A government’s second term is often painful.
We are comfortably installed in power, we are less hungry, we have less energy.
Sneakily, without realizing it, you become cynical and arrogant, you become your own enemy.
Blows
This is exactly what is happening to the Legault government.
Many have noted the eagerness with which the CAQists respond to columnists whose opinion is not appreciated.
It is however not as if there were not more urgent, or as if the Legault government was not surrounded by much more formidable adversaries.
Muslim associations will challenge in court the ban on prayer rooms in public schools in Quebec.
The federal government is increasing the number of prayer rooms in its buildings. The gap widens.
The National Council of Canadian Muslims came to propose the introduction in Bill C-18 of a so-called code of ethics governing the press organs disseminating allegedly hateful content.
It was mainly aimed at the newspaper you are currently reading.
Asked to comment on this project to endow Canada with a population of 100 million in 2100, the federal Minister of Immigration replies that this is not the policy of his government.
However, the PLC and the NDP voted against a Bloc motion to formally dissociate themselves from it, and the federal objectives for the next few years lead us there anyway.
A foreign student wants to come to a Canadian university? Ottawa rejects 20% of English applicants, but 50% of French applicants.
A lawyer asks for a Canadian visa for her Saudi client. He is answered: […] kindly send us your query in English so that we can assist you. »
- Listen to the column of Joseph Facal, columnist for the Journal de Montréal & the Journal de Québec at the microphone of Richard Martineau via QUB-radio :
And I don’t need to tell you again about the ongoing legal challenges to Quebec laws on language and secularism.
In short, while the noose is tightening, the blows are raining down, the Caquist government is apathetic, indifferent, resigned, when it does not itself kick the knife in its own boat.
He announces a consultation on the number of permanent immigrants without taking into account the real issue: uncontrolled temporary immigration… which will often become permanent.
It decides that Aboriginal students will be exempted from the obligation to pass a French test to obtain their college diploma if, among other conditions, they attended an Anglophone college.
The justification ? their ancestral rights. The real reason: their poor command of French, when it is not downright non-existent.
See the irony: Aboriginal rights justify an exemption for those who primarily speak… the colonizer’s language.
Silence
Last year at this time, François Legault spoke of our “Louisianization” if Quebec did not obtain new powers in immigration, if it were not slowed down, if there was not a start.
He was kicked out by Trudeau. Radio silence since. The urgency is gone.
Our confidence is also melting.
Look no further for the causes of the rise in the PQ.