We learned this week, following the release of a Mainstreet poll, that the Conservative Party of Quebec would come in second place in terms of voting intentions, ahead of the Liberal Party of Quebec, Quebec solidaire and the Parti Quebecois. In light of these results, the hypothesis that the PCQ forms the official opposition, although improbable, turns out to be possible. In the advent of this scenario, what would it tell us about the political evolution of contemporary Quebec?
First of all, for the first time in its history, the National Assembly would be dominated by a party in power and an opposition party, both anchored resolutely to the center right and to the right of the political spectrum: the CAQ of François Legault, with his Duplessis-style autonomist and nationalist program tinged with a profession of faith in economic liberalism, against a Conservative Party of Éric Duhaime which bathes in the waters of libertarianism, anti-unionism and privatization anything goes.
Then, some could say, in this eventuality, that it would be a break with the period of the Quiet Revolution, which allowed the emergence of a class of businessmen and women who have now grasped the reins of power on the Quebec political scene while questioning the achievements of the Quiet Revolution from which they and they paradoxically benefited.
I wonder what the worthy representatives of the generations of great union struggles and sovereigntist aspirations would think, such as Michel Chartrand and Pierre Falardeau, who are now unfortunately deceased, when they see that all the ideals for which they fought risk falling to the oblivion among a Quebec population that seems to have lost its bearings. But this is still pure speculation here…until the elections.
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