Budget 2022‑2023
The Act to reduce the debt and establish the Generations Fund was passed on June 15, 2006 with the goal of reducing Québec’s debt burden.
The Generations Fund is a fund dedicated exclusively to repaying Québec’s debt.
In order to finance the Generations Fund, we have turned to our most important renewable collective resource: water, Québec’s blue gold.
The Generations Fund is financed by revenue sources dedicated to debt repayment and consisting of, in particular, water-power royalties from Hydro-Québec and private producers of hydroelectricity.
The Generations Fund also receives sums relative to the indexation of the price of heritage electricity, an additional contribution from Hydro-Québec, mining revenues, the specific tax on alcoholic beverages and the liquidation of unclaimed property administered by Revenu Québec.
The sums dedicated to the Generations Fund are deposited with the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and managed in accordance with an investment policy determined by the Minister of Finance in collaboration with representatives of the Caisse.
Taking into account the deposits made since the creation of the Fund and those forecast, as well as the use of the Fund to repay borrowings on financial markets, the book value of the Generations Fund will stand at $19.1 billion as at March 31, 2023.
Deposits in the Generations Fund help to reduce the debt and thus to improve intergenerational fairness. Therefore, the government will maintain these deposits.
As part of Budget 2022‑2023, the government is projecting deposits of dedicated revenues in the Generations Fund totalling $3.4 billion in 2022-2023, $3.9 billion in 2023-2024, $4.4 billion in 2024-2025, $4.6 billion in 2025-2026 and $5.0 billion in 2026-2027.
These deposits will come from the following sources:
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