Les cerveaux reptiliens des éditeurs de la Gâzette ne manquent jamais leur chance d'exhiber leur mépris, leur hostilité au projet d'indépendance nationale du Québec. Certains lancent des souliers, d'autres suggèrent de la boue au visage... Cette photo ne parle pas de Parizeau mais de leur petitesse! Esthétisme polluant. Du machiavélisme sans classe! - Vigile
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MONTREAL - Who do these whippersnappers think they are, telling Monsieur to butt out?
They didn’t exactly put it that way, but that was the essential message of an open letter to Jacques Parizeau that ran in Le Devoir on the weekend. It was signed by a dozen Péquistes advertising themselves as the “collective of young Parti Québécois MNAs” and was headlined “Monsieur Parizeau, have faith in us.”
They complained that while they are the new generation of sovereignist MNAs, they get scant public recognition because the media devote so much attention to the sovereignty movement’s old standard-bearers for commentary on contemporary political developments. They didn’t mention Parizeau directly in this respect, and the tone of the missive was deferential to the old man (he turns 81 this summer) throughout. But there was no doubt they were referring to Parizeau, who does indeed get generous media attention on the sporadic occasions when he feels the PQ isn’t knuckling down hard enough to push for independence – something he’s felt a need to do with greater frequency since Pauline Marois assumed the party leadership. Just lately he made headlines by knocking Marois’s “soft focus” on independence.
But if the media perk up when Jacques Parizeau speaks, it is with good reason. He is, after all, a one-time premier, a towering figure of Quebec, indeed of Canadian, politics in his time, and the grand old man of the sovereignty movement. He has not only talked the talk, he has walked the walk, calling a referendum within a year of taking office and nearly winning it.
If the letter’s signatories don’t get the attention Parizeau commands, it is because in terms of achievement they are comparative pipsqueaks barely worthy to test his microphone on the occasions he deigns to speak publicly. As for being a “young” collective, only three of the dozen are under 30 and thus would actually qualify for membership in the PQ youth wing; four of them are 40 or over and should more accurately call themselves middle-aged. (But then, in the greying ranks of the sovereignty movement, one supposes 40 now counts as young.)
They claim to be sovereignists with more contemporary preoccupations than those of Parizeau’s generation, more focused on things like energy self-sufficiency, environmental protection, public transit and climate change. But they don’t seem to have considered that none of these actually requires Quebec to separate from in order to be dealt with in a progressive manner, and that in this respect having Canadian allies in the enterprise would be helpful.
What they don’t come right out and say is that Parizeau’s periodic intercession does more to poison the atmosphere within the PQ, as opposed to making new sovereignist converts or reviving the ardour of the increasing number of Quebecers whose sovereignist faith has lapsed.
As such, federalists in particular should rejoice that it is not in Monsieur’s nature to heed calls to stifle himself – certainly not from a bunch of striplings like this.