There are things that I can’t let go of for reasons of decency.
The Legault government rushed to introduce a bill that would make the Oath of the King optional and allow the three elected PQ members to sit.
We must applaud the speed of government.
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Immediately, voices were raised, both among readers and paid commentators, to essentially say to the elected PQ members: You had your little treat, that’s what you wanted, now hop to work, “take your responsibilities” and fold on himself on the “real business”.
They pick up, I hope, on the annoyed little tone of the sermon.
There is something ridiculous and grotesque about seeing people orbiting the PLQ draping themselves in virtue.
Let’s revisit together the “sense of responsibility” and concern for “right business” of the PLQ, which ruled from 2003 to 2018, except for 18 months.
The PLQ was Jean Charest, who secretly received an additional $75,000 a year from his party on top of his salary as prime minister.
For the PLQ, it was the director of its financing, Violette Trépanier, who confided in an e-mail: “I am overwhelmed by the Piassen”.
The PLQ was Minister Sam Hamad, who relayed strategic information to lobbyist Marc-Yvan Côté.
The PLQ was the one who threw Minister Nathalie Normandeau under the wheels of the bus “guilty” of doing exactly what the other ministers were doing on the funding and has since been acquitted. But it needed a scapegoat.
The PLQ, it was Tony Tomassi, a real bright spot, the family minister who gave priority to childcare permits for his relatives.
The PLQ, it was fundraisers Rondeau, Bartlett and Fava, and former CEO of Société immobilière du Québec, Marc-André Fortier, who signed unusually long leases on buildings owned and, according to research by journalist Marie-Maude Denis, managed by the government transfer the released amounts to bank accounts abroad for their own benefit.
Should I continue or should I stop?
And we haven’t talked about public policy yet.
The PLQ was an ultra-centralizing healthcare reform whose fallout we’ve seen during the pandemic, particularly with CHSLDs.
The PLQ was the near complete abandonment of immigrant franking, with the results we are now hearing in Montreal.
The PLQ was the Bouchard-Taylor spectacle of reasonable accommodation followed by 10 years of total inaction.
And I could go on. I’m just starting to warm up.
Ashamed
Granted, all parties have their faults, but the sum of the PLQ’s moral faults far exceeds that of all other parties combined.
If one has been closely or indirectly associated with this assessment, one feels a little embarrassed before lecturing others.
No, sorry, great embarrassment.
