Quebec election: CAQ pledges 'beautiful schools' but cuts renovation budget

COTEAU-DU-LAC – Promising to build “the most beautiful schools in the world,” Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault pledged to inject $1.2-billion a year into upgrading the province’s dilapidated schools and creating new ones.
Sunday’s announcement was overshadowed, however, by the fact the Liberal government had already set aside $1.56 billion a year for school construction and renovation in its capital works budget released last spring, whi