(Montreal) Yvon Deschamps is “unhappy with what is happening in politics” on the sidelines of the current election campaign.
Posted yesterday at 11:58
This is the expression he spontaneously used at the start of an interview with The Canadian Press on the current election campaign.
From the height of his 87 years, with a bright eye and a sharp mind, the comedian did not hesitate to comment on politics as he has often done in the past, and his remarks are both scathing and sad from what he sees.
Independence, but apolitical
“I don’t know why we are having an election campaign. I don’t think anyone will take the place of the CAQ! There are no other parties right now that can do that and that’s terrible. »
You have to have followed the history of Yvon Deschamps’ interventions to understand that he is not critical of the CAQ for all that. An independentist from the start, the comedian has nevertheless always defined himself as apolitical, believing that the question of independence is above the parties. Approached by many parties, the only office he ever accepted was that of leader of the “Action démagogique du Québec” in The Parliamenteries on the stage of the St-Denis Theater in 2008.
“I don’t like it at all”
What worries him is rather the space occupied by the Coalition avenir Québec, or rather that which its adversaries do not occupy: “We would like to have a democracy. We would like to have strong opposition parties, but here the CAQ is on its own. I don’t like that at all. It worries me. »
In this regard, he recalls the time when the Progressive Conservative Party split in two with the creation of the Reform Party, which was to become the Canadian Alliance before reuniting with the Conservative Party: “It was As was the case at the federal level for a long time, when the Conservatives split into two gangs and squabbled among themselves instead of taking care of affairs of state, the Liberal Party (of Canada) could do anything what. No big deal, there was no opposition! »
“I wouldn’t want that to happen here. I hope that the political parties will take themselves in hand, that they will wake up and that they will find how to find the hearts of Quebecers, how to get them,” he continues.
“I don’t know what we want”
Like everyone else, he notes that the old sovereigntist-federalist duality is no longer at the heart of political life and, according to him, this obliteration of the national question has created a void that no one has been able to fill: “By reflecting , I myself am unable to define what do we want? I don’t know what we want. I don’t know anymore. »
“Before it was simple. We want to separate, we are working on it. By working on that, we took the hair of the beast, we did things and even if there was no separation, it does not matter; it kept us going. It was something that kicked us in the ass to say: You have to prove that you can do something on your own, so move your ass. »
“There, it seems that we have no goal, something that pushes us everyone. We no longer know where we are! “, he concludes.