Is it the fault of the pandemic? Or is democracy undergoing a destructive assault from marginal groups who want to use it for their own ends?
Paradoxically, the government of François Legault prances in the polls, still receiving non-existent popular support in both Canada and the United States.
Majority rule, however, is hated and challenged by many opponents. François Legault is accused by some of being an authoritarian leader simply because he has the support of the French-speaking majority in Quebec. Others label him racist as well as the French-speaking majority who support him because of his policy on language and secularism. Which, let’s say it, is rather shy.
Because this majority, real in terms of numbers, is politically denied by almost all anglophone and allophone Quebecers. As for the opposition parties in Quebec, they do not cease not to criticize, which is their role, but to try to delegitimize the Caquist power.
Refusal of vaccination
Obviously, the unions which bring together workers in the public and parapublic sectors are defending without qualms their members who defy the directives of the authorities on the subject of vaccination.
Opponents of all categories reject what they call the tyranny of the majority. Chance is that this majority in Quebec is a minority fighting for its survival, demography having already condemned it to disappear.
Nowadays, one might think that it is rather marginal minorities who are tyrannical. They hardly respect the popular will expressed through the electoral process. Recognition under charters or human rights laws sometimes becomes the denial of collective rights. But it is these rights which, let us not forget, allowed the emancipation of peoples, the right to self-determination and the emergence of new nations, some sixty years ago.