The CAQ has just had another “terrible” week in power: transportation management issues; incredible flip flop at immigration.

For the Liberals rallied General Council in Victoriaville Today it will act as a pick-me-up. The Caquiste giant’s armor breaks. The cracks aren’t anything major so far, but it’s better than nothing.

A former Charest-era minister once wrote me in an email: “The CAQ is not eternal.” […] the wear and tear of power [viendra]. It will end one day. At that point, “the PLQ will be there.” […] win back its constituents with a leader who lives up to the expectations of the moment. »

identity crisis

A new manager can change many things. But for the PLQ to benefit from the game of change, this poster boy must embody an extremely strong vision.

Enough to overcome the unusual identity crisis this party is going through. To understand this, one must read Jérôme Turcotte’s text published in The press of yesterday.

Former President of the PLQ Political Commission (2014-2016) and former Political Director of Anglade explains why he says “Goodbye PLQ”. “Political orphan” is now his label.

In his eyes, today’s QLP is permeated by a “Canadianizing” current that accepts the Dominion as it is. Defenders of minorities, the PLQ seem to have “lost sight” that Quebec belongs to them and that their differences contribute to “cultural diversity on a global scale”.

The PLQ is no longer capable of proposing a “renewed federalism”, as it did in the days of Ryan or Bourassa. By seeing himself as a strict “vehicle to contain the looming referendum,” he has forgotten the mistakes he has so often accused the country of.

“Heir to a Colonial History, Canadian Federalism […] has thus made Quebec’s national reality invisible and centralized more and more powers,” writes Turcotte, quite rightly.

branch

The latter insists: “To confront the narrow, adequate and paternalistic government of the CAQ, Quebec needs everything but a provincial branch of the PLC or a weakened version of the Equality Party”.

He’s right to be worried. Nearly a dozen of its currently elected officers have close ties to the Liberal Party of Canada. Désirée McGraw (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce) has publicly announced that she has withdrawn her PLC card.

The co-chair of the PLQ revitalization committee, Madwa-Nika Cadet, was in the office of Federal Minister F.-P. Sparkling wine.

The President of the PLQ’s Youth Commission, Laurence Lefebvre, is also a member of the Recovery Committee and is currently an advisor to Sean Fraser, Justin Trudeau’s Immigration Secretary.

During an interview with the Journal, she admitted to having a conflict of interest when the PLQ or the young people of the PLQ spoke out on immigration issues. She cannot criticize the minister she works for!

This PLQ-PLC merge is a return to an era before Georges-Émile Lapalme. For this party, which has been the “backbone of our political history” (to quote Turcotte), this does not bode well for the elections.