The rise in support for Quebec sovereignty, at nearly 40% of those questioned during a recent survey, surprises and delights me. All is not lost, contrary to what the Cassandras say about the forever burial of the project of national sovereignty.
This strong expression of Quebecers proves, in a period of low referendum, a powerful indicator of the disgust of a denied people, condemned to dilution in the English maelstrom, treated in Lower Canada, destined to oblivion. I would even say that many timid nationalists and soft federalists think the same.
The year 1 budget of a Quebec country, tabled in the House by the PQ leader PSPP and described as very credible by all the parliamentary groups of the National Assembly, the lamentable failure of the more cutesy Duplessis-style nationalism of the government CAQ, faced with the increasingly long and sharp teeth of Ottawa in its desire to maintain symmetrical federalism (telecommunications, immigration, negation of areas of jurisdiction falling under Quebec, decline from one coast to the other of one of the two official languages) are all proof of a Quebec which is irremediably diluted in Canada.
I suspect that there is now a momentum, if we include major climatic upheavals and other crises which, in my opinion, would be better managed if Quebec had all the powers. The change of era is conducive to repositioning, to the covering of a new skin, and why not to the big leap, at controlled risk, into interstellar space.
After so much amateurism in the management of state affairs by a cabinet full of business people, who are making us, with their new reforms, more and more dependent on the private sector, what do we really have to lose, Quebecers (if not illusions inspired by siren songs) to resume the exhilarating path of our independence project to make it flourish and accumulate towards the holding of a third referendum? This one, winner.
The Quebec federalists and the “Rest of Canada” emerging from its torpor for the occasion will recite to us until we drop in unison, for a third time, their litany consisting of the benefits of federalism and the dramatic consequences of our separation, as scarecrows who will be no match for our ideal of a free people that has been nipped in the bud for too long.