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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 




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