I want to be on the mind of François Legault on Friday before his meeting with Justin Trudeau.
It certainly feels like before going to a condo gathering where one of the neighbors is a millionaire and owns more than half of the condos. You can ask anything you want, but it’s not up to you.
Especially since it’s difficult to understand Justin Trudeau’s strategy.
In an interview, he said Quebec could accept twice as many immigrants as he wanted: 112,000 instead of 50,000. That is more than all provincial parties had proposed during the election campaign.
He also said that amid a crisis in pediatric emergencies, he had no intention of moving forward on the health hearing file.
No more money until there is reform, he says!
However, reforms have already started in several provinces, but he has not yet put an amount on the table.
That’s the basis of a negotiation, right?
In addition, its conditions change with the wind: data, reform…
At least the news provides François Legault with political ammunition.
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When it’s bad
These days, everything Ottawa touches seems to be turning into a disaster.
Forget the Phoenix payroll system and the passport fiasco.
This week alone, we learned that according to a CBC News investigation, Immigration has assigned about 60,000 immigration files to inactive employees.
Add to this the endless delays in processing asylum seekers’ files at Roxham Road.
On housing, the CMHC refuses to say where the billions of dollars in public funding for affordable housing has gone, according to our investigative agency.
In the Canadian Armed Forces, former Judge Louise Arbor said there is a lot of resistance to changing the toxic culture.
We learned last week that we bought millions of surplus vaccines, some of which have expired.
Canada’s Internal Revenue Service has left the most vulnerable to fend for themselves, says Canada’s Taxpayer Ombudsman.
The government may also have overpaid $27 billion in emergency aid during the pandemic, according to the Auditor General.
Incidentally, the provinces are asking for $28 billion in health transfers to cover the rising costs.
At least one point
Where Justin Trudeau is right: Taxpayers don’t care about jurisdictions when they’re in the ER at 7 p.m. or waiting a year for surgery.
Above all, we want the different governments to come together and start providing basic services.
Putting more money into the healthcare system without making sweeping changes isn’t going to work.
Provinces must commit to delivering results.
Not to please Justin Trudeau, but for the common good.
