One would have thought that it was the Union Nationale that was administering the “province of Quebec” this week.
A week that began with the announcement of a check for $500 dedicated to almost all Quebecers.
A check that will help equally the single mother and the taxpayer earning double the average wage.
There is no doubt that in normal times, this check would have been more targeted for some Quebecers, who are really struggling because of inflation.
However, an election is waiting around the corner.
We therefore preferred a populist measure worthy of the Duplessis doctrine.
tram
The week continued with counterproductive attacks by CAQ ministers against the tramway and the mayor of Quebec, Bruno Marchand.
Éric Caire even goes so far as to assert that the mayor was polluting the lives of motorists.
All this because the CAQ wants to impose new conditions: it no longer wants a street shared between the tram and the car lanes.
Even if it comes under the autonomy of the city.
Sweet irony, all the same: while the Legault government denounces Ottawa’s rightly detestable interference in our jurisdictions, it reproduces the same condescending attitude towards the city.
Duhaime
You don’t have to look far to understand.
If the elected Caquistes went there successively to defend the “motorists”, it is for fear that their constituencies are themselves polluted by Éric Duhaime.
Even if it means forgetting the public interest, the interest of Quebec and its autonomy, the ecological interest in making cities denser and allowing low-carbon transport.
Even if it means repeating the completely demagogue rhetoric of the war on the automobile that Éric Duhaime has always, what a coincidence, used.
Mayor Marchand clashes in this useless bickering. It clashes above all with the image that elected CAQ members have of their city.
A sincere politician reveals himself.
And we have the impression that it is Mayor Marchand who embodies the future and common sense, while the government plays in a bad summer theater, worthy of the 1950s.