Etiket: Dutrisac
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] Funny pre-campaign
Even before the official launch of the election campaign — the Prime Minister has the privilege of choosing a date between August 25 and August 29 — in view of…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] The French slide
Statistics Canada has just released data from the 2021 census on the languages spoken in the country. As demographers expected, the federal agency reports a decline in French in Quebec…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] When water is scarce
Who would have thought that one day Quebec, which has 3% of the planet’s fresh water reserves, would face water shortages. This was the case last year in Sutton, but…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] On the starting line of the electoral campaign
The four parties represented in the National Assembly, as well as the Conservative Party of Quebec, are preparing their weapons for the launch of the election campaign at the end…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] Towards Indigenous Self-Determination in Education
In mid-July, the Trudeau government opened its pockets in order to assume its responsibilities towards Aboriginal people in terms of education in Quebec. The Government of Quebec, which also has…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] The Horne foundry in Rouyn-Noranda can become a world example
It is high time that the owner of the Horne smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, the Swiss multinational Glencore, set about drastically reducing its arsenic emissions into the air, but also the…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] LNG Projects and Canadian Aims
A year ago almost to the day, the Legault government, through the mouth of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Benoit Charette, announced the abandonment of the Énergie Saguenay…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] Federalism of dilettantes
This is the non-news of the summer: meeting within the framework of the Council of the Federation, the provincial premiers once again demanded that Ottawa increase the Canada Health Transfer…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] distinct society
At the start, the concept of distinct society, taken up by Robert Bourassa and Brian Mulroney in the context of the Meech Lake accord, seemed like a euphemism to avoid…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] Much thought is needed
Delivering an assessment of his mandate, the Minister of Education, Jean-François Roberge, declared, in an interview granted to the To have tothat it will take “a good five years” before…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] The cross and the banner
Until recently, the CAQ government refused to recognize the very existence of a housing crisis. Last April, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Andrée Laforest, finally admitted the reality.…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] René Lévesque always current
Anyone who has ever met René Lévesque has been struck by his apparent shyness, his simplicity, but also by his magnetism, the intensity that emanated from this man of action…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] The Liberal Capitulation on Language
During its last general council, which took place on Saturday, the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) unveiled its electoral platform and in particular its commitments in terms of culture and…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] Ottawa’s choice to anglicize Quebec
While the Trudeau government is proposing to reform its Official Languages Act in the face of the failure of its language policy, which has resulted in the irresistible assimilation of…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] Autonomist weakness
The political class in Quebec has spoken a lot about sovereignty and its counterpart, federalism, over the past fortnight. The arrival of Caroline St-Hilaire and Bernard Drainville, not so much…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] Far from cut to the lips in terms of land use planning
Forty-three years after the adoption of the Act respecting land use planning and development, the Caquiste government is providing Quebec with a National Policy on Architecture and Land Use Planning,…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] False problems and real issues
While the CAQ government plans to organize a vast summit on the demographic and linguistic issues facing Quebec, Premier François Legault has managed to get embroiled in notions relating to…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] Survival and resignation
There was a lot of talk of pride at the national convention of the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ). François Legault spoke of the two poles of his government, prosperity and…
Quebec free of its choices, the editorial by Robert Dutrisac
Forty years after the imposition of a constitutional reform that curtailed the powers of the Assembly and refused any formal recognition of the Quebec nation, the federal government, responding to…
[Éditorial de Robert Dutrisac] Court of Quebec: pampered judges, underpaid staff
The chief judge of the Court of Quebec, Lucie Rondeau, maintains the pressure on the CAQ government. Earlier this year, the magistrate decreed that from September, the judges of the…