A Champagne-Rayes combo at the PLQ?

No, I haven’t seen my fortune-teller lately.

But since idleness is the mother of all vices, and since I am the antichrist of tinkering, I occupy my mind. I could hunt pheasant, like Fitz, but no islands available.

So I’m scaffolding, and I’m sharing an imagining with you.

Appetizer.

Frankly, between us, we can go crazy for fun, but I don’t see any potential alternative government in Quebec other than the Liberal Party, in my lifetime anyway.

And as I have about fifteen years left statistically, I can easily predict that Quebecers will not turn to the left and will not kill each other for sovereignty by then. So make up your mind.

Let’s talk to talk.

It will take a leader in the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) one of these four. Even if it’s not in a hurry, but not at all.

In the meantime, I thought to myself: why not put some coconut in the fan? A specialty that I am trying to develop, I am looking for a niche.

So, citizens of Quebec, would you like an idea like this: a François-Philippe Champagne and Alain Rayes combo at the PLQ?

The Coalition avenir Québec will not be eternal, the god Legault will have an end, politics of course. And the goddess GG (Geneviève Guilbault) will not have a free pass to replace him, faith of Bernard Drainville and other Goldorak caquists.

The first quality of Messrs. Champagne and Rayes is that no one will explain to them what deep Quebec thinks.

They are respectively elected in federal ridings whose chief towns are Shawinigan and Victoriaville.

More regions and French than that, you die. We are there directly in the tillers of Mr. Legault. His business.

Mr. Champagne, originally from Mauricie, has had an international career in large companies.

Current Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, he has also held important portfolios in recent years.

A very big name in economic development.

Mr. Rayes has another style, but no less effective. A natural leader for those who know him.

Former mayor of Victo, he is a federal deputy, but left the Conservatives after the leadership campaign, where he led that of Jean Charest.

We will remember the odious treatment that Pierre Poilievre and his troops reserved for him, as soon as the results of this campaign became known. Alain Rayes remained dignified under the circumstances, and left without vomiting on anyone. He now sits as an independent.

Born in the hometown he led, we will not remonstrate with this son of Egyptian immigrants on cultural communities, and their integration in Quebec, and in the region. Know-how, and know-how.

Two bad political minds, qualities you don’t buy at K-Mart, to paraphrase Kevin Parent.

Both are clearly federalists, that has the advantage of being clear.

But they know Quebec perfectly, and the French-speaking vibrations.

But Mr. Champagne is a man who, in my opinion, sees himself essentially at the federal level. In the best of hypotheses, he would like to lead the country one day. But Justin Trudeau seems to want to stay for the next campaign, unless the chinoiseries come to an end. In the Liberal Party of Canada, the rule of alternation at the head of the party is strong between Francos and Anglos.

As for Mr. Rayes, this man of principle who sticks to his values ​​is currently in a political vacuum. His next choices will be mostly life choices.

One thing is certain, the two are deeply involved in their home, and loved by their world.

Compare these two to current political leaders, two orders of government, or what they looked like a few years ago. Not bothersome.

Of course, and that goes without saying, they will deny that they are interested in the liberal leadership, it is too early. But keep the idea in mind.

In the meantime, they depress me, the liberals. Cinematographic bide actors lost in space.

Unable to deal with identity issues, such as the notwithstanding clause. It was predictable, they defend their Montreal constituents. Either, it is their first task.

But during this time, they have no idea what is being talked about in Dolbeau, where all that is English is the name of a boulevard: Wallberg.

And Mr. Legault has the good game. Without nuances, he holds us hostage, tight in his patriotic net. How to be against?

We feel among the elected Liberals a dramatic absence of political GPS, apart from one notable exception: Marwah Rizqy.

Aside from defending the individual rights of part of the population, and we completely agree, a social or government project is much more than that.

The essential remains: this party absolutely needs a leader of caliber, from and elected from a Francophone background. Sine qua non.

If these leaders are not Champagne and Rayes, they must imperatively unearth one, to land elsewhere, outside the metropolis.

That’s why it’s worth guessing, shaking things up, and putting a little shit in front of the propeller.

Between us

We sometimes believe that everything exists, like the French version of the shocking book by Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract, published 25 years ago. That was not the case, as Aly Ndiaye, aka Webster, from Quebec discovered. He has just published the translation, and it is frankly not too early: The racial contractat Mémoire d’encrier.