Do you know the musical My Fair Lady?
Inspired by the piece Pygmalionby George Bernard Shaw, this famous musical comedy (which was brought to the screen with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn) tells the story of a distinguished professor who attempts to transform a slightly vulgar violet seller into a “wife of the world”.
He changes her wardrobe, shows her how to walk, how to speak, how to behave at the table – in short, how to behave to be accepted by “good society”.
Well, that’s what Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is currently trying to do with QS.
It takes a gum-chewing, soft-dressing grassroots movement and attempts to turn it into a “respectable” political party.
Worthy of voters’ trust.
CHANGE YOUR LOOK!
Here’s what GND says to QS:
“QS, you know I love you. We’ve been together for years, and I hope our relationship lasts a long time.
“But I have to tell you something, even if it might shock you. If you want to win the next election, you need to change your look. Because if you stay the way you are, you’ll never go anywhere. The little cafés of the Plateau are all well and good, but at some point you have to grow up, you have to get old! It is not the students of UQÀM who will bring you to power…
- Listen to Richard Martineau’s commentary via QUB :
“Look at the Che Guevara tattoo you have on your neck, for example. Do you think you’re going to appeal to voters with this? You scare them! They see you through the glass and they don’t even want to open the door for you!
“Can you wear a clean shirt and tie it up to the last button to hide your tattoo, please? And then your Doc Martens, no one wears that anymore at your age…
“Look at me. Do I look like a rebel camping out on the McGill campus? No. I am clean. Presentable. Frequent. Combed to the side. Not a hair sticks out. People see me and think I’m an insurance salesman. I inspire confidence. There are even ladies who want to introduce their daughter to me, saying that I am the ideal son-in-law!
“If you just want to spend your days chatting and shoveling clouds, no problem, stay in your old clothes and your old ideas, the Plateau gang will continue to find you very cool. But if you want to win (which, I remind you, is the primary goal of any political party), well, stand up! Get over it! And avoid radical comments!
“Let go of the wokes, the trans people and the migrants, and talk to the middle class!”
VATICAN II
The question that must now be asked is this: does GND want to impose a real change of direction on its party or just a “makeover”?
Is he Jean XXIII or Jean Airoldi?
Are we witnessing Vatican II of the Quebec left or the recording of a reality TV show for Canal Vie?
Archive photo, QMI Agency
For younger people, Vatican II was a reform that Pope John XXIII imposed on the Catholic Church to “bring it closer” to the “real world.”
We abolished masses in Latin, for example, then we allowed everyone in the world to read the Bible (an act which was previously reserved only for priests).
This gave the best (a less elitist Church), but also the worst (masses galore with hippies singing: “Jesus is my friend” while banging on tambourines).
Like John XXIII, GND tells the monks of QS to stop talking “among themselves” in an abstruse language that only hardened activists understand (“intersectionality”, “cisgender”, “queer”), and to move towards “ the real world”, talk to them about the “affairs” that affect them in their daily lives.
I imagine the die-hards are going to freak out.
“The angel Gabriel wants us to turn our backs on dogma and pour Sprite into our font! Unbeliever! Beelzebub!”
But the realists, who believe that nothing is accomplished by railing against capitalism in a dimly lit semi-basement, will probably follow him.
As the heroine sings My Fair Lady:
“All I want is a room of my own
Closed well so that I don’t get cold
And a huge armchair, oh yes!
That would be wonderful!”
DOWN WITH CAPITALISM!
The anti-capitalist protesters who caused chaos in Montreal probably communicated with each other through Facebook. They filmed themselves with their iPhone. They posted these images on X, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok. They kicked the cops with their big Doc Martens. Then they ended the evening listening to the music of a multimillionaire punk band on Spotify while consuming carcinogenic products sold by a tobacco giant that gets rich by shortening the lives of its customers.
Talk to me about a bunch of revolutionaries!
SELECTIVE INDIGNATION
Questions: How come activists currently condemning the Israeli regime on many campuses in the United States, Canada and France say nothing when Islamist regimes throw out homosexuals from 11e floor, imprison and beat women who refuse to wear the veil, organize forced marriages of minors, execute journalists, oppress religious minorities and dig tunnels to rape girls, behead children and disembowel women?
Far-left activists always criticize democracies, never dictatorships.
For what?
ANOTHER KIDS PATENT
After Santé Québec, we are now announcing the creation of Mobilité Infra Québec, another agency which will have to oversee everything relating to public transport.
That’s how it is in Quebec: as soon as there is a problem, we create a children’s license. This way, if the public transportation network functions poorly (as is currently the case), Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault will be able to wash her hands of it and blame the agency’s bureaucrats for having misapplied her directives.
Les Espaces Bleus and Le Panier Bleu are dead. Long live Health Quebec and Mobility Infra Quebec!
