The hot-button issue of health care has emerged in the Quebec election campaign in the form of promises for more family doctors as well as subsidized eyewear for youngsters.
On Thursday, Liberal leader Philippe Couillard is promising to increase the number of family doctors available to Quebecers — a contentious issue that dogged his government during its first mandate.
The Liberals want an additional 900,000 Quebecers to have a family doctor by the end of a second mandate, or 90 per cent of all Quebecers.
Currently, about 80 per cent have a GP to call their own.
Aware that health care consistently appears to be voters' biggest concern, Couillard also said today his government would spend an additional $200 million to hire nurse-practitioners, home-care personnel and other health-care staff.
The Coalition Avenir Quebec, meanwhile, says it will reimburse up to $250 every two years for anyone 17 or under who needs glasses or contact lenses.
CAQ leader François Legault made the promise in eastern Quebec on Day 8 of the provincial election campaign and said good vision is essential to success in school.
Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée, for his part, is proposing a program that they say will promote a better work life balance, while reducing taking more vehicles off the road.
It would pay companies $400 for every one of their workers that works from home one or two days per week.
He wants 200,000 more Quebecers to join what he calls the tele-workforce.
Québec Solidaire's Manon Massé was on the riverside in Rimouski, to announce a plan to protect marine areas — she says the party would move quickly to protect 10 per cent of marine areas and 20 per cent of terrestrial areas by 2020.
-CJAD 800's Richard Deschamps and Matt Gilmour contributed to this report.