The slouches, the timid and the amnesiacs were shaken by the speech given in Drummondville by the leader of the PQ.
Hell and damnation! He called a spade a spade!
For French-speaking Quebecers, he said in substance, it is sovereignty or this inexorable simmering that is assimilation.
When media historically opposed to sovereignty get angry, it is because the sovereignists have found the right path.
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Truth
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is absolutely right, and everything else is just red herrings, hypocrisy and denial of reality.
Depoliticization and submission, disguised as modernism and a refusal of supposed exaggeration, have reached such levels among us that the recall of indisputable facts gives hives to many.
Evoking the old imperial desire to erase our difference, taken up in modern Canada under refreshed tinsel, the PQ leader notably mentioned the executions and deportations that occurred after the rebellions of 1837-1838.
Oh horror, he recalled the truth! How does he dare?
I even saw a headline in which these two words – executions and deportations – were in quotation marks.
What, we doubt that this actually happened?
The leader of the PQ has several excellent reasons for wanting to take responsibility frankly and without complexes.
Few things have hurt the PQ more than ambiguity. We can vary on temporary issues, which change according to circumstances, but not on your fundamental goal.
If the PQ, by chance, took power with a vague mandate, all its subsequent action would be tinged with illegitimacy and suspected of duplicity.
He is also right to shine the spotlight on what is essential: the real possibility that French Quebec will become a folkloric residue. Was it not the Prime Minister of Quebec himself who spoke, a short time ago, of our possible “Louisianization”?
Have we ever seen a people become sovereign to eliminate administrative overlaps or implement a set of social measures?
He is also right to portray the Canadian regime for what it fundamentally is: not a simple provider of services of which it would suffice to compare what it costs us and what it brings us in, but a subtle system of domination and dilution of our identity.
Fundamentally, a people subject to an ultimate authority external to them and which they do not control is a people under guardianship. Quite simply.
The virtuous and pseudo-progressive discourse of Canadian elites does not change this implacable reality.
Photo QMI Agency, Thierry Laforce
Future
He is also right not to be discouraged by the current state of public opinion.
Support for sovereignty is not much lower than when Jacques Parizeau took up the pilgrim’s staff again in the late 1980s.
Young people never participated in this discussion and it is now established that the CAQ third way was only a dead end wrapped in an illusion.
The future is never written in advance.