For more than a week, Quebecers have enjoyed watching Paul St-Pierre Plamondon challenge our political class by demanding the right to sit in the National Assembly without taking the oath of Charles III.

PSPP plays its cards well and arouses sympathy. It exposes the part of the absurdity at the heart of our institutions: a Quebec MP elected by his constituents cannot join the other MPs because he refuses to pledge allegiance to a foreign sovereign.

But the PSPP cannot engage in this dispute without turning against it.

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Ordinary mortals will sooner or later want to leave the domain of symbols to talk about something else, in a turbulent time when we will need enlightened politicians. Does he have a plan B?

Let me add the gist: it is an amusing thing to denounce the remnants of the British monarchy in our institutions, it is quite another to confront head-on the power structures that today require the full affirmation of Quebec’s identity, the fierce defense of our, also hinder interests.

The true sovereign of Canada is not based in London today, but in Ottawa.

I speak first of the Supreme Court, which claims to interpret a sacred, almost-revealed text, the Constitution of Canada, and the pseudo-Bill of Rights that goes with it.

In Canada, elected governments are subject to judges, particularly Supreme Court justices, who consider themselves the great sages of our political system, while often behaving like militant ideologues. They are the ones who have a kind of monarchical power in Canada today. It is their legitimacy that must be questioned.

The true sovereign also takes on the figure of Canadian radio-style media power. It is the clergy of our time that decides good and evil and can sentence those who disagree to ostracism or social death, especially when we touch the dogmas of multiculturalism, mass immigration and gender ideology.

The real sovereign, after all, simply takes on the face of the federal government. The provinces can’t do much against him if he decides to impose his decisions on them, as we can see with the Roxham Road affair. Ottawa forces a steady stream of illegal immigrants upon Quebec, which it then has to absorb without being able to do anything about it. Ottawa decides federal transfers more broadly, forcing us to act within the leeway it allows us. It treats the provinces as smaller municipalities.

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Today, separatists and nationalists are being called less to confront the British Crown and more openly to struggle against true Canadian power.

We must refuse to kneel before the Supreme Court and stop shaping our laws to its parameters, we must stop bowing to Radio-Canada’s moral directives, and we must exercise the powers Ottawa has confiscated.

The fight will then no longer be political folklore. It will be much more robust.