There are three ready -made sentences that have turned a lot lately.
Posted at 7:00 a.m.
Shock formulas that have immersed us in a state of amazement. They deserve to dwell on it.
About the Haitian refugees who start to flock to Quebec, the Minister of Immigration, Jean-François Roberge, spoke of “all the misery of the world”. To which the academician Dany Laferrière replied that it was “all the richness of the world”.
And the one who is at the origin of this population chaos, Donald Trump, launched, about the 70 countries which had started with him negotiations to lower the customs duties: “all these countries lick my ass”.
In front of so much noise, where to start?
With threats of expulsion from Trump, Quebec is in the process of knowing a new Roxham episode. Haitians whose status was legal in the United States will see their situation turning into a nightmare on April 24. Faced with the imperious threat – being picked up by the ICE brigades, being detained and expelled in the country that we fled – several are tempted to pass in Canada irregularly.
In Quebec, precisely, where many have family or knowledge.
The whole political class, the leaders of the big parties, the Minister of Immigration, Jean-François Roberge, have taken over this sentence from the Frenchman Michel Rocard: “Quebec cannot alone welcome all the misery of the world. The unfortunate formula had the effect of a bomb.
Those who took it back have recalled that Quebec is a generous reception land, but that our infrastructures crack everywhere. That we are sorely lacking in housing, that our schools overflow, that we lack teachers and that the health system is bloodless.
All this is true. And there is no point in reminding this in the face of what is coming and is likely to be more than a simple wave. What Trump is doing is nameless violence towards these immigrants, and an injustice for Quebec. Because again, Canada looks elsewhere.
What happens when the court is full and that, despite our legendary hospitality, we can no longer afford to welcome so massively?
“All the misery of the world. The sentence evokes racism, selfishness. She shocks. Tenses a distorting mirror, gives us a ugly image of ourselves. Because the elastic of social acceptability is very stretched.
As mentioned, the academician Dany Laferrière replied that Haitian immigration was on the contrary “all the wealth of the world”. “They will be the richness of Quebec in a generation. »»
Immigration is undeniably a plus. Without it, a company sclerosis. But a country, a nation must also have the right to set number limits. The capacity exists.
Finally, that was in the old world.
Because Trump’s policies have changed the situation.
They will have the effect, in the coming years, to create migratory flows everywhere. Economic globalization is over. Waves of unemployed could leave their countries ravaged for Western destinations-except the United States. Climate change will also bring their share of refugees. In favored nations, robotics coupled with artificial intelligence will make millions of jobs superfluous, the very side of our countries is about to change.
These changes force us to approach reality differently. And to consider the question of immigration by presenting it either as an infinite wealth, or as an insurmountable challenge is too simplistic. Immigration is both wealth and a challenge. Useless, therefore, to feel guilty of Quebecers who ask questions about the impact of a new migration wave on public services or on Quebec culture and nation.
The third unwanting sentence comes from Trump: ” These countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. “(” These countries call us and lick my ass. “)
I am wary of psychology to interpret political issues, but there …
Some see in the use of this ordered language the manifestation of the early dementia phase which strikes certain old people and which makes them become coarse. Others say that Trump is a repeat offender obsessed by the behind and the genitals, remember ” Grab them by the pussy (“Catch them with sex”). With him, diplomacy has no place. If he treats publicly with vulgarity and contempt for ancient allied countries, how does he qualify individuals in private, let’s put when he relaxes in the company of the brutal JD Vance, for example?
The man who played golf as the American nation received four of his soldiers who died in Lithuania, without a word of comfort for families, when $ 3000 billion were erased from the market in one day, is a devoyed.
He feasters: the countries affected by customs duties “lick his ass”. Prost it, humble themselves. He rejoices, wallowed in his words of poor guy, bandit. He adds to his aura of bully supersonic.
These three sentences represent a world shaped by Trump.
He is in the process of destroying not only the planetary economy and the world order. But he also ruins empathy.
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