Etiket: Dutrisacs
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: at the mercy of inflation
The rising cost of living has become a major concern of the political class in Quebec and elsewhere. A few days ago, Prime Minister François Legault promised that his government,…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: welcoming Ukrainians without forgetting Afghans
The Trudeau government has opened two gateways to welcome Ukrainians who would like to flee their country at war. The first is to grant them authorization to make an emergency…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: tar and feathers
The offensive in Ukraine by Russia, the major hydrocarbon producer on which the countries of Europe depend, has given new life to the old conservative discourse on ethical oil. In…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: illusory equality
Last spring, Mélanie Joly, then Minister responsible for Official Languages, presented Bill C-32, a major reform of the law in the spirit of the document she had made public in…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: Discrimination tolerated
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) recognizes that it discriminates against French-speaking foreign students applying to study in Quebec or the rest of Canada, particularly against students from French-speaking Africa.…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: time to get it over with
Now that the fifth wave of the pandemic is subsiding and that the gradual abandonment of constraints is well underway, the opposition parties have continued this week to demand an…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: Quebec dropped
With the exception of 2020, a year marked by severe restrictions linked to the pandemic, the Trudeau government is flying from record to record in terms of immigration. This week,…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: even more private daycares
The Minister of Families, Mathieu Lacombe, has promised to complete the network of subsidized childcare services by adding 37,000 places by 2025. What he did not tell us is that…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: Still hydrocarbons
With Bill 21, the CAQ government formalizes the end of oil and gas exploration and exploitation in Quebec. The potential of deposits, when they exist, is not amazing. That’s small…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: putting an end to confinement
The fifth wave, marked by the meteoric spread of the Omicron variant, is drawing to a close. Backed by public health, François Legault announced the gradual abandonment of most health…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: brake on Dawson
Higher Education Minister Danielle McCann has confirmed that the Legault government is abandoning the Dawson College expansion project. In the boxes of the Couillard government, this project, on which the…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: reducing the mountain of garbage
Two years ago, the Minister of the Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change, Benoit Charette, announced the extension of the deposit to beverage containers from 100 milliliters to 2…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: remedying our collective failure
The health and well-being commissioner, Joanne Castonguay, delivered a rigorous and implacable observation on the shortcomings that led to the carnage in CHSLDs during the first wave of COVID-19, in…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: half-truths and lies
The least we can say is that the testimony of the Minister responsible for Seniors and Caregivers, Marguerite Blais, before coroner Géhane Kamel did not dispel the detestable impression of…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: forcing the hand of the recalcitrant
Without giving details on the health contribution that his government wishes to impose on unvaccinated people, François Legault indicated Thursday that parliamentarians will have their say on the question. The…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: the dropouts
It was through a phone call from one of François Legault’s political advisers, on a Friday afternoon at Christmas week, that the president of the New Democracy Movement (MDN), Jean-Pierre…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: dealing with the most urgent
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presented an economic and budget update that is just that. But what is not a mini-budget still adds some 61 billion in new spending for the…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: creating workers
In the general elections of 2014, the liberal leader, Philippe Couillard, flanked by his economic trio formed by Carlos Leitão, Martin Coiteux and Jacques Daoust, pledged to create 250,000 jobs…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: an extraordinary situation
An extraordinary economic performance allows the Legault government to pay at the beginning of 2022, an election year, an exceptional benefit totaling more than 700 million to 3.3 million low-…
Robert Dutrisac’s editorial: vague continuation
New Governor General Mary Simon’s Speech from the Throne was different from that of just over a year ago. While a trumpeting interventionism marked the speech of September 2020, considerably…