Anything excessive is insignificant.
If we can understand François Legault’s exasperation about asylum seekers, the fact remains that his recent Parisian outings are really crude and excessive.
In recent days, Legault has proposed what we could call “spectacle solutions”.
First, the creation of waiting areas to establish the status of asylum seekers. Then, coercive measures to move half of the asylum seekers in Quebec to the rest of Canada, which would be equivalent to the displacement of 80,000 people.
Show solutions, because everyone knows that won’t happen. PM Legault, understood.
Because it is against our laws on freedom of movement.
It’s impractical as to how to do this.
It is counterproductive when we know the positions of the federal government.
This is unachievable when we know that the Canadian provinces do not want this distribution.
It’s also a huge waste of time.
Compensation
François Legault does compensation.
He compensates for his lack of results in immigration with shocking declarations.
His demands keep getting smaller.
From full powers in 2018 to the simple category of family reunification in 2022, today he is only asking for a better distribution of asylum seekers.
Repeated rebuffs, despite everything.
Its means also continue to change.
In 2022, a “strong mandate” was enough to make Ottawa bend, then we considered a referendum on immigration, then a common front with the other provinces, and now the solution would lie in a conservative government. We lose our heads there.
The more his political project comes up against Ottawa, the more virulent his words become. To the point of becoming laughable.
A solution?
The issue of asylum seekers has been on the PM’s desk for more than two years.
These kinds of outings discredit him, and at the same time discredit the legitimate concerns of Quebecers.
The stakes are too important to only arrive at proposals drawn on the corner of a tablecloth in a Parisian bistro, as is currently the case.
