Rickety Timatins | The Press

It was not in Quebec, I specify, I do not want to find myself on the index at home.

It was a morning, somewhere on Earth. The stomach is hollow, and moans.

I order two Timatins from the car, “Between two breads, with egg and cheese,” according to the French Academy. One with ham, and the other with bacon.

I get everything, with yes, ham and bacon, but these two supplements alone between two slices of bagel, without eggs and without cheese… Stinky, the Timatins.

The stomach, annoyed, lets go and is content with it.

The day before, I had ordered a tuna salad from a restaurant, which was served to me… without tuna!

A bad pass.

For a year or two, I have been living under enormous stress at the idea of ​​arriving after 8 p.m. in the capital of the in-between, Drummondville, and being unable to sustain myself.

Of course, I still have this soft sandwich in the fridge of a convenience store, which makes me look, despairing of being the only one of his promotion to not be able to seduce a taker.

With each of my visits to the supermarket, I also have the impression of finding myself in the corridors of a secondary school, so much the staff is visibly younger. Current average age in my opinion, secondary 4.

And I’m a ti-uncle. For decades, I’ve been eating the same pizza, from the same chain of restaurants. It comforts me, soothes me, connects me to the ground and makes me travel in time, past. But my last experience with her traumatized me. She betrayed me, she no longer tasted the same! I was broken by it. As if I were becoming an orphan.

I cannot explain whether this disaster was the lot of the youth in the ovens, or of the stinginess of the owners who would have changed the recipe.

Once all these inconveniences have been exposed, but let’s admit that there is worse in the Donbass currently, far be it from me to want to blame these young people who have taken over in so many businesses in Quebec, or even the merchants.

But still.

Everyone now understands what demographers have been repeating for years, because we now feel the impact so close to us. There is an extremely serious labor crisis, a shortage, and there is no end in sight.

Of course, the governments of the last decades would have had to see beyond the end of their noses. But as the consequences were not immediate, we left the package to the next, and so on. Rolling Stone…

It’s not just indifference on the part of our governments, it would be unfair to assume that. Actions have been taken, such as the Quebec government’s major investment in training in strategic trades, announced a few months ago. Like last week’s CAQ announcement on vocational training.

But when you read the programs of the other parties, so far, apart from the known proposals on retired workers, we are in the big statements of principle, vaporous, which are not worth a lot of money. In total, with what is on the table, it will not be enough.

Why do we not feel a national emergency, when we know we are in molasses up to our necks?

Why don’t we explain that there will be a shortage of so many workers in the coming decades, and that we have a comprehensive, clear plan that will meet these needs, in the major sectors of activity, with so many new workers , thanks to the sum of such solutions? A hole, a peg.

At the moment, we hear too much of the approximate from governments. As it will be necessary to allow more disabled people to enter the labor market, for example. Sorry ? Are we really there? We will soon be convinced that prisoners will be forced to work in ankle chains, as was done in the past, and perhaps still, in the southern United States.

And we may think that we will soon invent a robot to go and torch in CHSLDs, where I will eventually become a client. Note that a robot would not catch COVID-19, a sure win.

Or that restaurants will turn into cafeterias without servers.

And there is this eminently delicate subject of immigration. Commonly expressed as immigration thresholds. In Quebec, we want to control this immigration, I understand that. But the immigrant admissions organization looks out of whack, and too often heartless.

And there are these other humans, who run their businesses, their businesses, who create wealth, for whom we have created an indescribable obstacle course to welcome new workers. We feel a huge discouragement among traders and entrepreneurs.

We should not be surprised if the latter ogle Mexico to establish themselves there. Net losses on the horizon.

Finally… if there is something that Quebecers deserve from all political parties during this election campaign, it is an elaborate vision of how much, when and how this labor crisis will be resolved.

Go on ! Are we going crazy there? We are capable.