,1548,17540,1507,19045],"radio":[246],"origine":[274,259,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118839,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118548\/revisions\/118839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118548"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=118548"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=118548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}