How did your elections go?
In Montreal, where I live (yes, everyone has their own cross), we made an unpleasant right turn.
Even though in Montreal, running red lights is prohibited.
Do you think you've seen it all with Trump?
Wait 'til you see Soraya!
She's going to force Donald to impersonate Manon Masse!
“Economic elites”!
In any case, this is what Luc Rabouin from Projet Montréal suggested.
“I'm worried about the right turn,” said runner-up Valerie Plante. PressSATURDAY. When you go to vote, ask yourself what kind of city you want to have. Do you want Montreal to look forward, or are you willing to risk them going backwards?”
I wanted to tell him: “Move forward, go back… I just want the city to move. Unfortunately, Projet Montréal has completely paralyzed it in orange cones, frosty fences and construction sites. If Montreal goes backwards, well, that will already be the case. At least that means we can move.”
I'm going back to the interview Press.
According to Luc Rabouin, Soraya Martinez Ferrada first of all wants to “serve the economic elite. Change should not be a turn to the right.”
Serve the economic elite?
My God, the head of Ensemble Montréal wants to team up with Musk and Bezos?
Take out the chainsaw?
Drive the Chinese out of Chinatown, the Italians out of Little Italy, and the French out of the Plateau?
Sipping champagne in Davos with champions of global neoliberalism?
No.
She just wants to help the city's merchants breathe a little.
For Rabouin and his gang, talking to a convenience store owner or a shoe salesman on Rue Sainte-Catherine is like “turning right.”
It is clear that we no longer have the right that we had.
It must be said that for the Montreal left, everything related to money is demonic.
After this, the left, be it municipal, provincial or federal, wonders why their ratings are falling…
Yes.
Keep lecturing people and screaming about fascism every time someone says maybe we should bring motorists back to the city centre, you're fine with that!
In the clouds
On Facebook, Luc Rabouin's team boasted the support of prominent Montrealers.
Gabrielle Nadeau-Dubois, Anaïs Beard-Lavalette, Safiya Nolin, Nima Mashouf.
All artists and activists who vote for QS.
The party, which, let us recall, intends to vote at the level of 6%.
This is a victory, friends!
And with such support, Luc Rabouin still lost?
Amazing!
It must be the fault of the far right!
“Quebecers suffer from a glaring lack of financial literacy,” economic commentator Francis Gosselin told me the other day at QUB.
Like good Quebecers: they don't understand much about economics.
When a municipality is in agony, it needs money.
However, who do you think pays the most municipal taxes to the city treasury?
Business!
However, for Luc Rabouin, helping business means entering into an agreement with the “economic elite.”
Will Montreal finally be able to climb out of the hole thanks to Soraya?
I don't know.
But at least we'll leave the clouds of the Montreal Project and return to earth.
