The next few months will be make it or break it for Parti Quebecor leader Pierre Karl Peladeau.

So far he has shown that he really doesn't have the right stuff for politics, and Quebecers know it.

The PKP PQ is well behind the Liberals in the latest poll this week. 

Leger put the Liberals at 36 percent and the PQ at 29 percent.

At a mid-term mark, opposition parties should generally be leading or close to it, particularly since governments tend to do their unpopular and messy stuff in the first couple of years.

However the pequiste support continues to slide.

So this week Peladeau was back to his favourite topic, dreaming the impossible dream of leading Quebec to the Promised Land. Our very own Man of La Mancha, our knight of Independence.

PKP announced he was personally paying for a headhunter to run his Institute of Higher Sovereignty and basket weaving. 

There is something quite wrong about rich guys and politics... look at Trump or Berlusconi .

PKP says his think tank will be independent. Right...

Best line, though, goes to the premier on sovereignty math.

“One plus one equals two not eight,” Couillard quipped Thursday.

I don't think this refocusing on separation will save PKP.

The apparatchiks in the party are starting to get restless.

In the meantime our media baron is just whistling past the graveyard.

Legislating life after death

Speaking of graveyards, your Quebec government is planning to overhaul the funeral industry with all sorts new rules to die for.

In the true nanny state tradition of all Quebec governments regardless of stripe, the proposed legislation wants to regulate what you do with your loved ones’ ashes.

The cemeteries and the bishops are reportedly lobbying to allow you just two choices: burial in a graveyard or storage in columbarium.

The bill says remains should not be scattered where they would be considered a nuisance.

Let me decide what is a nuisance, thank you.

Obviously the neighbour’s lawn would be out, but a favourite lake or special place should be allowed.

This is one area the government should stick its nose out of.

We all know about death and taxes, but in at least one of them, would it be too much for the nanny to let us have our say?

Privilege and entitlement

It is galling to see the triumph of privilege and entitlement when so many have so little. 

Two cases of that this week, one from an institution of higher learning which should be an example and should know better.

Concordia University has paid $235,000 in severance to an executive, Sonia Trudel, after she worked at the school for three months.

Not three years, not thirty years, three months.

Concordia won't say why she left or why Concordia, like other universities, has to slash and burn when students often pay the price. It's wrong when a quarter million dollars goes out the window to someone who was just there for a cup of coffee.

Case two. The former mayor of Montreal North who is up on sexual assault charges and resigned in disgrace.

Gilles Deguire will receive almost $150,000 in departure bonuses.

He quit. We pay.

Yes he is presumed innocent.

But once again, for too many of our entitled elite, there are different rules. and they laugh all the way to the bank.

Right in our faces