What a remarkably busy couple of weeks it has been for Jean Charest's government. In rapid succession various units of the Quebec government have rolled out:
A contract offer to 475,000 public-sector employees, a full month before the proposal was required or expected;
A plan to impose new constraints on marginally-drunk driving;
A new committee to study euthanasia;
An awareness campaign to get cyclists to wear helmets;
A surprise new scheme to redraw the electoral map; and
"Ambitious," though meaningless, Quebec targets for greenhouse gas emissions.
These proposals touch on diverse aspects of life (and death), and have varying degrees of common sense. What they have in common is that they are "water-cooler issues" - not recondite amendments to the corporate income tax act or complicated regulations about technical standards.
So the government, it seems, wants to get Quebecers talking about any of those issues, or perhaps all of them. And right now.
Could it be, do you think, that these are all really just red herrings, scattered around in an effort to get us all to forget that municipal tendering and contracting in this province stink to high heaven and that the government has resolutely stonewalled against the inquiry which is so obviously needed and has been so universally demanded?
It won't work, premier. Read the polls. Quebecers are demanding a full inquiry.
Charest serves us a feast of red herrings
It won't work, premier. Read the polls. Quebecers are demanding a full inquiry.
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