Is this just a taste of the CAQ?
No matter how you look at it, the next few months at the CAQ are bound to be difficult.
A dissatisfaction is spreading that is not ready to take off.
The CAQ has known nothing but victory since 2018, nothing but victory. Quebec, the state, the government, it was them.
Apart from François Legault – and perhaps Bernard Drainville – no one has experienced the limping path of political defeat at the CAQ.
Now the weather is getting a bit cloudy.
CAQ members who are not ministers are already complaining privately. You watch ministers making mistakes one after another and ask yourself, “Why him but not me?” They now understand that it will not be their turn, 89 MPs.
Some may even be tempted to simply abandon ship. Rumors are already circulating.
Internal management challenge to avoid a Joëlle Boutin, number two.
CAQ weakened
“It really pains me,” the prime minister said in response to the poll published here.
However, no hand of providence will free the Prime Minister from his kneeling.
On the contrary: everyone will try to take advantage of the king when he is in trouble.
The public sector unions, which will soon go on strike, are seeing their balance of power improving.
I understand them: How can the Prime Minister, on the one hand, say that Quebecers “suffer from inflation” and not even offer inflation-adjusted salaries to government employees?
Do you think the mayors of Quebec’s south coast will not take the opportunity to argue for a return of the third link? And Bruno Marchand for the tram? And mayors across Quebec on funding public transportation?
And in the event of a “no” vote, the Legault government will become a punching bag.
Worse, an economic recession is likely.
That means making decisions that the CAQ has never had to do before.
So first of all, the weather forecast for the coming months on the CAQ firmament: gray and rainy weather, an atmospheric low pressure area has formed in Jean-Talon and is spreading across the whole of Quebec.
Bring a hat and fasten it with a brooch.
