Canadian insignificance and Quebec ti-couism

We cannot say that Canada and Quebec are finishing 2023 strong.

Justin Trudeau’s only objective success in 2023, if we can call it a success, was to have avoided an open revolt by his troops.

Embarrassing moments

Everything else was a long string of embarrassing moments.

When we publicly accuse the government of India (1.4 billion inhabitants, or 35 Indians for every Canadian) of having orchestrated the assassination of a Sikh leader on Canadian territory, it is in our interest to have solid evidence and make them public.

Then, as soon as the conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out, Trudeau plunged into confusing and shifting moral condemnations.

This man has only one inflexible conviction: more immigration, more, more, always more, despite all objective opinions to the contrary.

The latest, the chief economist of Scotiabank, not quite a “separatist”: “Immigration is excessive. Period,” Derek Holt said last week.

Last year, when Pierre Poilievre supported the crazy truckers’ convoy, I said to myself that he was unworthy of being prime minister.

Maybe, but the facts are there: a 15-point lead in the polls. You may not like it (that’s my case), but it works.

The block ? Undeniably, the responsible adult in this daycare that is often parliament. Controlled files, clear positions, collective discipline. More relevant than ever.

Equal to itself, the NDP continued to lick the boots of the PLC.

Most embarrassing moment of the year?

Having invited to the federal parliament, then having given a standing ovation to a former Nazi [Yaroslav Hunka].

The craziest statement of the year?

We ask the federal Minister of Immigration, Marc Miller, where we are going to house half a million more immigrants per year while a housing crisis is already hitting hard.

It’s simple, he answers in substance. These new arrivals will help build housing.

I didn’t know they brought their homes with them.

At our place

Note that, as I said above, the year hardly ends more gloriously in Quebec.

Gérard Depardieu is certainly a sexual predator, all the more vile as he seemed to target not the big stars who were opposite him, but the hairdressers, make-up artists, etc.

But is it too much to ask, if Quebec wants to take away the honors it has awarded him, that it do so while respecting the law?

It is now certain that the law was flouted by the haste of a government too eager to join the howling pack.

The National Order of Quebec can only be withdrawn from someone who has been found guilty following a due process.

As for the decision of our public television networks to remove its films, don’t tell me that you are surprised to see that we are treated by them like children incapable of deciding for ourselves what we should watch or not.