OTTAWA — Youri Chassin, an economist and member of the Quebec National Assembly, unleashed a scathing attack on his own party when he announced his resignation from the CAQ caucus last month.

“The party of equality between generations presented the largest budget deficit in the history of Quebec, at $11 billion!” he wrote, in Le Journal de Montréal.

The increased spending and increase in the number of civil servants has been too much for Chassin, who was first elected in 2018. “Rather than lightening structures and bureaucracy, we hired at full capacity and spent at unprecedented levels, creating several new public bodies in the process,” he wrote.