What should they be doing instead?

What they shouldn’t do is vote for the Party that made us lag in GDP/capita like that. I would like a Conservative government.

What's the conservative platform promising that might help reverse that trend?

Less immigration, cutting taxes that are counter-productive since they are past t* of the Laffer Curves, tougher on crimes and less spending on woke shit. We need to cut the deficit and the Liberal gave money to everybody since it’s popular, a small part of the population are paying net taxes (after redistribution). Plus, a conservative government would exploit our natural ressources which aren’t currently being exploited to their full potential. Alberta are threatening to separate (they are conservative folks). That could be a problem for Quebec since Alberta contributes the most to the « péréquation » (transfer system that assure equality in services across Canada). Quebec is the province that receives the most with 14B$ in 2023-2024.

Isn't immigration already coming down rapidly? Aren't the most unpopular taxes already being cut, like the carbon tax? Tougher on crimes by injecting more into police departments? Police spending is already the biggest budget item across all Canadian cities, especially Montreal at ~18%. Second biggest is interest payments on their debt. Montreal spends ~16% of its budget on interest alone. Deficit spending is clearly a bad thing. Using more natural resources is probably the only thing that can help in the short term. As for the handouts, are you referring to the 2021 handouts that everyone got from the government? Like most countries did? Current handouts basically go to seniors (the second biggest budget item at the federal level), and a tiny amount to EI and other special cases. Seniors also consume the most in medical services so net net they are the biggest budget item at the federal level. Carbon credit handouts essentially cancel each other out. That said, the operating costs at the federal level have sky-rocketed, on paper it's the biggest budget item. Canadians could do with fewer CRA agents, and a number of other things but it likely won't fix the ~80B CAD deficit blowout once the capital gains inclusion rate gets rolled back. PP wants to fully cut CBC funding, which currently gets a total of $1B CAD. Just another $79B CAD if he succeeds. How much does Quebec receive in transfer payments per capita? How does that compare to transfers per capita in other provinces? Imagine a scenario where Canada dissolves and each province becomes their own country, they now keep all of the income tax that would otherwise go to the federal level. How do their finances look in that case?

There’s a lot of tax in Canada, the Income tax is terrible, tougher on crime is about the consequences of your act (linked to a thing that Trudeau did which release criminal) there’s a statistic where a minority of criminals are responsible of a majority of the crime (similar to Pareto law). For the handout, we spend a lot for socialist thing or for woke programs (billions abroad..) that are above our means. The government is too big and we have to reduce it, which is not a thing known by the Liberal government. Quebec is a net beneficiary of the transfer program, we have a plan budget of 14B$ deficit for 2025 with optimistic hypothesis and equalization. I would like a conservative government at the provincial level too, 338 polls got them at 14%. In Quebec, we still got the carbon tax and pay 28,3 cents/L more than ontario. You cannot take the word of the Liberal party about the carbon credit handouts cancellation, Trudeau self-admit that he’s not good with numbers and unable to do basic maths…