François Legault is already stricken with fatigue in the face of the Trudeau government.
As if the end of naivety had sounded. As if he had already put his claims away, since still without result. A waste of time, anyway.
Its reaction to the federal offer on health transfers, six times lower than the demands of the provinces, illustrates this well.
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To explain his intact shirts, PM Legault said he had a “big day”. No energy for pout.
It goes deeper: the PM already seems to have grown tired – or realistic – of a federal government that is intractable over its powers. He will not have a “new relationship” with Canada, as he wished.
Devoid of the fighting spirit and the creativity necessary to change the balance of power with the federal government a little, François Legault is cashing in from now on. And revises its requirements downwards. This was already the case with immigration issues. This is the case now in health.
Earlier, Gaétan Barrette, a former Liberal minister, accused the Trudeau government of practicing “predatory federalism” after a failure in negotiations on health transfers. François Legault, he says he is only “disappointed” with the federal offer.
Other times too, we had the impression that the roles were reversed in Quebec.
The CAQ in the role of the PLQ, and Legault in the role of Jean Charest faced with opposition that demanded to do more.
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Note this.
The Trudeau government leads a minority government, practically in tatters, and needs Quebec and Ontario for its re-election. In front of him, two governments in the saddle: Doug Ford in Ontario and an imperial CAQ government which boasted of its balance of power after its re-election.
And it ends in the status quo – or in tiny gains.
In the Canadian orbit, nothing changes, everything repeats itself, regardless of the strength of the government in place. We already knew that PM Legault was a half-hearted federalist.
Now he mostly looks like a tired federalist.