Rebranding of the Quebec Liberal Party on the environment

As the Quebec Liberal Party seeks to redefine itself less than a year before the provincial elections, leader Dominique Anglade wants the environment to be its main focus.

The province’s Opposition leader told liberals at a weekend political convention in Quebec City that environmental issues should be the issue on the ballot when Quebecers go to the polls in October 2022.

Anglade wants Quebec to fight climate change by building government-owned green hydrogen production capacity, something she says should not only be a central pillar of the liberal platform, but a key element of the upcoming election campaign. .

“I hope it will be the subject of the next elections,” he told reporters at the political convention on Saturday.

Anglade said he believes François Legault’s Avenir Québec Coalition government is not credible when it comes to combating climate change.

“It is quite clear that the CAQ has decided that this will not be a key issue for them,” he said.

The nationalization of green hydrogen production, which uses renewable energy to extract hydrogen from water through electrolysis, would be one of the pillars of a larger $ 100 billion environmental plan that Anglade said it would put in place if liberals they win the next Quebec elections.

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Anglade said green hydrogen could replace the fossil fuels used in trains, planes and ships and help reduce the use of hydrocarbon fuels in Quebec.

Anglade, who has led the Liberals for 18 months, said the party is in a process of redefinition under his leadership.

Recent polls have shown liberals a distant second behind the ruling Avenir Québec Coalition.

This Canadian Press report was first published on November 27, 2021.