A nasty little spat broke out in Quebec City this week over money and entitlements.
The so called "injured party" is Quebec vedette and uber TV producer Julie Snyder, the mother of PKP's children and soon to be his wife.
The Liberal government changed the rules on tax credits for TV productions which are designed to help independent producers.
That means Snyder's Productions J no longer qualifies because most of her work goes to TVA which is owned by her fiancé.
She, by the way, produces La Voix, which is a huge success in Quebec… but I'm not sure all those English songs would please her partner since he doesn't seem to like les tounes en anglais.
Snyder told Le Devoir that the Liberals want to ruin her for political motives and that she has a right to earn a living.
She calls it a vendetta.
Really?
All the Liberals are doing is going back to the way things were before 2014.
You see, then-premier Pauline Marois changed the rules five days before the election to give Snyder's company the tax break. It was a little pre-election favour for a friend.
Yes Snyder does have a right to make a living, which she did quite well before getting the taxpayer’s handouts.
She is right that she must compete on a level playing field with everyone else.
She obviously is very good at what she does and surely does not need state assistance
This, once again, underscores that those who cannot see the conflict of interest between the future leader of the PQ and his media holdings are blind or just in deep denial.
The Parti Quebecois is about to become Parti Quebecor and the lines which are blurred now will soon become invisible.
SAQ thinks we’re idiots
The folks running the SAQ must take us for fools.
Not only do we pay inflated prices for just about everything, but the SAQ successfully got away with its "no bag" caper a few years back.
They argued it was for the environment although I suspect the motive was profit.
We can't even brown bag it in Quebec, although next door in Ontario, the LCBO seems to be fine with paper bags which are environmentally friendly.
Now the SAQ says it cannot get involved in recycling the 250 million bottles it sells every year because, they argue, it would be too expensive.
Did you know that 60 percent of those wine bottles you put in the recycling bin at home end up in landfills?
And the SAQ has steadfastly refused to get involved even though it does collect an environmental tax for each bottle sold.
The hypocrisy is staggering
Tired, old, language debates
The last thing we need in Quebec right now is another language debate.
The Quebec Court of Appeal this week rejected the Liberal government’s efforts to force big box stores to add French descriptions to their trademark signs.
The best thing Quebec can do right now is leave this alone -- or at least refer it to the Supreme Court which will take a few years at least to figure it out.
It is not a huge deal and businesses ideally should decide for themselves whether they want French-language ‘descriptors’ or not.
The premier says he hasn't ruled out tightening the law, but history has shown that anytime the Bill 101 file is opened, you never know what it is going to happen and with the PQ always clamouring to toughen up the charter, remember Bill 14.
This needs a soft touch and a very steady hand to keep it calm.
There is no language crisis.
Just those who desperately wish for one.
