Barely a year ago, François Legault was an acclaimed prime minister, connecting deeply with Quebecers. He was in the same tone as them. Everything went wrong after the elections. And his popularity began to fall.
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I have often explained here why: lack of vision, deficient nationalism, narrow conception of economic development. François Legault knew how to grow in his first mandate with secularism and his defense of Quebec identity. He also knew how to play his role as a good father during the pandemic.
Disconnect
But we are no longer there. And François Legault seems disoriented.
Can François Legault reconnect with Quebecers?
It’s still possible. The man has real qualities.
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But this will require more than a session of media self-flagellation where the Prime Minister apologizes for having disappointed Quebecers, and is sorry that they are angry with him.
This is another strategy that should be prescribed to him.
He should first summon Quebecers for a speech to the nation to publicly explain what he probably knows deep down: at the end of the century, if nothing is done, the Quebec people will simply be assimilated – it will only survive as a folk ethnic minority on its historic territory.
With this in mind, he should explain that his mandate will seek to reverse this destructive dynamic.
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Speech to the nation
To do this, it should completely change its immigration policy to break with the principle of mass immigration and launch a major project of linguistic and cultural reconquest of Montreal.
Then, he should demand a new Bélanger-Campeau commission on the political status of Quebec and its place in Canada.
In other words, François Legault must once again become a true nationalist.
Obviously, if he does this, he will shock his friends at the boss’s boy club.
But he will reconnect with Quebecers.