The contempt that Trudeau Jr. has openly displayed in recent times towards provincial jurisdictions shows not only that Quebec is still not recognized as a nation by the Canadian federal government, but that it is no longer even respected as a simple province. . When unwavering federalists like André Pratte and the late Benoît Pelletier become virulent critics of Canadian federalism, it is a sign that Quebec no longer weighs very heavily in the Canadian balance.
The PLQ, for its part, no longer has any real autonomist demands, it has become an essentially English-speaking and multiculturalist party whose motto could be “everything, except the separatists”, or even “everything, except the Quebec nationalists”. He says he wants to get closer to French-speaking Quebecers, but he accepts that they remain a powerless linguistic minority subject to federal decisions and destined for decline.
The CAQ, for its part, through resignation and opportunism, caused great harm to Quebec by causing it to degrade into a defensive, hermetic and stunted struggle for the protection of the French-Canadian ethnic group within Canada, this which, before it, was an inclusive political project for the independence and entry into the scene of the Quebec people.
Caught between the cul-de-sac of Legault’s resigned provincialism and the cul-de-sac of Trudeau’s dominating federalism, shouldn’t Quebec rebuild the demanding but promising path to national emancipation?
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