How is it that our government is capable of spontaneously and stubbornly promising billions for pharaonic road projects, without studies and without common sense, but is incapable of getting along so easily with our “guardian angels” of public health? That he knows how to dig into the pockets of taxpayers to extend billions when it comes to investing in the “vision of the future” of the battery sector, with environmental tricks along the way to facilitate its acceptance, but seems incapable of demonstrate the same creativity and vision when it comes to predicting the shortage of teachers? Or to pay them at their fair value?
And now another downpour of billions is coming for green hydrogen in Shawinigan, and we can suspect that the government will offer its usual helping hand in loans, subsidies or rebates. But finding a few million to ensure stable financing (and service) for our transport companies? Impossible and end of negotiation.
I have absolutely nothing against the development and investment in new technologies; the hydroelectricity bet was a turning point in Quebec. But it must not be to the detriment of another primordial wealth: human capital.
Indeed, this government clearly has the ear of the business class, and it is very concerned about the well-being of the political class, as evidenced by the generous increase that deputies voted for last June.
But when it comes to services that directly affect the middle class in their daily lives – education, health, public transport – suddenly we are told that we need to tighten our belts, that the next few months ” will be difficult. Curiously, these arguments are non-existent or absent from the government’s press lines when it completes its large and beautiful development projects.
The Legault government takes pleasure in being generous, competitive, even aggressive in its amazing projects, which undoubtedly delight the business world.
We would like him to demonstrate the same generosity and open-mindedness when it comes to investing in a place that is just as sensitive, but sadly neglected: the real world.