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Elections in the fall? Ha well!

Many Quebecers will be surprised when they are reminded of the next election in Quebec, so much time has been suspended with the pandemic. They don’t have that in mind, but not at all.

Quebecers have chosen amnesia, forget, and think only of accumulating good times this summer and stretching the season as far as possible. Our politicians will have to trickle hard to capture their attention, likely in deficit until October 3. Big seed of abstention.

Give them the choice at the start of the school year between an electoral campaign and a few goals from Cole Caufield; They’ll fix it for you pretty quickly!

Especially since partisan politics is so deconstructed in our country that we risk experiencing the most useless campaign since Maurice Duplessis, says the boss, at the time. Google, the youngest.

There is almost a consensus, the electoral arithmetic has probably already frozen the final result in favor of the CAQ, with a few figures, especially thanks to its monstrous advance among Francophones. It’s hard to believe that despite advances in science, an existing algorithm could change the outcome.

I know I know ! Anything can happen in a campaign.

You’re right, we could learn that the Prime Minister had a shed built in Outremont with the petty cash from the office, or that his main adviser is a founding member of QAnon, and even there…

I also know that Winston Churchill, though a hero at the end of the Second World War, was beaten soundly in the British elections in 1945, only a few months after the Armistice.

Moreover, our government also draws its strength from the weakness of the opposition, we have grasped it for a while, that one. In this regard, no change is seen on the horizon. A query made to the Hubble Space Telescope comes to the same conclusions.

Quebecers appreciate François Legault, and are indebted to him for having managed this health crisis. He became for them a good man who did what he could, despite the mistakes, which is not wrong. There is a real sense of empathy. However, empathy is a very poor criterion for electing a political leader. But the impression remains that he will be entitled to a free pass.

Of course, we are collectively feeling the aftermath of the pandemic. Some, having more droppings on the heart, are organizing conferences of pickup in the capitals. But all the same, since the existence of Law 21 on secularism, I feel we are politically satisfied. We look like pandas on our backs, blissful, whose belly we flatter. We keep floating on the buzz of this identity dope and to suck the political candy. More a political party of tactical tact than a visionary government, the CAQ.

Does this government have a brilliant record in the non-COVID-19 part of its work, and outside of Law 21? Sorry, we didn’t have time to think about it between two doses of the vaccine. But we still feel it a bit faraud, to say the least…

Eyes fixed on the polls, and the nose in the wind to feel coming, we can be certain however that by October, the strategists of the CAQ will not want to muddy the waters. “Go with the flow. By putting money back in our pockets…

Unless part of the population takes Mr. Legault at his word. In fact, in the special Infoman of December 31, he said he hoped that Quebecers would like him a little less, so that he would not have to manage a brood of a hundred elected officials from the CAQ. He’s right, it’s exhausting, and there’s no added value.

We could indeed like it a little less and ensure that the other political parties survive. Wouldn’t it be stupid to keep this good old British principle of check and balance.

On that same show, Mr. Legault seemed to revere the boss – jokingly understood – which represents a historic model of provincial autonomism and petty authoritarianism. We laughed out loud… but “he’s not dead”?

A victory for the CAQ without getting wet could give birth to a kind of avatar, a kind of new bosscertainly more modern, but do we really have the taste for that?

If we are aiming for a useful election, we will have to provoke debates and tirelessly demand answers. And there is no shortage of themes.

For example, the health network, which, like golf, has become an expertise impossible for me to master. I resigned.

Or THE economic problem of the coming decades, the workforce, and its corollary, immigration. Especially before I was forced to spend time at a hardware store. Which is absolutely undesirable, knowing that I can’t tell the difference between nails with or without a head. Although I’m not doing too badly in the same exercise concerning humans…

Do we hope for the unexpected, the unexpected, to spice up the next political months. Because the yeast to raise the electoral dough does not seem to be part of the recipe. The menu will be thin, apart from the pittance that the Conservative Party of Quebec will perhaps serve us.