recent interview, Lucien Bouchard allowed a criticism of Quebec should work harder to free the province of the state deplorable its finances. But it does then no mention of the fiscal imbalance. No mention either the trend of politicians for wasting public funds, the same for which the ultimate solution is to extract ever more workers already overtaxed. Just think of driving licenses that must be paid every year from now or the successive increases in electricity rates. So it's a reality that we present truncated when Bouchard draws its economic portrait of modern Quebec, a reality of the truncated core of the problem.
I do not think Quebec they need a former politician to lecture them, what they want is a strong state that will address quickly and effectively to the challenges of the new millennium. Unfortunately, this is not the head up, Jean Charest, who we provide. Assign heritage in private as he provides continually demonstrates his vision necessarily reducing the exercise of power, a big garage sale in a quasi-religious praise of Public Private Partnerships (PPP). The Liberals' mandate seems to be limited to cut services, raise taxes, then sell the acquired remove responsibility by blaming on a so-called "difficult financial framework." A difficult financial framework so that the federal government, it liberates outrageous surplus over ten years through the fiscal imbalance. Other spoils for Stephen Harper because even if solves the problem as it promised to do during the election campaign, there will be no retroactive payments to the provinces will be content with little, again .
Jean Charest may well rejoice at the arrival on stage of Harper as a sign of openness, deign to grant a permanent place in Quebec at UNESCO, within the Team Canada. Paul Martin used the same tactics before him, tender a bone to Charest who brandish like a trophy in honor of asymmetrical federalism. This little game seems to keep Quebec in its place in Canada, subject to a government with unlimited funds, who does not hesitate to interfere in the affairs of provincial governments and a large part of Quebec society considers as paternalistic, intrusive and arrogant.
Mathieu, a dissident among others
