Posted at 6:00 a.m.
I was not scandalized to see Dominique Anglade and his friends side with the opponents of Law 96. Obviously, some delusions of the robbers are inevitable, but hey, we’re used to it, and they don’t have the exclusivity of derailments.
I was even relieved to see that the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) had accepted its current level of incompetence based on the upcoming elections. That he had looked in the mirror and had finally admitted having to concentrate on his business to survive, Anglos and allophones, without extras, and that he was causing frigidity among French people.
Because the PLQ is Montreal to the core. And that, it feels in Normandin…
Nothing to extract from the Franco and regional electorate in the coming weeks. Outside the metropolis, rather to the west of course, no salvation.
Unless the two new Anglophone political shoots, two new parties that ooze opportunism, have unexpected success, the PLQ should keep more or less 15 to 20 ridings, according to experts, and remain the official opposition in Quebec. .
And it’s not three small French courses in English-speaking CEGEPs that should make the difference, otherwise we have a damn bigger problem than we thought!
Just saving their skins would relieve elected Liberals. Humble destinies…
And this is good news for Quebec. Any survivor of the opposition on October 4 in the morning will be welcome. Otherwise, we will almost live in a one-party universe, so predictable is that the CAQ will vacuum the election and clean up the political process.
Good news also because with such a base of elected officials, budgets that come with official opposition status and a François Legault who should live quietly wear and tear, especially because of this irrepressible vice that is arrogance , this time there will be people interested in leading the liberal tribe.
In this regard, the next QLP leadership campaign should be a real campaign.
We could see interesting candidates such as Pierre Moreau, for example, or Marwah Rizqy, certainly more mature now.
A Franco like Mr. Moreau, experienced and hard-hitting, to break through the linguistic and regional wall and make himself understood in Saint-Louis du Ha! Ha!.
Or a candidate wedge, atypical and whimsical, like Mme Rizqy, who could become an unprecedented political phenomenon in Quebec.
You will have noticed that I took it for granted that Mr.me Anglade will no longer be the leader of this party eventually. In that, I am not a diviner.
Dominique Anglade, an intelligent woman who had to swim in the unreal universe of the pandemic, had difficulty building an adequate mental posture under these conditions as leader of the opposition. Like all the elected oppositions of democratic governments, by the way. Not easy to play the wrong role during this period.
Moreover, with behind her several colleagues, soft cheese category, especially fatalistic and not believing in her success. We felt that the transplant of his leadership may not have taken hold in this group, and that it served as cannon fodder while waiting for the political sky to clear up. A situation that had less to do with his personal abilities than with the situation.
Recall that almost no one had stretched their necks to lead the battalion. And whatever we think, we always miss Jean Charest at the PLQ.
Mme Anglade made the bet, daring, that his chance existed if this new government got stuck on its feet. But no ! Wagered, lost and non-refundable.
The draft Charter of the regions of Mme England is interesting. But these ideas, and even a tax cut, cannot compete with a check sent by the Prime Minister before the election, and another promised next December. Hard cash money. We come out of the clouds here.
But the real problem with the Liberal Party is that it is totally misguided ideologically. Sometimes chicken no head. Despite the efforts of M.me Anglade, his players obviously did not adhere to his game plan.
The schizophrenic positioning of elected officials with predominantly Anglo and Allo ridings who must properly represent their constituents without alienating the Francos of Quebec is a catch-22.
A stretching that is difficult to pull off, but that is taught at the École de cirque de Québec.
Of course, it is desirable and necessary that minority groups in our society be politically represented as the PLQ does. But this party will have to look wider, ask itself the necessary philosophical questions about the reasons for its existence. In the meantime, he will not hesitate to once again stir up the fear of separatism, now simmering at the CAQ.
The result of the next elections will be a spectacular demonstration of the fragmentation more than apprehended, although notorious, and unnecessarily amplified by this provocative law, the 96, between Anglos and Allos on one side, and Francos on the other.
The PLQ and the CAQ count their votes on the back of social cohesion.
It really stinks!
Potential to chirp…
Between us
Summer reading, deck chair, pre-aperitif.
The last opus of Franz-Olivier Giesbert, on General de Gaulle.
Like someone who kills the father.
Intimate history of the Ve Republic: The Surge
Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Gallimard
384 pages