I'm not voting for them. In fact, I don't know anyone IRL who's voting for them, which always seemed curious to me.
Well it's simple - do you mostly know anglos or francos?
No anglo votes PQ. Well, very, VERY few do, but generally, they hate the PQ because they're separatist. If you know know francos, you'll know a shitton of people voting for the PQ.
The biggest reason why I looked away from the PQ long ago is because it's the party that refuses to rattle the right cages. Quebecers hate seeing conflicts in their midst, it is known. For each crisis, they'll hold a summit about the question, which'll take forever, and then they will very lightly apply each proposed solution.
This is true, and this is why I also don't generally like the PQ. It's an old monolithic party that is plagued by so much internal conflict that it's problematic. I'm a Quebec Solidaire kind of guy, and I'm incredibly happy that they're going up and up with every election.
We're slowly heading toward an economic crisis again at this rate, and the only thing PQ seem to have an iron hand with is with french-speaking stuff like Bill 101 at work at extending it to CEGEPs. While I can see this being a good issue to tackle on eventually, the crisis is elsewhere. But they seem to think it's not, and that magical sources of revenues will appear.
This is but ONE part of their program (and I highly doubt it'll happen, because seriously, people won't be happy either). They do have strong programs in place for other parts of the economy...
I mean, I understand Ether_Snake for not wanting HQ to be sold. (Thank you btw for steering back into a less partisan attitude
) But what do you think will have to happen in 10, 20 years when the debt is still growing because nobody wants to tackle the problem directly, always promising more without ever saying how (because they want to win elections! And don't you dare take anything away from any Quebecer!). The government then will gasp for air, for money, because now they'll have less and less but with an ever-growing debt and multiple social services to fund. At that point, HQ is guaranteed to be sold, to buy us 4-5 more years of fake respite.
See, that's the thing. Who gives a flying rat's ass about the debt? Anyone who sells HQ is looking at complete political suicide.
I choose to think, in good faith, that Legault will not do it. I believe he is inspiring himself from Garcia and other IDEMs members with some of their measures that can still be applied regardless of HQ being private or not ; which, as Snake said, is happening. I do think it's a leap of logic to consider this as being 100 % definitive proof that Legault wants to privatize it. It would be political suicide anyhow and the population wouldn't allow it ; we all saw what they could do with the students strikes, now imagine that tenfold. Ain't happening. And if it does happen, we'd just be earlier than scheduled with the course a PQ government seems to want to set us on anyhow.
I'd consider myself a left-leaning person in regular times. But my life has just now started to really begin. I want the actual problems to be solved now, while they're still manageable, than having to deal with a crockload of shit later on in my life. You just have to lean right at some point. And I don't see how the PQ can do it with its current mentality.
I'm 100% positive Legault will actively go for selling HQ, simply for the fact that he is backed by asshats who just want to own more and more and more (Desmarais, Bouchard, Peladeau, and god knows who else). These absolutely dirty people simply want to be able to buy a piece of the pie from HQ. They think of one thing: money.
I understand that your life has just started, really. Regardless of who is in power, you'll have to deal with a crockload of shit later on in your life. In fact, I'd wager that if we had a CAQ or PLQ government, you'd probably deal with much more shit than if, say, QS or even the PQ was in power. Why? Social programs are incredibly good pacifiers, genuinely help people and benefit ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY. You're paying money for social programs so that people can actually have more money to spend into the economy. And this is regardless of people who abuse the system - they do exist, but I personally would much rather have people abusing a system that genuinely helps people than cutting a system and screwing people out of help because some people abuse it.
How do you fix a recession? It's not with the job creators - give them tax cuts and they'll keep the money to themselves. The one good thing to come out of the consumerist society the world has built over time is that if you give more money to the consumer, he'll buy shit (even if he can't really afford it). THIS is what works the economy. It creates more demand. More demand generates more jobs and more services. What the right-leaning people seek to do is hoard the money to themselves, because if more people have access to it, their precious resource lessens in value. Who cares if you're rich in a society where people can live very decently? It doesn't bring anything special.
