Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Too soon, by Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau
08/09/2010 4:39
In October 2009, the Minister Claude Bechard was interviewed very touching and very lucid Josélito Michaud. "If it comes back, I know it's over," he said. It comes back. And he died at age 41, hours after it was bizarrely announced his resignation.
We always repeat the same phrases about the death.
No justice
"Death is the only justice here", and "should live each day as if it were the last."
Both statements are probably the dumbest sentences ever imposed.
Indeed, how can death be considered a form of justice?
Bastards die in their sleep 92 years while citizens are best carried by terrible diseases in the prime of life.
Where is where the justice in that? The Spanish dictator Franco died at 83 years. Maurice Papon, the French war criminal who helped the Nazis in deporting hundreds of Jews, dead at age 97. Henry Kissinger, who instigated the coup in Chile and authorized the bombing of Cambodian civilians, 87 years and has always delivered speeches at the four corners of the planet.
Claude Bechard, he died of pancreatic cancer at age 41, survived by four children ...
No wonder that man invented God. How could we endure such injustice, if not?
The last day
The second sentence is equally stupid.
Because let's be honest: if we lived each day as if it was the last person would not work, we would be all in Olomouc Olomouc islands, a cocktail in each hand ...
At the end of his life when he felt the breath of the Grim Reaper on his neck, Claude Bechard said that had he known he would not have so much work, he spent more time with his wife and children ...
"During the night, you think child that you do not have time to do," he told Denis Lessard.
This year, he was able to attend the show year-end of his two biological daughters.
"It was the first time ... and you can not stop thinking that this may be the last, "he said, choking with emotion.
Under the carpet
It works, it works ...
Why? What it gives, at the end? More money? Some honors?
Do you really think that at the end of your days when you feel the life leave you, you say: "I had to work a little more? Spending a few extra weekends in front of my computer?"
We all behave as though we were immortal. Mind you, this may be the only way to live. Sweep this big monster under the carpet, and line ...
Face death
As my idol, the journalist Christopher Hitchens, who is dying of cancer of the esophagus, Claude Bechard has faced death with dignity and fortitude.
"We can not always put his plans later, he launched Josélito. They must do it now ... "
The young minister had already established the "other side" when he said that.
But we who inhabit the land of the living still, are we able to hear this message?
Labels: Parti Libéral du Québec, Québec, Richard Martineau
Bastarache Commission: the hacker, by Richard Martineau
Richard Martineau
07/09/2010 4:40
The Committee Bastarache still a funny, sensitive sound hacker, you can not find?
After all, the Gomery commission was based on facts.
There was an investigation by the Auditor General, information, evidence, reports in the newspapers showing by example that the government had paid $ 550,000 to a marketing firm for a report that no one could find, etc..
In short, this commission was based on the solid. We had every reason in the world of developing.
On sand
However, the Committee Bastarache based on unproven allegations and not proven.
Bellemare said the Prime Minister said such a matter. Charest said that it is false.
No fact, no evidence. What assertions. As Anglos say: "He says, hey says."
Or you believe the Prime Minister or you believe the former Minister of Justice.
Unless a last minute surprise (a cookie hidden in closet that has heard it all), the commission will never succeed in revealing what really happened between these two men.
Doubts continue to float.
Haters will Charest fiduciary principle of presumption of innocence and convict him. Those who love it will defend tooth and nail, saying he was the subject of a settling of accounts.
No skeptic will be confused, no believer will not be converted.
Duelling
In fact, Bastarache is not a commission. It is a duel.
Marc Bellemare has launched claims questioning the honesty and respectability of Jean Charest. Charest went and created a commission of inquiry to clear his name.
At other times (at the time of muskets and top hats), Charest slapped his former minister in public and would have summoned to appear at the edge of a forest in the early hours of the morning with a witness and a pistol.
Contrary to the Gomery commission, the commission took no both been set up to inform people that wash the honor of a politician.
Come see comedians
The LCN network card disseminating board hearings Bastarache. Normal: this is the best theater in town.
Given that such allegation can be proved, it is all about the game and the credibility of the belligerents.
The issue is not "who will tell the truth?" (They probably never would have known), but "SEEMS as telling the truth?"
So we carefully scanning the faces of the two adversaries.
The slightest blink of an eye, a drop of sweat, the slightest tremor of the cheek are analyzed, dissected, skinned.
It's like when the American judge Clarence Thomas was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill.
The Republicans took to him. The Democrats took for her.
But what has really happened between these two people? Nobody can say with certainty.
Our vision of the facts depends on our political allegiance.
A disturbing experience
In the twelfth century, Ibn Munqidh Syrian prince attended a duel between a blacksmith and an old man.
The experience was profoundly shocked.
"Where was the justice in that?," He cried. Where was the criminal? Where was the innocent?"
Damn good question.
Labels: Parti Libéral du Québec, Québec, Richard Martineau
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Tribute to Claude Bechard
Hello Claude,
Here I learned that your departure from the policy that morning, and now I hear your death at dinner time. I'll miss you, tremendously. I am proud to have worked at your side few years ago.
I want to wish your spouse, to your four children, and your parents and friends my deepest condolences.
Good bye Claude,
Francis Chartrand
Labels: Francis Chartrand, Parti Libéral du Québec
Monday, October 27, 2008
Which way the wind blows?, by Richard Martineau
Journal de Montréal
At each election, it's the same thing: we always wondered why so many people do not even bother to vote.
Well, my answer to that question.
A two-pronged response: Pierre Auger and Michel André Reidl.
RATHER THAN RED DEAD
Imagine: you vote for two candidates adéquistes because you want to kick ass party in power, and what happens?
The two candidates that you have elected their badge ADQ throw in the trash and join the ranks of party you want to dislodge!
Hello slap in the face ...
Pierre Michel Auger and André Reidl did not even have the decency to declare itself independent members, no. They immediately jumped into the liner of the Prime Minister not to sink the boat with their former leader.
And do not come tell me that because our two zozos suddenly converted to liberal credo. These guys are completely not care program PLQ (as it does not care from the ADQ). All they want is a job.
The ruling party would have been obedience Communist qu'Auger and Reidl had sung gloriously The Internationale, the torso draped in a flag bearing the effigy of Lenin.
As Jacques Dutronc sang: "I am for Communism / I am for socialism / And capitalism / Because I am opportunistic / There are those who contest / Who claim and protesting / I do that a single gesture / I return my jacket / Always on the right side / I trust the voters / And I want to do my butter ... "
AT GENIES OF NONOS <7b>
As for Jean Charest, he demonstrated an even cynicism.
One day, the ADQ is a party of two of pique populous ignorant and uneducated. The next day, the two defectors from the party of Mario Dumont are welcomed with pride and enthusiasm.
Why? Because Jean Charest is that they are candidates value?
No. Because it made two more members of its board. Auger and Reidl have the IQ of a refrigerator light that the Prime Minister vanterait great intelligence.
All these people will not care voters and democracy. All that interests them is to push the puck in the net of the opponent.
SAILING
All sociologists and economists say Quebec is in trouble up to his neck.
The solutions we are out of the hole. All specialists know. But no politician will not apply.
Why? For that. For the same reason Reidl and Auger have switched parties, and Jean Charest has welcomed with open arms.
Because politicians think only one single thing: staying in power. Getting re-elected.
They will not care in Quebec, they will not care in Canada, they will not care of ideology, welfare workers, health of democracy or program of their party.
They are neither right nor left, green or red or blue.
They are in the wind, that's all.
And they adjust their sails under his leadership.
Labels: Action Démocratique du Québec, Elections, Parti Libéral du Québec, Québec, Richard Martineau
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