François Legault, within the framework of his congress, designated his new main adversary: the Parti Québécois.
It is understandable: the PQ is rising in the polls and attracts first and foremost the nationalist electorate, on which the CAQ has had its hands since 2018, and which represents the base of its majority.
But how to attack the PQ on the ground of nationalism, in a context marked by the decline of French?
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François Legault thinks he knows.
He explains that the PQ, to reverse the decline of French, are waiting for the great evening of independence, when it would be necessary to act urgently. And only the CAQ would be in a position to do so, because it is in power.
Certainly. Let us add that the Prime Minister’s “measures” are ineffective measuring spoons which are more a matter of communication than of politics.
But can we act urgently, as he proposes, while recognizing that Quebec could act much more resolutely and effectively if it had all the powers?
But François Legault does not want to talk about independence. Like a Liberal of the Charest years, he repeats, jumping like a goat: referendum, referendum, referendum! As if it were a magic word to scare child voters.
Above all, beyond the argument that action must be taken immediately, it does not answer the other fundamental question: in the long term, is it to the advantage of Quebecers to remain in a Canada where they are condemned to to be ever more of a minority, and who will ultimately condemn francophones to becoming a minority in Quebec itself?
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François Legault is an effective nationalist when it comes to verbally opposing radical federalists and the multiculturalist left.
But when it comes time to walk the talk, it shrinks to a political raisin.