We want to tell Prime Minister Legault to calm down his transport in the face of Justin Trudeau, not to give reason to the latter who constantly slaps and humiliates the nationalist Prime Minister, but to protect Quebecers mistreated the greatness of Canada.
How could François Legault have believed that the provincial premiers would be in solidarity with Quebec? By what naivety or according to what approximate reading of reality could he have believed that his false friend, Doug Ford, would support him on the question of the Canadian health transfer?
François Legault, who has sovereignty tattooed around his heart despite everything, whatever the current PQ thinks, believes that to become independent, Quebecers must be richer. This explains his obsession with his goal of becoming as wealthy as Ontario, for him the benchmark. Hence the presence in this government of economic ministers on whom he is counting to realize his dream.
The future
This is why he gives pride of place to Pierre Fitzgibbon, who despite his bad temper, his smugness and his arrogance towards the media succeeds in his smoking guns and does not let anyone destabilize him. Pierre Fitzgibbon, as federalist as he is, leads François Legault towards sunnier paths for Quebec than the triumphant federalism of Trudeau, the pugilist, who, at each request of Prime Minister Legault, knocks him out
François Legault knows Quebecers because he looks like them. However, despite his personal financial success, despite his political success – it was a masterstroke to have succeeded in this coalition, which enabled the French-speaking majority to occupy power in the National Assembly – and despite his spectacular performance during the pandemic, Mr. Legault cannot overcome a minority complex.
His way of countering it consists in provoking Justin Trudeau, but he forgets that this one, however elected in Quebec, has more affinities and empathy towards his postnational Canada. Unsurprisingly, the word “nationalism”, which refers to Quebec, annoys and repels him. Like François Legault, too many Quebecers who expect concessions from Ottawa in their favor are kidding themselves.
Trudeauism
The Trudeauist conception of Justin son has moved away and continues to move away from that of Trudeau senior, Jean Chrétien and all the virulent and effective anti-nationalists of the end of the spectacular reign of the PLC, the party which condemned Quebec sovereignty. and neutralized and then smashed our greatest politician, René Lévesque.
How to convince François Legault to stop playing hot and cold with Ottawa when he is prisoner of a brutal reality? Barring a miracle, sovereignty supported by only one-third of Quebecers, including a large number of older voters, cannot bring about a vibrant revival of the idea of sovereignty in the medium term.
In this perspective, let’s live in the present, but outside the arena where Justin Trudeau likes to trample us. We can already hear the cries of those who believe that we are throwing in the towel, that we are definitely crashing. But the political and social context is already so terrible to live with that the French-speaking majority must take some respite from failures. If only to heal the wounds of these past years that have been so trying and cruel.