Message to politicians: are you falling in the polls? Is your popularity rating at its lowest?
People criticize you more and more because they find that you manage their city, their province or their country completely wrong?
Get filmed eating a good fufu with seed sauce and put it on TikTok.
You will resurrect your career.
It doesn’t take more than that to rise from your ashes and reassure the populace.
A good bowl of fufu, and bingo, voila!
Tin toé, PSPP, try to do the same!
Get filmed eating a king clam with Francis Reddy and Boucar Diouf!
THE MAYORESS’S COMIC
I would like to know who, in Mr. Legault’s entourage, had this brilliant idea.
“The next time an influencer asks you to try an exotic dish, take a minute of your precious time and accept! It will be great for your image! Look at Mr. Arruda: he became the darling of Quebecers by sharing his Portuguese tartlet recipe while old people were dying with their mouths open in CHSLDs!”
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I understand that politicians don’t work 24 hours a day. That they are human beings like you and me and that they have the right to have fun and have hobbies.
But when problems pile up and anger brews among the population, can they keep a little embarrassment?
Give us the impression that every second of their active life is devoted to one and only thing: getting their city, their province or their country out of trouble?
Look at what is happening in Montreal.
The city has become an open-air asylum. People are more and more afraid of taking the metro (my daughter was attacked by a drug addict in crisis on the night of Thursday to Friday). Homeless people are forced to shit in the street because there are no longer any public toilets available to them.
And what does Valérie Plante do?
She has just published her second comic!
Are you kidding me, Madam Mayor?
Do you realize how much we don’t care about your comic strip?
Have you seen your city?
It’s a dump. A pigsty. A pigsty.
And you had time to work on your second comic?
Didn’t you want to release these books after your time in the City, and not during?
Because currently, the city that you lead is in such bad shape that the Grande Bibliothèque where Montrealers will rush to borrow your second opus serves as a refuge for drug addicts and poor people suffering from mental illness.
Photo taken from Tiktok, @antho.tran
AN IMAGE GOVERNMENT
Are politicians tired of being disrespected?
Let them start by respecting themselves.
“Authority does not come without prestige, and prestige without distance,” said de Gaulle (whose history does not say whether he liked béchamel sauce, pineapple pizza or maple-braised ham).
The Roman historian Tacitus said the same thing: “Remote increases prestige.”
Is there a person, a single person in all of Quebec who decided to give their vote back to the CAQ because François Legault likes fufu seed sauce?
If Mr. Legault doesn’t have time to answer legitimate questions from journalists regarding important issues, he doesn’t have time to play culinary critic on TikTok!
Same message to Ms. Sonia LeBel, the president of the Treasury Board who, if I believe her Instagram account, would dream of being a model for the Sears catalog.
Do you know what people say about your government, Mr. Legault?
That it’s a “com” government, of images…
QED, as the other says.
“What was demonstrated.”
THE CAQ’S CHACHA
We often have the impression, when we watch the CAQ go, that the party does not know where it is going. We move forward, we move back, we contradict ourselves…
Latest blunder: while Bernard Drainville affirmed last week that the Caisse de dépôt was going to propose a revamped third link project, the Minister of the National Capital, Jonathan Julien, said that nothing was set in stone.
The CDPQ will analyze the situation and present its proposals to improve inter-river mobility.
Maybe it will be a third link, maybe not.
It feels like an Improv League game.
SEX IN A KIT
In Ontario, a man who identifies as non-binary wants to have a vagina “digging” next to his penis, and is asking that the state pay for his surgery.
The Ontario health system refuses, saying the man does not want to change sex (which would involve removing the penis), but to have two.
The conflict will be resolved in court.
Here we are, friends.
And if I feel like a man who has two penises, could I have a second one inserted at taxpayers’ expense?
HELPED DIE FOR AUTISM?
In Calgary, a 27-year-old autistic woman who suffers from attention deficit disorder requested medical assistance in dying, claiming that her suffering is intolerable.
Two doctors examined her and approved her request.
But the woman’s father turned to the courts to overturn his daughter’s request, saying her condition prevents him from making an informed decision.
This story raises important moral questions. If we extend access to medical assistance in dying to people with autism, will we also extend it to people with Down syndrome?