A new version of the program was introduced in May, following an ill-fated attempt to reform it last November that forced the provincial government to backtrack and apologize.

Hospital parking fees have been reduced to $10 a day in Quebec as the Legault government keeps its election promise.

Christian Dubé, who has served as Treasury Board president, will be the province's new health minister.

The fear is that safeguards put in place following Quebec's four-year anti-corruption inquiry, led by Justice France Charbonneau, will be left by the wayside.

The provincial government announced on Wednesday that non-contact physical activity and individual sports will be permitted.

Quebec's Bill 21 bars some public-sector employees from wearing religious symbols in the workplace.

Gregory Kelley, the Liberal MNA representing Jacques-Cartier, said he was glad to see partisanship take a back seat in Quebec's fight against the novel coronavirus.

There are now 226 professions on the new list, including preschool and grade school teachers, university-level lecturers, social workers, cinema support staff and bricklayers, to name a few.

Bill 40 is the Quebec government's education reform legislation, which abolishes school boards.

"This has to be lifted," Legault told reporters at the provincial legislature. "It's worse every day."