With less than a year before the next general election, the leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec, Dominique Anglade, is sounding the charge against the single thought.
Many do not recognize themselves in the Quebec of the “self-proclaimed father of the Quebec nation” François Legault, she argued in the National Assembly on Wednesday. There is no harm in that, she added, preparing to oppose the general policy statement of the government.
“The CAQ wants to impose a way of thinking on us; we want to listen to Quebeckers, ”said Dominique Anglade.
In his eyes, François Legault seeks to impose “his personal values” on the Quebec nation, even if it means qualifying as outcasts those in his path. “When you don’t think like the prime minister, you can’t [apparemment] not represent the values of Quebec ”, regretted Dominique Anglade, the day after the opening speech of the parliamentary session delivered by the Prime Minister.
The leader of the official opposition in the National Assembly said that she defended in all forums, whatever François Legault might say, the values of Quebec such as “equality between men and women”, “the distinction that ‘is our Quebec nation in terms of the French language ”and“ the need for solidarity ”. ” [Le premier ministre] is not the owner of the values of all Quebecers, ”she insisted.
“Maintain” fear
Dominique Anglade on Wednesday accused the head of government of stirring up the fear paralyzing the Quebec population, rather than fighting it as he claims since taking charge of the Quebec state three years ago. “It is the Prime Minister himself who maintains this fear. The fear of the other, the fear of those who do not think like him or who do not vote like him, ”she said during her reply in the House on Wednesday. “The imminent danger is when you don’t think like the Prime Minister,” she continued.
The elected Liberal still could not believe Wednesday that the Prime Minister rejected out of hand the idea of decreeing a holiday to mark the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation “for a question of productivity” . “For compassion, for solidarity, it’s zero. “
François Legault demonstrated on Tuesday that he is “disconnected from the realities of the field”, including those of young people suffering from ecoanxiety. “Are they going to reach the ripe old age of their parents or their grandparents?” This is what young people are asking themselves today. However, the Prime Minister took almost an hour of his speech before speaking about this issue, ”noted Dominique Anglade less than a year before the next election.
The head of the PLQ accuses Mr. Legault of having “stuffed himself with this tremendous media exposure that he had” during the COVID-19 pandemic. “He has withdrawn into himself. He has become an authoritarian prime minister who does not listen, ”she said on Wednesday. “Power has gone to his head. “
A show “
The “great demonstration of self-promotion” operated Tuesday in the hall of the National Assembly highlighted, according to Dominique Anglade, the fear of François Legault of being reduced to the role of “prime minister of a single crisis” in the eye of the people of Quebec. Who knows, the chef caquiste could suffer the same fate as the actor Jean-Pierre Masson, who “had difficulty finding other major roles” after having donned the clothes of Séraphin Poudrier in The beautiful stories from the countries above, she mentioned, promising to propose throughout the year “a policy that unites all Quebecers instead of dividing them”.
The parliamentary leader of Quebec solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, for his part deplored the “manager’s speech” delivered by Mr. Legault on Tuesday. The Prime Minister still did not take, according to him, the full measure of the “housing crisis”, the “crisis of public services” as well as the “climate crisis” – “the most decisive for our common future. – which are rampant in Quebec. “To meet these challenges, to get out of these crises, Quebec needs a visionary government,” said GabrielNadeau-Dubois, while in turn promising a “united” alternative solution to the “millions of people in Quebec who do not feel represented by this government, by this Prime Minister ”.
The parliamentary leader of the Parti Québécois, Joël Arseneau, also deplored the exercise of “CAQ marketing” to which François Legault devoted himself on Tuesday: “agreed formulas, rather touting slogans, promises already heard too, of the rhetoric, what ”.
The member for Îles-de-la-Madeleine notably urged the government to strengthen Bill 96, which aims to ensure the sustainability of French: the “official language” of Quebec, the “common language” of the Quebec nation. “Despite the Prime Minister’s words, Bill 96 is sorely lacking in boldness and courage,” he said.
In addition, Joël Arseneau called on Wednesday the National Assembly, including the nationalists within the CAQ, to “take note of the fact that Canada is ashamed of Quebec and that it is trying to make it a province like any other, a docile and obedient province ”. “If we are serious in the assertions to evoke our freedom, our pride, we must speak of independence”, he argued.