This is the most bogus scandal we’ve seen in a while.
It features François Legault, Pascal Bérubé and a bottle of wine. The story takes place during the pandemic and was told to us by the member for Matane during his recent appearance on a podcast.
During this crazy period, which was also driving people crazy, in fact, the two met one afternoon, a little by chance, to share a bottle of wine.
We understand, listening to Pascal Bérubé, that there were two of them in the room. We have no reason to believe that they did not respect the health rules of the time. They behaved like reasonable adults.
In other words, there is not the beginning of a scandal here.
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I would add, if we want to be absolutely honest, that we all, during the pandemic, needed some air at some point – and it was normal, too, that the Prime Minister, in the exercise of his duties, met people.
But some have decided to transform themselves into little vengeful spirits.
They want to revive the bad memories of the pandemic to make political capital at little cost to excite a militant base which has still not moved on and which has lost itself in a somewhat sad form of political alienation. .
This is the case of Éric Duhaime, who is clearly seeking to rekindle the pandemic fury to restore some oxygen to his party. He is currently trying to create a media scandal. As if his party was incapable of getting out of this crisis.
This is the case of certain radio presenters who know that they can thus easily arouse the anger of their base, and playing on the bad side of populism, that of a population which always feels exploited by the powerful.
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A strange paradox, moreover: these people who, in real time, denounced the very real abuses of the government’s confinement policy subsequently transformed into confinement absolutists. Will they demand to consult everyone’s agenda, beyond total transparency?
There are still lessons to be learned from the pandemic. On the controlling company. On the surveillance company too. On the docility of the population less concerned than one might think about their freedoms. We, collectively, erred in that moment. And it is not forbidden to believe that our societies could tomorrow fall into another liberticidal neurosis, perhaps by submitting to the whims of radical environmentalism.
But coming back to all this, with police behavior, is something embarrassing. We can only be sad when the smallest politics tries to hide behind the quest for justice.