The election result, while heartening on one side, does leave me with a large gaping hole in my ear drum.
First, let's discuss the daunting task the Liberals face in fixing Quebec's economy. How deeply rooted are our problems? It's not just a mechanical issue backed up by statistics, but one in which a mindset has to change as well.
Consider that we have a massive $265 billion debt - larger than any province - and in a fiscal cul de sac to the extent we can no longer tax more. If Quebec raises taxes it will enter confiscatory territory. We're taxed enough.
The other problem is the reality of our private sector is stagnant while the public sector continues to expand. Public sector jobs is not job creation. Quebec has - sit down - 525 000 public sector workers for 8 million people! Highest of any region on the continent. Quebec will have no choice but to reduce this as well as come to understand it's spending problem we possess.
The Liberals claim to have a plan to create 250 000 jobs. They only can achieve this figure if they permit the Quebec economy to grow organically in the private sector. One way to do that is to reduce the regulatory demands on businesses that hamper day to day operations. Red tape cost businesses millions of dollars. And for what? To pay the salary of a bureaucrat go over compliance papers with a ruler that has little or no positive impact on, like, anything?
With 70 seats the Liberals have leverage and have even more so with the CAQ having won 22. That's 92 damn ridings that pretty much said 'do what you gotta do for the economy.'
Now is as good as any time to do so.
While we're at it, reign in the OLF. They hurt business. We don't need that shit.
Speaking shit, despite the PQ's collapse, socialism and sovereignty still manages to get some spotlight thanks to the QS and Peladeau.
One can feel happy the Liberals are in power but not too far off lay the lions at the gate threatening to disrupt stability with their nefarious plans rooted in romanticism and gibberish not even Sir Gawain and the Green Knight could match.
Francoise 'Peppermint Patty' David wants an ecological, unilingual socialist, sovereign Quebec paradise. When she's not high on acid and hemp, I'd like to know exactly how she plans to pay for such a state. Marois was pretty much reduced to a laughing stock when she spoke of 'borders and the Bank of Canada' for a simple reason: People pushed back and said 'everything will be negotiated Quebec' and with no leverage, you ain't gonna get what you think. Already the PQ were incapable of conveying a reasonable and feasible explanation of how independence would work (mostly because it can't) imagine this bunch in the QS. They're so shabby, they make the PQ look like catwalk candidates for Armani in Milan.
Above all, think of the mindset of a person like David. She talks as if there's no English rights here. She's worse than Marois on this. Clearly she's not paying attention with her bigotry. We will fight back.
Imagine having to demand someone speak in 'their' language? What kind of ignorance is that in this day and age?
And she leads this paltry party of left-wingers.
Hers is an agenda cemented in old, stale ideas.
The QS got 275 000 votes.
Which is sad because a classical liberal/libertarian candidate would be lucky to get half of that.
First, let's discuss the daunting task the Liberals face in fixing Quebec's economy. How deeply rooted are our problems? It's not just a mechanical issue backed up by statistics, but one in which a mindset has to change as well.
Consider that we have a massive $265 billion debt - larger than any province - and in a fiscal cul de sac to the extent we can no longer tax more. If Quebec raises taxes it will enter confiscatory territory. We're taxed enough.
The other problem is the reality of our private sector is stagnant while the public sector continues to expand. Public sector jobs is not job creation. Quebec has - sit down - 525 000 public sector workers for 8 million people! Highest of any region on the continent. Quebec will have no choice but to reduce this as well as come to understand it's spending problem we possess.
The Liberals claim to have a plan to create 250 000 jobs. They only can achieve this figure if they permit the Quebec economy to grow organically in the private sector. One way to do that is to reduce the regulatory demands on businesses that hamper day to day operations. Red tape cost businesses millions of dollars. And for what? To pay the salary of a bureaucrat go over compliance papers with a ruler that has little or no positive impact on, like, anything?
With 70 seats the Liberals have leverage and have even more so with the CAQ having won 22. That's 92 damn ridings that pretty much said 'do what you gotta do for the economy.'
Now is as good as any time to do so.
While we're at it, reign in the OLF. They hurt business. We don't need that shit.
Speaking shit, despite the PQ's collapse, socialism and sovereignty still manages to get some spotlight thanks to the QS and Peladeau.
One can feel happy the Liberals are in power but not too far off lay the lions at the gate threatening to disrupt stability with their nefarious plans rooted in romanticism and gibberish not even Sir Gawain and the Green Knight could match.
Francoise 'Peppermint Patty' David wants an ecological, unilingual socialist, sovereign Quebec paradise. When she's not high on acid and hemp, I'd like to know exactly how she plans to pay for such a state. Marois was pretty much reduced to a laughing stock when she spoke of 'borders and the Bank of Canada' for a simple reason: People pushed back and said 'everything will be negotiated Quebec' and with no leverage, you ain't gonna get what you think. Already the PQ were incapable of conveying a reasonable and feasible explanation of how independence would work (mostly because it can't) imagine this bunch in the QS. They're so shabby, they make the PQ look like catwalk candidates for Armani in Milan.
Above all, think of the mindset of a person like David. She talks as if there's no English rights here. She's worse than Marois on this. Clearly she's not paying attention with her bigotry. We will fight back.
Imagine having to demand someone speak in 'their' language? What kind of ignorance is that in this day and age?
And she leads this paltry party of left-wingers.
Hers is an agenda cemented in old, stale ideas.
The QS got 275 000 votes.
Which is sad because a classical liberal/libertarian candidate would be lucky to get half of that.
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