“My very simple judgment of the years [de Pierre-Elliott] Trudeau […]is that these years of reign, if you like, tended systematically to weaken Quebec, to surround it, and to a certain point, to eliminate it from the map as a national entity. And on the other hand, what’s sad too […]the economy for him was nothing, it was the same! So what’s sad is that objectively […]the years of this reign coincided […] [avec] a terrible decline of Canada in the most sensitive area, the one where people suffer the most quickly and the most numerous when things go badly, that is to say that of economic health.
This is René Lévesque’s assessment of the years of the Trudeau patriarch.
Frontal attacks against Quebec and economic disaster
It’s incredible all the same. Lévesque’s words could apply to Justin Trudeau’s record. Father and son were not interested in economics. Justin Trudeau doubled Canada’s debt, GDP per capita has fallen since 2020, biggest deficit…
Justin continued the work of his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau
The unilateral patriation of the Constitution is certainly the biggest snub inflicted on Quebec, but the Trudeau junior government, without being as spectacular, has slyly continued in a multitude of policies the work of its father aimed at undermining the development of Quebec.
Exasperated and powerless, François Legault even went so far as to ask Quebecers to vote against the Liberal Party, which he considered dangerous for Quebec while qualifying Justin Trudeau as the most centralizing prime minister in recent Canadian history. It’s still major.
Justin Trudeau is leaving, but will Quebecers remember the Liberal record? Opposition to language policies, secularism, centralization. Interference in Quebec’s areas of jurisdiction. Refusal to act in immigration. Federal asphyxiation in health with refusal of provincial consensus for federal transfers.
I remember?
