Mr Legault,
Will you entrust your grandchildren to me?
As a ski instructor at Mont-Sainte-Anne, less than a month from the start of the season programs, I am feverish.
Will my groups be homogeneous? Will there be special needs among my students? Are my teaching tools up to date? Will I find former students? All these questions get answers from the snow school. Marvellous ! Life is Beautiful !
Have you ever attended the departure of group lessons on Saturday morning? A real hive! The coordination is impeccable, and the smiles are there for nearly 800 young people.
The parents will extract the children from their safe booster seat, installed in their safe car. They will entrust what they hold most precious to the world. I then become responsible for the safety of their children. I teach alpine skiing, a risky sport, but I am trained to manage this risk.
But I can’t manage the biggest risk at Mont-Sainte-Anne: the ski lifts.
The ski lifts have, for the most part, reached the end of their useful life. The repeated incidents of the cable car are eloquent examples of this! The “Turtle” is more often down than it works and, if the north chair scares you, there is always the T-bar… not young, but it freezes less during the chair’s frequent stops.
Fortunately, more seasoned students have access to the ski lift in the expert sector, which is more recent and comfortable. You know, it’s the one that leads to the magnificent chalet on the ridge… abandoned at the start of the CPR contract!
So Mr. Legault,
would I have the chance to teach downhill skiing to your grandchildren in this context? Will you take this risk?