Curious to listen to the first question period in the National Assembly after the CAQ’s victory in Marie-Victorin, I can still hear the opposition repeat ad nauseam the same accusations against the government on the management of the pandemic and of the CHSLD Herron: “A factory of lies”, according to the leader of the Liberal Party, Dominique Anglade. But, good God, the oppositions have understood nothing!
Posted at 12:00 p.m.
On April 11, the CAQ won a resounding victory, a feat in a by-election where, usually, voters mostly express their dissatisfaction with elected officials. However, the opposite has happened. This is the third partial won by the government.
That the by-elections are an opportunity to send messages to elected officials (a snub or anger without risk on the general election), Thomas Mulcair can testify, he who, with Jack Layton, had “achieved the impossible” by snatching a victory in the Liberal bastion of Outremont. Do we seriously think that the citizen will find his way through the repetitive recitation of emails of March 26 or April 30 at 2:50 p.m. or 7:00 p.m., sent from the CIUSSS or the deputy minister, or to the police or the floor neighbor…
That opposition MPs stop playing prosecutors or coroners, and that they find a hobby horse other than the trial of the management of the pandemic. Citizens have confidence in their government, and they expressed it clearly in Marie-Victorin. They have not forgotten the tragedy in the CHSLDs.
We can try to minimize the difference in majority (797 votes) of the new MP Shirley Dorismond, but if we take into account the participation rate of 36.4% and we report this difference by applying it to a specific participation rate in a general election, the member would have had a majority of 1,400 votes, a clear majority. On the management of the pandemic which they want to transform into a partisan weapon, the oppositions are swimming in full contradiction. We are now urgently calling for government intervention in the pandemic and, yesterday, we wanted to end the state of health emergency. Devil ! We no longer wanted to see politics and public health on the same platform, and we now demand that the Prime Minister take up the torch alongside public health. Poor Descartes, rationality takes a serious hit here! If the oppositions continue in this way, their way of the cross risks being long before the resurrection.