QUEBEC — Finance Minister Eric Girard’s five-year plan to balance the province’s books lacks details and fails to identify more than half of the measures needed to attain the goal, Quebec’s auditor-general says.

Worse, the plan contains no analysis on the capacity of the government to adequately finance its long-term spending commitments in health and education spending as it tries to attain this goal.

It also fails to take into account the reality of an aging population and shifting demographics.

Tabled in the National Assembly in the same week as Girard presented his fall economic update , interim auditor Alain Fortier was critical of Girard’s plan to balance the books by 2029-2030. He said it’s “incomplete” and poses the risk of obliging the government to change its future spending p

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