Part of what keeps us alive when things are going badly is curiosity about what might happen, the hope that, against all odds, things will get better, that maybe it will even go well. to finish.
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This explains why, through their optimism and despite their non-politically correct side, the adventures of Tintin are successful all over the world.
Pauline Julien
Besides, the story doesn’t always have to end well – our little story will all end badly one day anyway. But in the meantime, the important thing is that we live, while trying to give meaning to our life and make it as interesting, even as thrilling as possible.
That’s what I thought on Saturday evening when I left a theatrical performance invigorated – how we missed the theater! – on the life of Pauline Julien, superbly embodied by actress Catherine Allard.
The life of the passionaria of the great years of Quebec nationalism was marked by the failure of her dreams of independence to end tragically, the singer having killed herself after years of a degenerative disease having deprived her of the ability to speak.
But the play shows that basically it doesn’t matter, since Pauline Julien lived her life magnificently, with ardor and passion, that she dreamed, sang, acted and loved the poet and politician Gérald Godin.
And we say to ourselves that the independence of Quebec will perhaps come true one day. Or not…
magic of politics
You are probably wondering where the present columnist is coming from. Good old politics, of course. To which we always come back despite the constantly renewed disappointments, the always tempting cynicism.
Like the law of the jungle which it constitutes, politics is often neither moral nor just, even if it can be and the worst is never certain: Russia may invade Ukraine. , but China may leave Taiwan alone, while the planet does not end up charred.
Politics, it’s his magic, is made in the image of life itself: of constantly renewed hopes, of things that should not have happened and yet do.
But still it is necessary to keep the hope, the youth of the hope. Take last week’s new politics, this poll showing the impressive progress of Éric Duhaime’s Conservative Party.
Who would have thought that the so despised and so ridiculed Duhaime would surpass Québec solidaire, that he would steal his place from the darling of maple spring, this Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois whom François Legault had carefully chosen as his opponent?
The Prime Minister is clearly paying the price for the collective trauma that his government has imposed on Quebecers during the holidays by focusing too exclusively on the health system, while the clearest and most determined opponent of its health management benefits.
The brown plague
Will the emergence of Éric Duhaime be just a flash in the pan? Will he sink quickly under the attacks of commentators who are almost unanimously hostile to him? Will he be irremediably discredited for his populist side, his libertarian acquaintances in a centrist political culture that has always been centrist and resolutely progressive since the Quiet Revolution?
Whatever happens, those who judge Quebec deeply mired in an unhealthy health ideology can only rejoice that the rise of Duhaime leads Legault to move on his restrictions, no offense to all the self-proclaimed expert commentators of the Belle Province .
The emergence of Duhaime also gives hope to those who believe that Quebec needs a moderate conservatism, of good quality, in the same way that a car needs brakes not to get lost in the background.
That said, in order to be able to even dare to envisage that the new Quebec political deal that is looming has positive aspects, it is important not to decide, from the outset, as a well-known columnist has just done, that conservatism is a virus. Why not the brown plague, as long as there is?
Above all, you have to be able to do what Quebec society seems less and less able to do: assume the risk that is inseparable from all life.
To Francois Legault
A big thank you, Mr. Prime Minister, for having abandoned this crazy reform of the voting system, which could only ultimately result in a decline in the political weight of Francophones in Quebec.
We just regret that you have not been able to admit that a head of government is never required to implement all his electoral promises, that it is on the contrary his duty not to do so when he realizes that one of those promises was obviously misguided.
Thank you also for the abandonment of the masochistic funding of our collective anglicization in the Dawson College file. As an extension of this decision, all you have to do is apply Law 101 to CEGEPs.