We have never seen our Prime Minister like this before as he begins his sixth year in power. It looks like he not only lost the Jean-Talon by-election, he also seems to have lost his compass.
Nothing is going well for Legault. Unable to bear the greatest insult of being compared to Jean Charest and Jean Chrétien, he walked the corridors of Parliament murmuring his reactions to the day’s events.
Sovereignty catches up with him
When he was picked on by Paul St-Pierre Plamondon during question time, it was obvious that the abandonment of his first political cause, sovereignty, was beginning to catch up with him.
How could it have been different? In fact, no one among those who really knew Legault believed for a second that he had truly abandoned his separatist beliefs.
In reality, he analyzes these emotional acts like an accountant. It’s not that he has become a proud Canadian, he just assumes that sovereignty is unattainable.
Young and fiery, just like François Legault 25 years ago, PSPP is at its best. To be clear, I absolutely do not believe that his political project is viable, just as I do not believe in the numbers for his first year budget.
What fascinates the PQ leader is his simple determination and conviction, which is astonishingly sincere. If “faith can move mountains,” the PSPP’s belief in the sovereign cause is driving François Legault away from his base. And he knows it all too well…
Lost political reflexes
Legault’s good old political reflexes now seem to need “lines” prepared by his political staff. While still in the hallways, he railed against the sovereign project and the annual budget for a sovereign Quebec, but didn’t even seem to believe in his own lines. It was pathetic to watch.
Legault has also just discovered that he is a socialist fighting against the privileges of the elites! His heated reaction to the resignations of six former Quebec premiers actually betrayed his anger at his government’s current situation, in which nothing seems to be working.
Legault even attempted a coup by hitting about a hundred public sector protesters who had gathered near Parliament. Complete
He negotiated within a formal legal framework and began presenting his vision for differential wages to union members.
It is as if a boss is making his case directly at the factory while formal negotiations are underway with a properly recognized union. He slips.
Contempt for excellence
His haughty rejection of the unanimous advice of all former Quebec premiers and his recent attacks on English-language universities had a strange common denominator: his contempt for excellence.
Three former PQ prime ministers and three Liberals all told him his project would sacrifice centers of excellence. You’re right, but like with universities, Legault does what he wants.
All of Quebec will lose.
