Earlier this month Premier Jean Charest announced he would prorogue the current session in order to give MNAs a new direction.

Tuesday morning he used a cabinet decree to do just that, and announced the new session would begin Wednesday with an inaugural speech.

Charest says his government needs a fresh direction, and that an inaugural speech is the best way to do that.

He also points out it's been done before by former premiers Bernard Landry and Lucien Bouchard

Proroguing the session of parliament means all bills that have not finished final reading are suspended, although the government promised early on that everything that stands a reasonable chance of passing will be "saved" via an agreement with the opposition.

Opposition leader Pauline Marois says the problems the Charest government will not magically disappear just because the government is trying to reset the agenda.

"He puts the problems away and he thinks the population will forget the problems. and I think this government has a major responsibility in the bad situation in which we are in now," said the leader of the Parti Quebecois.

The House Leader of the ADQ, Sylvie Roy, says she thinks the Liberal government is suffering from an "enormous credibility deficit."


Politicians will drum up support for changes

The recent changes that Charest has made following the Bastararache report -- a small cabinet shuffle, appointing former Parti Quebecois Labour Minister Diane Lemieux as the head of the Construction Commission of Quebec, naming former PQ premier Lucien Bouchard to the Oil and Gas Association -- has not significantly changed the support for the Liberal party in the polls.

However after the inaugural speech, the National Assembly takes a previously scheduled two-week break, so MNAs will have that time to gladhand in their ridings to spread the message of the revised focus on the economy and other goals.