In recent days, some commentators have said that presenting a sovereign Quebec’s public finances, also called a first-year budget, would be a bad idea. It would give the impression of a PQ separate from Quebecers.
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Then they take a serious look and tell us that right now Quebecers want to talk about the shopping basket and not the country. Above all, this pseudo-pragmatism reflects a very limited political vision.
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The political life of a people is not limited to individual concerns that affect the daily life of each individual. The framework in which we make our collective decisions impacts individual lives.
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Independence would allow Quebec to make its own decisions without interference from Ottawa and free itself from a federal bureaucracy that is nothing short of wasteful and insanely wasteful.
The money that Quebecers wasted on maintaining this great thing, the Canadian federation, could be used for much more concrete tasks.
From this point of view, the equalization is an illusion: it creates the impression of a Quebec with financial support from Canada, while cleverly concealing the financial costs of our participation in the federation.
- Listen to the live broadcast of the meeting between Mathieu Bock-Côté and Richard Martineau every day at 10:30 a.m QUB radio :
Through this debate, independence is once again becoming a topic of conversation beyond the militant sovereigntist circles that have kept the flame alive for some twenty years.
Independence is a question of identity, freedom, efficiency and prosperity.
Anyone who believes that this budget is reserved for the PQ’s militant base is mistaken.
The Quebecers are learning to reorient themselves towards the future, they are visualizing their fate in the form of an independent country.
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Sovereignty is no longer the issue that only concerns the old politicized uncle of the family who knew René Lévesque: it is once again becoming a living political project that responds to Quebec’s existential and concrete problems.
The next yes camp is taking shape before our eyes.
