Denis Coderre announced to us that the next provincial election in Quebec will be played on the federalist-separatist axis. But, apart from the old fears brought back from the 1980s, as Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon mentions, which Canada will be able to defend Denis Coderre? What arguments can our self-proclaimed Captain Canada use to convince us to stay?
A postnational state that erases identities? Unbridled immigration intended to dilute us? A French language that we are helping to eliminate through negligence? The oil state with its ecological varnish that is peeling on all sides? A dollar at 74¢ US? An underperforming and wasteful public service, but so secretive? An international policy weakened by so much consensus?
And, if by chance, the putative leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec led the No camp with a Poilievre government, would he boast to us of an obscurantism worthy of the Harper years, now more simplistic and belligerent, galvanized by the Trumpism that inspires him? ?
Mr. Coderre will have his work cut out to justify why we should continue to support such duplication of increasingly overlapping state structures, but with so little results. As when he had to explain what pushed him towards Montreal city hall, he risks having as his only argument that he “loves Canada”. A little thin.
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