What do neighbors say three times out of four when a tragedy occurs in a home?
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“We could never have predicted that. He was a good little guy, a good neighbor, not one word was louder than another, he did his own thing in his own corner without bothering anyone… We don’t understand what happened…”
This is exactly how Quebecers see themselves!
Good people who do their own thing in their corner, who don’t like arguments and never say one word louder than the other.
How can we explain that the October Crisis existed? Polytechnic? Dawson? The Metropole? The Quebec mosque?
Here at home?
A province so quiet, so peaceful?
“We don’t understand it, we could never have guessed…”
LORD OF THE RINGS
It’s like we’re like the hobbits in our imagination.
A peaceful people who just want to smoke their pipe, drink their cider and sleep in their log cabin.
As if our proverbial “joie de vivre” and our provincial morals would protect us from the storms sweeping the rest of the planet until the end of time!
Every time the madness of the world crosses our doorstep and turns our peace into worry, we react like the hobbits in the Lord of the Rings.
“Uh? Darkness threatens us? We? How come? We live in Middle-earth, the most peaceful region in the universe!”
That’s what we said this week when we learned that anti-Semites had shot up two Jewish schools.
“Let’s see! We’re not in France or the United States! We’re in Quebec!”
Yes, friends, we are in Quebec.
And not on a distant planet in another galaxy.
As Mathieu Bock-Côté told me on QUB radio yesterday, we are so convinced that we live on the edge of history that we are completely shocked when it knocks on our door.
If anti-Semitism is increasing around the world, there is no reason why it should not increase here too.
Unfortunately.
HATE FOR THE JEWS
It must be said that in recent years we have heard so much about Islamophobia that we have forgotten that Jews are the group most affected by racist attacks in the country!
It’s simple: three days after the cruel massacres against Israel, even before Israel reacted, we had the impression that it was Muslims who had their throats cut, beheaded and raped on October 7th!
“Look, Israel will strike! Israel will take advantage of events to exterminate the Palestinian people!”
Um… Sorry, friends, but it was Hamas that attacked. It was Hamas that carried out the worst attack against Jews since the end of the Second War!
It was Hamas that tortured parents in front of their children, beheaded children in front of their parents, and raped young Jewish girls so brutally that their pelvises were shattered when their bodies were found!
Can we please put things in perspective?
I understand that people who are paid to fight Islamophobia are afraid of being out of the spotlight, but these are still Jews who were massacred because they were Jews, right?
ANTISEMITIC PANDEMIC
So, yes, the anti-Semitic virus is now wreaking havoc among us.
And why not?
We also have universities that confuse propaganda and education.
We also have an extreme left that associates Jews with money.
We also have immigrants who were raised to hate Jews.
We also have radical imams who preach violence.
Quebec may be a peaceful place.
But these are not the times.
Education is also enriching!
Believing that the only way to create jobs in Quebec is to give billions of dollars to multi-billion dollar companies, the CAQ government has decided to increase the debt by two billion dollars to attract even more multinational companies to our country to trick into.
“But it will enrich the whole province,” we are told, to justify this expenditure.
And educating children will not enrich the province, Mr. Legault?
Isn’t caring for the sick and elderly an enrichment?
I ask the question like this…
DAMN JOURNALISTS!
I hope that the journalists of the Bureau of Investigation and the JE will apologize to the heads of the Office de communications publique de Montréal.
No, but what is the idea of holding public officials accountable? To justify their expenses? To prove that they handled our money responsibly?
Director Isabelle Beaulieu said it: They didn’t waste public money, no, they made mistakes!
Who hasn’t gone to a restaurant 77 times a year with other people’s money? Who hasn’t accidentally gotten on a plane to Brazil?
A little treat!
YOUTH AND MONEY
Young people don’t know how to manage their agent, Le Journal told us yesterday.
It’s time to teach them the basics of personal finance.
In order.
But remember how teachers’ unions reacted in 2017 when Education Minister Sébastien Proulx talked about creating a financial literacy course.
“A course concocted by banks!” thundered the president of the Autonomous Education Federation.
“A course that offers a neoliberal vision of the economy!”
In short, talking about money was devilish.
What are teachers talking about these days?
Silver.
Ironic, right?
