I am inherently optimistic, believe it or not. It is probably because I am bathed in the illusion that things will improve that I am so hard on those who, in my opinion, are delaying the group.
I therefore offer you the opportunity to grumble with me against decisions or trends that have tested our optimism for the past 12 months.
The price Woke 2021 : For everything we have seen and heard, I give the palm to CBC Ottawa, and the entire network, for having posted a list of words not to be used, because they are likely to offend certain listeners and viewers. The palm goes to ” brainstorm », So brainstorm or storm of ideas. People with reduced cognitive ability could, according to the CBC, take offense.
Promise breakers: Tied, François Legault who renounces his signature and his bill on electoral reform (like Justin Trudeau before him), Jagmeet Singh who breaks his promise to Quebecers about the non-contesting of Bill 21. Mention to Valérie Plante and his renunciation of his promise to hire 250 new police officers.
The disinformer: Justin Trudeau who has said dozens of times in recent days that a veiled teacher had been transferred “because of her religion” rather than because of her religious display. Mention to the interviewers, including French speakers, who did not correct him on this point.
The coward of the year: Montreal MP-Minister Marc Miller, a great friend of Justin Trudeau, said this month that Bill 21 was “loose”. Oddly, he did not have the courage to say such a shocking thing during the election campaign of August and September last. An obvious lack of courage.
The embarrassing of the year: Jean Charest has doubled, to two million dollars, the sum he asks the Quebec government which “embarrassed him” because of leaks on the investigation into the hypothesis wanting that he chaired to the biggest political corruption operation in modern Quebec.
Cow farm of the year: Maurice Duplessis had offered the new Liberal leader, Paul-Émile Lapalme, to run in an unopposed partial of the governing party. François Legault did not have this elegance towards Paul St-Pierre Plamondon in Marie-Victorin.
Elsewhere, it’s worse!
Violent neighbors: A majority of Republican voters believe that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election. It wouldn’t matter if that conviction were equal to the 15% who still believe Elvis is alive. But the pollsters went further and asked them if “the use of force is justified to put Donald Trump back in power”. In June, 8% said yes to this question from a University of Chicago Security and Threat Project (CPOST) survey. This corresponds to 21 million adults. In November, 12% told the Public Religion Research Institute that “true American patriots may have to use violence to save the country,” which equates to 32 million adults.
Aggravating detail: a third of these respondents own weapons and 15% of them served in the armed forces. According to researcher Robert Pape, from CPOST, cited in The Atlantic, these numbers are similar to those recorded among Catholics in Northern Ireland, favorable to violence, just before the creation of the IRA and decades of armed clashes.
The list of dictators: Tyrants Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping zoomed in in December and they were amazed at everything that unites them. “I consider these relations as the true model of inter-state cooperation in the XXIe century, ”Putin whispered in a portion of the interview broadcast on TV. They will see each other, of course, at the Beijing Olympics in February with their other friends who are reluctant to rights and freedoms. Putin and Xi will compare their notes and plans. Xi wants to invade Taiwan. Putin, Ukraine. The year 2022 is auspicious for them. Why not launch the attacks on the same day? My prediction: that of Taiwan will be made after November 8, when the American Joe Biden will lose control of Congress, weakening his position.
It’s all creepy, yes. But at least that changes us from the pandemic.
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