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The Official Couillard Liberals Scandal/Outrage Thread
April 23, 2014 - 7:31pm
Starting with today's "bend over and get ready for cuts" inaugural speech, this thread will serve as an ongoing chronicle of the many sins of the Couillard Liberal government.
This is going to be a very loooong thread.
We need some popcorn!
Also, a sturdy umbrella, or Tempo Shelter, for the moment when LA MARDE hits the fan...
see new Cabinet list:
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/politique-quebecoise/201404/...
and a factoid worth noting:
On attendait Hélène David, une vice-rectrice de l'Université de Montréal, à l'Éducation, mais elle est finalement à la tête de la Culture et des Communications. Comme secrétaire de la province dans les cabinets Gouin et Taschereau, son grand-père, Athanase David, avait joué le rôle de ministre de la Culture avant que ce poste ne soit créé officiellement et il avait écrit une politique culturelle - un prix littéraire porte son nom. M. Couillard lui a également confié le mandat de ministre responsable « de la Protection et de la Promotion de la langue française ». Elle est la soeur de Françoise David, de Québec solidaire.
On the cabinet outrage parade, let's start with Sam Hamad, former VP of Roche and famous ignorer of the Duchesneau report, as transport minister -- a back-to-business-as-usual signal to the mob if ever there were one.
And as those Liberals in the construction industry could tell you, the best "re-engineering" is done by way of demolition.
Spending cuts will lead way to balanced budget, Leitão saysQuestion is,with Montréal already swimming with a poverty problem and a homelesss epidemic ,how severe will social unrest become and will we see a sharp spike in crime?
The poor are going to really get the brunt of this.
I miss Charest.
Seems to me like an election campaign would've been a great time to do that, but I guess Couillard is a firm believer in the Kim Campbell school of governance.
For those of you who use Twitter, I suggest a new hashtag for when something deeply affecting you gets eliminated or slashed to the bone: #NotACriticalService.
Cabinet's already frozen public-sector hiring, and a wage freeze is coming. Is everybody happy we saved the province from an imaginary referendum yet?
And while we're at it: I know the #1 tool in every newly elected government's toolbox is to claim the previous government lied about finances, so you'll have to break all of your promises. But does it seem a little suspicious to anyone else that Couillard is claiming one PQ budget singlehandedly wrecked the finely balanced books that Charest left behind, thereby justifying bleeding the civil service white?
He didn't make his agenda clear during the election campaign because he knew he wouldn't have won the election..or at least get a majority.
He's a fuckin' weasel...Come to think of it,he actually looks like a ferret.
This Barry Wilson guy is a real treat.
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/postscript-welcome-to-the-return-of-sanity-in...
What exactly does this man think are 'entitlements'?
Nevermind,I know what he's refering to.
"TRIBAL" nationalism? Racist prick (against both francophones and Indigenous peoples).
I sent the following comment, but doubt it will be printed, although I specifically did not call Mr Wilson a racist or redneck.
Note that the website says that racist comments will not be printed. I guess that doesn't include those of their staff. Someone should complain about "tribal nationalism" on the basis of the policy stated at their site.
Perhaps here? newsonline@ctv.ca
Barry Wilson has a week's wrapup on CTV every Friday at 6.30, usually awful....
Goddamn right. Now let's all get out there and make sure Couillard knows this shit isn't socially acceptable.
These damn poor people and their entitlements.
What happens to the mentally ill,people who cannot work because they are unemployable via mental or physical health?
It's going to be a joy walking in the city passed people no longer on their meds without any money.
I guess it's 'socially acceptable' to rape and pillage those who have nothing to begin with.
Let me correct myself. Those with nothing but 'entitlements'
One down, 70 to go. Too bad he'll likely never spend a day in jail.
I'm rooting for Julie Boulet. Even though they're cut her loose, can you imagine how many she can pull down with her? All she needs is something to shall we say encourage her memory to start working again.
Are you ready for the summer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnx68ZxUZzg
and the poor will get the real belt beating...he said 'no one will be spared'..no one but his criminal friends.
in case you missed it,the whole thing was a spectacle with his minions shaking their heads in agreement and applauding every sentence that came out of his mouth like a pack of monkeys.
Am I wrong to think Couillard is the most right wing Premier since Bouchard?...In fact he's looking even further (Tea Bag country)
And to think I feared Legault
Fucking Couillard never had to tighten his belt - I'm sure he eats in the finest restaurants every night, or has a trained chef at home.
I want people to learn as many languages as they can, but the idea that "everyone" should learn English is absurd.
The Gazette continues hammering home the Liberal message: "It’s going to hurt in the short term but will be worth it in the end." (Note how we never actually get to that "long term".) Québec is "open for business again" and ready for a "long crossing of the desert" of pain.
Don't worry, though. Couillard thinks the word "austerity" is too negative, so he won't use it. The policies will remain unchanged.
It's easy for those with money to dismiss austerity as 'short term pain'
The Gazette and CTV Montreal are the PLQ's biggest cheerleaders...I wonder if that 'long crossing of the desert' would be worth the pain if the government increased tax on the weathiest and closed all tax loopholes.
That's the alternative but it's much easier to kick someone in the teeth while they're down.
'Courage'....Yeah,the courage to fuck the poor and the ill.
ETA: This is why I hate the English media.
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/postscript-maxime-bernier-s-common-sense-for-...
Couillard is the offspring of the PQ's neoliberal betrayal. Québec needs a Quiet Revolution, only maybe not so quiet this time.
Which reminds me, look who's speaking at the International Economic Forum of the Americas June 9-12 in Montréal... Time for some street entertainment, hmmm?
À qui la rue? À nous la rue!
Trouble is the mere act of assembly is now illegal.
Protest and descent will now cost you over $300....I'm sure the riot police will be ready.
$637 actually.
Feeling the heat, there?
It's all about the mythical middle class
Trudeau and Couillard had a meeting of the 'minds' today coming up with 'good ideas' to help the middle class.
All on the shoulders of the poor.
Trudeau "represents" one of the poorest ridings in Canada. The people in Park Extension, mostly recent immigrants, work in the harshest jobs. The slight gentrification aka increased housing costs in Villeray should not negate its working-class, francophone, Italian, Lebanese and Portuguese roots or the more recent newcomers.
I'm so sick of the shit about the middle class, when even many educated workers (including myself) are reduced to precarity. I lived in his riding for years, and it is by chance that I'm a couple of blocks south of there, in Boulerice's riding...
Funny that cutting tax loopholes,collecting corporate taxes and increasing tax on the wealthiest is not an option.
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.1844003