The revelations concerning the use of a private American firm to manage the pandemic in the greatest secrecy are a scandalous aberration. When I learned this morning that Hydro-Québec is also relying on the very expensive expertise of McKinsey to manage its activities, I fell out of my chair. I had already been told about the presence of private consulting firms in the provision of social services as well as the disastrous effects on the staff and the means at their disposal to intervene with families and individuals in crisis situations. This whole circus of cutbacks and precariousness of resources had been launched in the name of optimizing processes and, the height of cynicism, stakeholders.
The big government that makes François Legault smile thanks to its many star candidates guarantees us, in principle, responsible and competent governance. The composition of its Council of Ministers, however, shows us very different objectives and motivations. Apart from the return of the big guns, we cannot ignore the positions offered to some of these candidates who arouse covetousness from a strictly electoral and partisan perspective. We can very well guess the unmentionable guarantees offered to these candidates in complete confidentiality to convince them to go into politics in the context of a return or in that of a new career which is attracting more and more journalists.
Media personalities are not the only ones concerned: there is also the presence of certain candidates within the lobbyist nebula and their allegiance to think tanks that defend the private interests of the neoliberal ideological movement. Youri Chassin (dissatisfied?) and Pascale Déry (new Minister of Higher Education!) collaborated with the Montreal Economic Institute. How to explain the presence of these promoters of private interests within democratic institutions, which should be the guardians of the maintenance of quality public services and the guarantee of their accessibility? Finally, the political arena now seems subject to the prerogatives of individualism and opportunism. The vocation to serve the common good with dignity and the ethics it requires are clearly no longer present values within the Quebec state. As a citizen, I am ashamed this morning and I have new reasons to worry about the consequences of the dismantling of the common good.
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