On a des élections molles!

Probably like all of you, I went to vote yesterday with the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of a guy who is getting ready to rake the fallen leaves on his property or set up his double glazing for the winter.

Because you have to.

As for the results, they are as important to me as the score at the petanque tournament in Le Fion, in Haute-Savoie.

What won?

Ah, okay.

Can you pass me the salt?

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As social media becomes more like open sewers, powerful people are less and less willing to run for office.

Who wants to be insulted from morning to night by idiots who think the world stops at their fence and that expanding their barn is a matter of national interest?

The result: Most of the time we meet with candidates the size of Tom Thumb's shoe.

When they're not fellow travelers from hell, they're conspiracy theorists who posted on Instagram that Hitler was misunderstood or that vaccines cause yellow fever.

Even the election campaign of such an experienced politician as Sam Hamad took place against the backdrop of circus music.

Okay, I'm exaggerating a little, but you know what I mean.

Gone are the days when municipal elections made us nervous.

It feels like we're back in the days when we had to vote for school commissioners.

Zzzzzzzzzz…

Wake me up when the polls close.

We're going to pay!

The problem is that we know the outcome in advance.

Municipal taxes will rise no matter which party comes to power.

What you want is math.

Cities face increasingly complex problems: homelessness, drug addiction, crime.

They need more and more money to solve these problems.

And they have only one way to replenish their coffers: raise taxes.

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If Machin wins, we'll pay.

And if Patente wins, we lose.

Add to that the astronomical cost of road work ($1 million to replace a traffic light at an intersection), and you have a taxpayer who has been shortchanged.

Much has been said about the hurricane that hit Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

But what can we say about the social hurricane that has been hitting North American cities for many years? San Francisco, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec?

It has gotten to the point where even Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Joliette, Drummondville, Granby and Saint-Hyacinthe no longer know what to do to help their homeless and drug addicts!

Poverty, which once only affected big cities, is now spreading and inundating regions.

It's the same story everywhere.

Shelters and supervised injection centers must remain open.

But residents say: “Not in my yard!”

Tsunami

It's no surprise that voters are less interested in municipal elections than before.

What can cities do in the face of a tsunami hitting them?

It is difficult for them to clear the streets of snow and collect garbage!

Cities are drowning.

To governments that throw buoys that are too small at them.