This week, many observers missed a crucial event. Which one ?
Before that, allow me a little background.
Canadians pay taxes to their provincial government and to Ottawa.
Ottawa uses it to help the provinces fund their healthcare systems.
bribery
When our modern healthcare systems were created, Ottawa paid 50% of the cost. Today it is 22%.
Taxes paid to Ottawa have not decreased.
The provinces want Ottawa to fund 35% of the bill.
Ottawa is blackmailing you: If you want my money (which is yours and mine), you will accept my terms.
Ottawa’s health “performance” on Aboriginal State Reservations does not prevent it from posing as a teacher.
To put pressure on Ottawa, the provinces pulled together…until last Wednesday.
Ontario premier broke provincial common front: he would accept terms from Ottawa for money.
Decisive event and simultaneously occurred a thousand times before.
A united provincial front has never been able to persuade Ottawa to give in. Never.
Ottawa breaks it by negotiating bit by bit.
- Hear the column by Joseph Facal, columnist for the Journal de Montréal & the Journal de Québec, on the microphone of Richard Martineau QUB radio :
This comes at a time when François Legault said he was confident of reaching a satisfactory agreement.
We see now how vulnerable the Legault government’s unconditional federalism with no balance of power puts Quebec.
Aside from the occasional reference to Quebec “values,” what is the real take on CAQ “nationalism”?
Unfortunately, with the specter of Quebec’s “Louisianization” raised, language reform lacks ambition.
At a time when the delusional federal goals of immigration are entailing the desired drowning of French Quebec, the Legault administration’s discretion is tantamount to an abdication.
What does it take for the responsible minister and her government to raise their voice?
Federal regulations on funding university research lead to these competitions to fill positions that white men are formally excluded from, simply “systematic” discrimination.
What will it take for the Minister of Higher Education to break her silence?
The demand for a uniform tax return has long been forgotten. I’ll spare you all the other renunciations.
Will François Legault stay in our history books only as the one who followed Philippe Couillard and went through the pandemic?
Nationalist rhetoric aside, what results, what tangible gains for Quebec within Canada?
We are becoming Acadians at high speed.
Is that what Mr. Legault and the nationalists around him want?
- Hear the column by Joseph Facal, columnist for the Journal de Montréal & the Journal de Québec, on the microphone of Richard Martineau QUB radio :
Impossible
The CAQ dangled the illusion of a third way between liberal renunciation and PQ independence.
Where is she actually? Done, vaporize! No wonder, really, since it never existed except in the form of a fantasy.
On June 2, Mr. Legault said: “I am a nationalist in Canada”.
There’s just one small problem: it’s impossible to be a Quebec nationalist by accepting Canada as it is.
