If Québec solidaire hadn’t had the constant complacency of Radio-Canada and much of the university community over the years, it would never have left the political fringes.

But he was well seen in these circles.

Françoise David, the founding figure of QS, seemed to embody gentleness and empathy. This allowed QS to fit into our political life and play the role of moral conscience.

In doing so, it was forgotten that this party also represented some questionable ideas, which were supported by extremist tendencies. Its militant base consisted essentially of militants associated with the radical left.

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complacency

And yet QS belongs to the landscape, is rooted in the circles of the left petty bourgeoisie. He was now gathering the voices of the worldly.

We are more likely to meet solidary voters in a gathering of fundamentalist vegans or multiculturalists content with Islamism than at the exit of a factory.

After the departure of Françoise David, QS has again given itself a new orientation, the function of which is to examine the ideological nutcases that converge there.

Manon Massé played this role yesterday and now it is Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois who is to embody the professionalization of the party.

The fact remains that QS maintains a neo-socialist economic program. Yesterday it exploded in the face of the party.

This program responds to an old slogan: make the rich pay! This is the left’s favorite demagogic slogan. Spontaneously everyone agrees: Everyone imagines that the rich man is the other man!

Aside from just getting it, the rich for QS are a lot more numerous than we think.

QS does not target the famous 1% we spoke of a few years ago, nor the transnational bourgeoisie that has built its wealth thanks to the excesses of globalization.

QS is now targeting small and medium-sized businesses and wants to subject them to new tax pressure. It intends to overtax it, overtax it – and at this level of taxation and imposition, one could say that it intends to deprive it.

It is she who will bear the weight of the orange taxes to use François Legault’s excellent formula.

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surcharge

I won’t go into the details of what QS offers, but I will remind you of its spirit, its philosophy. The basic rule is: Anyone who has worked hard, managed their assets well, saved, invested correctly in order to secure their future and pass it on to their children is in the crosshairs. You are rich, you have to pay.

For QS, what belongs to you does not really belong to you. You’re always a bit of a profiteer. We’ll take it off your hands, in the name of social justice. If you protest, you will be accused of selfishness.

After all, taxes do not primarily serve to finance public services, but to create an equality that is never far from a race to the bottom and feeds on the poison of resentment.