{"id":4139,"date":"2020-05-07T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:08:55","slug":"mr-joseph-facal-trudeau-legault-you-and-me-trudeau-legault-vous-et-moi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/05\/07\/mr-joseph-facal-trudeau-legault-you-and-me-trudeau-legault-vous-et-moi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Joseph Facal: \u201cTrudeau, Legault, you and me\u201d [\u201cTrudeau, Legault, vous et moi\u201d]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Following the link below, you can find a translation of an article by Mr. Facal published today in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2020\/05\/07\/trudeau-legault-vous-et-moi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/strong>Since the\nbeginning of this crisis, I defend Fran\u00e7ois Legault, but I have severely\ncriticized Justin Trudeau.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readers have\nasked me why the latter is not entitled to the same indulgence as the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an\nhonest question that deserves an honest answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I am more severe with Trudeau, it is not, as readers believe, because I am a sovereignist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legault, after all, has turned his back on the cause. So why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serious cinephiles may be familiar with an old Stanley Kubrick film entitled Paths of Glory<\/em> (1957).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plot matters little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suffice to say that, during World War I, Colonel Dax was in the trenches with his men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever the order to attack was given, he came out of his hole and charged with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bullets whistled. His men fell like flies around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, far, far, far from the front, well sheltered in their headquarters, Generals Broulard and Mireau sip champagne while dreaming of glory, medals, and promotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I use the film allegorically, you will understand, not to be taken at face value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legault and the premiers are in the trenches. They are the ones who receive the bullets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hospitals, CHSLDs [long-term care centres], daycares, schools, the decision to close or reopen businesses, to close or not regions, to give us instructions to stay at home or not, to wear a mask or not, all this are decisions of provincial governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sharing of responsibilities is like that in many federations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the United States too, while Trump invents his science every day, the governors are at the front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does Legault make mistakes? Obviously. As he said on Tuesday, there is no operations manual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His best reflex was to have grasped the gravity of the situation from the start and acted quickly with the means he had. Not Trudeau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was talking about constitutional responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trudeau was responsible for border control and for travelers arriving here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was the last in the country to accept that everything had to be closed. How many infected people have returned who have infected others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, at Easter, while you and I were locked up by obligation, he left for the cottage with a wife and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he was kind enough, it\u2019s true, to share beautiful selfies with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then caught up, you say, by spending without counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, but it’s our money, our debt, and signing checks is easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fault?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will be told, if we want to compare equivalent jurisdictions, that Legault does not deserve congratulations since there are more deaths here than in other provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember that more than 70% of COVID-19 deaths in Qu\u00e9bec took place in residences for the elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, more than half of the elderly who, in Canada, live in these institutions, neglected for ages, are in Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legault’s fault?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the link below, you can find a translation of an article by Mr. Facal published today in the Journal de Montr\u00e9al: https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2020\/05\/07\/trudeau-legault-vous-et-moi \u201cSince the beginning of this crisis, I defend Fran\u00e7ois Legault, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}