It looks more and more like this election is becoming a two horse race.
The NDP seem to be fading as fast as the fall leaves after a frost.
The Mulcair crew is losing its Quebec support. He has been caught up in trust issues.
He has a hard time remembering whether he was at the big Place du Canada no rally before the last referendum. He seems to have been at home and at the rally at the same time.
Former cabinet colleagues are calling him out on the real reason he left the provincial Liberal cabinet over the Mount Orford controversy.
Then there is Mulcair’s insistence that women should be allowed to cover their faces during citizenship ceremonies.
None of this is playing well in Quebec.
It now seems much of the momentum is in the Liberal sails.
Justin Trudeau had a leadership moment this week during the debate in Toronto.
Mulcair had gone on the attack over Pierre Trudeau’s invocation of the War Measures Act during the October Crisis in 1970
“Both of these gentlemen have attacked my father. Let me say clearly I am incredibly proud to be Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s son,” said Justin.
And then this:
“It’s quite emotional for me to talk about him because it was 15 years ago tonight that he passed away. September 28 2000.”
In politics, timing is everything. And cheap politics is just that.
No one above the law
It was heartening the see this week that no one is above the law.
Lise Thibault, who made off with a bundle of your money, was sentenced to a year and a half in jail.
The former Lieutenant Governor at one point had even tried to have her case dismissed on the grounds that she enjoyed immunity from prosecution: the Queen can do no wrong.
Well, her subjects found she did plenty wrong charging taxpayers for just about everything she did in life, from golf to skiing lessons to birthday parties.
The sentence was a fair one.
It was somewhat disconcerting though to see officers of Quebec justice slap handcuffs on the 76-year-old wheelchair-bound Thibault. She’s not exactly a flight risk.
The one-time representative of the Queen wears a heavy crown indeed.
Doesn’t the OQLF have something useful to do?
Call it the Great Cupcake Crackdown.
The sin of a Montreal West couple was to write a little too much English on their chalkboard sign in their bakery.
The language cops were upset that the sign advertising ice cream was not written with letters twice the size in French.
The owners of the bakery will comply to because it’s easier than to fight the bullies.
“It’s a useless organization. It’s fearmongering and its bullying as well,” said Emmanuelle Chassé.
Harassing small business, threatening fines, the OQLF is an embarrassment.
It should be put out of its misery.
Your tax money is going for this at a time when we can’t pay teachers or nurses.
Quebec: where size still matters to the insecure.
