We are witnessing a real cry from the heart of this remarkable State administrator when faced with the future of our collective wealth: water. The vision defended by Sophie Brochu is part of a socially responsible approach, which combines both the economy and environmental issues. I believe that our Minister of the Economy is more in line with the narrowly economic vision, where collective wealth must promote growth at all costs (read profit at all costs), which is becoming an erroneous and deleterious precept for the world population.
Pierre Fitzgibbon has accustomed us to seeing in him an elastic ethic and a disconnection from major social issues that do not inspire confidence in me. I doubt that a super Minister of the Economy of this ilk favors an economy-environment balance, and it is not a future Minister of the Environment who will be able to stand up to him.
Moreover, there should not be a Minister for Sustainable Development because that causes, as a perverse effect, the disempowerment of the other departments in the face of these issues, which nevertheless must be integrated into their missions, with the accountability that it leads. If this were the case, the ministries of forestry and mines would have acted differently.
And it is exactly in this new decision-making logic that Ms.me Leaflet. The economy and the environment are irremediably linked, and any state action must take them into consideration, which presupposes the application of the precautionary principle in the management of resources.
Just a few months ago, Europe and other continents saw their rivers dry up[…]. Nothing guarantees that the hydraulic resources of today will be those of tomorrow. Water and energy are the gold of the future and they will be increasingly rare and sought after. Think of Europe, whose population is condemned to spend a cold winter in 2022. The cheap and wasted energy in energy-intensive organizations whose huge profits do not go into the pockets of taxpayers (aluminum smelters and cryptocurrency mines by example) is it worth the energy security of our populations in the long term?
Thank you, Ms. Brochu, for your courage and your leadership. Politicians should not only learn from it, but also become visionary and responsible servants of state.