Yesterday I rushed to the polls, eager to vote in advance. Because I admit that this campaign, although shorter than so many others in the past, seems to me to be interminable.
This is no doubt due to the state in which the pandemic has plunged us all. During two long years of confinement, lived in a climate where the fear of contracting COVID has significantly altered our human relationships, the Other has become a threat that we had to be wary of. It more or less traumatized us. No more kisses, no more handshakes, no more hugs that we gave to our children and grandchildren, who themselves had become suspicious. “I can’t touch you, grandma,” my four-year-old Rose told me.
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And now the fixed-date election has imposed itself. At a time when anger, rage, mental disturbances, excesses of all kinds occupy the news day following day. Inevitably, an election campaign is a time of clashes, divisions and accusations from party leaders. But this time, we must recognize that what has been going on for three weeks breaks with what we are entitled to expect in Quebec.
The domination of the CAQ is so strong in the polls that one understands why the four other parties, two of which, QS and the PCQ, are radical parties, are desperately seeking to obtain new support in order to play a significant role in the ‘National Assembly.
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The first televised debate was revealing of the degree of aggressiveness, aggressiveness, lack of respect, verbal excess that exists in today’s political contests. It was a distressing evening for Quebec and exhausting for citizens eager to assess the candidates and their program. We all came out losers in this debate.
The political leaders were themselves shaken and no doubt very ill at ease to have engaged in such a spectacle. The debate at Radio-Canada took place, thank God, according to the rules of civility and courtesy.
But the damage has been done and the sweeping declarations of each other accusing each other of being shabby, liars and deceivers have contributed to devaluing the political institution itself.
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If we thought that the televised debates were over, we were wrong. The party leaders, eager to reach voters, all agreed to meet for the high mass of TLMEP and confide in Guy A. Lepage, the undisputed and eminently talented king of entertainment television.
Lepage pulled off the smoking gun of interrogating them according to his own requirements, adding the presence of the cowboy MC Gilles. This one treated the five chiefs from the top of his superb.
Some fellow non-political journalists have even noted that the politicians were relaxed, funny and altogether happy to submit to the always trapped questions of the host and his acolyte.
It is therefore in an entertaining spectacle that the five leaders ended their fight. With smiles, that of François Legault almost permanent, laughter and antics of which only Guy A. Lepage came out a winner with, as a bonus, the last word.
Like what, politics quickly leads to show-business. Appalling!
