Skip to main content

Quebec Elections; To vote or not to vote

The elections taking place in less than 30 days are not very exciting.  The party that is leading the show is called the CAQ a nationalist somewhat corporatist government that has been in power for four years.  The opposition is not very exciting, the Liberals, the Parti Quebecois, Quebec Solidaire and the Conservative Party each share about 15% of the electorate's support while the CAQ is sitting around 45%.  In terms of probably seats the CAQ is looking at anywhere between 80 and 107 (they need 67) and the liberals between 15 and 25, the rest each get between zero and four seats, because how their votes are distributed. 

Quebec's prime minister has been a good steward of the economy during the COVID and has met the crisis head-on taking full responsibility.  In the current fiscal year, the Quebec Government has a small budget surplus.  It has aggressively protected the rights of French speakers in a province surrounded by more than 300 million English speakers.  He has passed draconian laws which give the "language police" almost unlimited rights to search offices.  Quebecers would be appalled if the ordinary police had these rights of search and seizure without even a court order.

The Liberals, the official opposition,  have been less than good, with a number of "own goals" in a situation where the opposition doesn't get a lot of airtime.  Instead of aggressively attacking the more anti-democratic aspects of the new language law, it got caught in a debate about teaching French that it could neither execute or win.  So uninspiring has been their leadership that the Liberals have failed to even find candidates for all the seats.  The party has to figure out who they are and what they want to represent.  For that to occur, they have to lose really badly.

Personally, I cannot support the CAQ, the damage to are causing to the economy is incalculable.  It will take several years to become obvious, but the damage is there nevertheless.  Last week Tesla was in town to potentially build a new car plant.  What do you think was the topic of conversation; everything has to be done in French, and language police can seize your computers and data without due process.  Every communication has to be in French.  A none starter for Tesla, that had issues with Californian restrictions.

All the ideas behind the PQ have already been stolen by the CAQ, it really has no reason to exist.  Quebec Solidaire are a bunch of left-wing maybe greens whose good ideas have also already been stolen by the CAQ, as for the Conservatives, the less said about these right-wing crazies the better, one can hope that this party will be one and done...  Overall all the opposition parties failed Quebecers because of the rights of the language police that have been enshrined in the new language law. 

I  will not vote for the CAQ, PQ or QS or Conservatives and want the Liberals to lose badly:  One choice is not to vote this time around 




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

what people get wrong about tariffs

 The issue is simple. What percentage of the economy is dependent on tariff goods? The truth, is that the US economy is far more closed than people understand. People genuinely believe that all manufacturing has ceased to exist in the United States all given to China on the altar of woke policy the truth can be further from That statement. Only about 15% of US GDP is related to foreign trade. Of that amount, slightly more than half is from Canada in Mexico. And half of that is energy. What that means, is that about 7% of US GDP is tariff dependent. The proof in the pudding, is how little money tariff generates. People think that 30 or 50 billion is a lot it’s not in an economy that has $3 trillion. The impact on the US economy will be less visible but not absent. Inflation hasn’t occurred yet first because tests have hardly started to bite, but more importantly it’s such a small percent of the economy. Now certain things are critical. The rare earth metals from China were critical....
Post a Comment
Read more

The end of Tesla?

 it takes a special kind of idiot, to think that he can antagonize his entire customer base, and think that it will not impact his business. When Elon Musk went to work for Donald Trump, and created the doge department, he antagonized every liberal, and these people represent 90% of his client base.That’s not a brilliant move. Now Elon Musk is worth hundreds of billions of dollar, so he shouldn’t care a great deal, however, he needs to care because of several other issues. The cyber truck has been a disaster, most have had to be recalled because of defective glue, it’s not a truck, it’s not a car, it’s noisy, relatively uncomfortable, but great as a development platform. What Tesla has learned in making car manufacturing more seamless is truly amazing. The problem was that Elon Musk was so pissed with the Democrats, and with Joe Biden, in particular because of some slight, which were just plain stupid too. By the way, that he decided to support with hundreds of millions of dollar, ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Demographics

 I am preparing a kind of family tree for our children so that they know where they came from.  In my family I am the only survivor, although my brother and sister died recently they were both in their seventies (a story I told already).    It was a fun process, but it provided more than that.  First, I married relatively young I was 26 when I married and nearly 30 when our first child was born.   I was looking at my ancestors.  On my mother's side, she had 6 siblings, Four died before the age of 30, two in war, and two from illnesses.  Only she and a single sister survived.   The two boys had a child each but they died in WWII, and the other sister died as an infant.   what is interesting is that every one of my mother's siblings had children in their early 20s.   I know that my mom was hardly 20 when my brother was born.    What is remarkable is that among our friends, we are the only ones to have fou...
Post a Comment
Read more