Geneviève Guilbault (GG), supported by Prime Minister Legault and in complicity with him, has just shot several of her elected colleagues from the Quebec region under the bus with the announcement of the abandonment of the third highway link.
She does not care, because she is campaigning for the leadership of her party, the CAQ. A little more and she will eventually push behind the PM’s back, so that he enjoys a retirement that she will consider due.
May these deputies take full advantage of their mandate, they may not experience more in their lives.
If I were them, I would park my vehicle away from my office, drive around on the garden side and subscribe to Netflix, Crave, and tutti quanti, because they have a few months to go.
And do not believe that Mr. Legault decided last week to pull the plug on the project. He’s been convinced of it for a while, he just had to find the least ridiculous alibi.
Not creative for 5 cents, he blamed the pandemic, once again taking us for village idiots, a redundant attitude at home.
Now convince me that GG, the Deputy Prime Minister, didn’t know…
For GG and the PM, now that the elections were over, and they are at the start of a strong mandate, they calculated that it was the right time to let go of the skunk. We shake our butts and go! for the pass of the coughing pig, the government must get rid of the beast.
In any misfortune something is good, GG had also understood that in his march to the supreme office, to look like a dinosaur in sustainable development was a very bad idea.
Yes, it rattles in Quebec and the surrounding area, but it can look great elsewhere. And she has already begun to calculate her success across Quebec. The law of large numbers is well worth some local sacrifices.
Courage, they called it. Not sure, GG has rather adjusted the counters, even if it means that some of his dear colleagues and friends from Quebec must receive their severance pay.
No worries for her in Louis-Hébert, in any case, her voters will understand the twist.
French President François Mitterrand had already explained why “indifference” was a necessary quality to succeed in the profession. This feeling which makes it possible to analyze the events and the political insults in altitude, without being contrite.
With indifference comes cynicism and Machiavellianism, two corollaries of a way of behaving in the political sphere.
Obviously, lies and pettiness are acceptable, because sovereign. And to be able to manage these skills, a good dose of narcissism is also helpful, which he did not lack.
Mitterrand ticked all the boxes. Thus, possibly, of a hard socialism, made among other things of several nationalizations, he succeeded in making swallow the snake of the market economy to his troops. Result: two seven years, 14 years of royal power.
GG has several of these attributes. Among other things, she can lie right in your face with incredible aplomb. Of course, she’s not the only one, others are capable of it, often in a stupid way however, but I don’t know anyone in this universe who does it with as much panache as GG.
This was the case again last Thursday, when, despite his very solid performance, his ministry’s own documents completely contradicted his first argument, on the drop in road traffic, to abandon the major project.
It was also amazing to hear her use public transit Esperanto, a new language she would have renounced only a few weeks ago.
You really have to do it!
This woman is imposing, and has a disarming guts. Great leadership qualities. But like many politicians, she too often wipes her feet on the ethical carpet.
With the story of the tunnel exclusive to public transit, she may succeed in bringing into the world another fair of political delusions in Quebec City, which will allow politicians of all levels to be intelligent and virtuous on the question of mobility for a few years.
Good for them, but this tunnel will never be built!
Because the traffic won’t be there. For reasons that I have explained at length in the past few days.
Moreover, no council of ministers, in Quebec or in Ottawa, will decide to invest 5 billion dollars for this purpose for 8 kilometers of route under the river, with all the risks that entails, without guaranteed usage figures. very important in public transport.
Because GG admitted that the cost estimate for the two tubes had reached 10 billion dollars. So, one tube out of two equals 5 billion?
And with 5 billion, you can build a structuring transport network that covers a large part of the South Shore and is linked to the tramway on the North Shore in Quebec.
Once all that said, the village idiot has not finished being mystified by the CAQ, because another real political path does not exist in Quebec.
Between us
Dear readers, you notice that my boss, this tyrant, made me work on a day off.
My usual schedule includes five weekend days and two more for working, washing my hair and other related tasks.
Once will not hurt, and I would like the federal officials on strike to note that I am doing all this without any supplement, at a simple rate. We are bordering on exploitation!