00:11:19.500They're all basically in the anti-hate experts.
00:11:22.720There's no such thing as being an anti-hate expert.
00:11:25.060Hate is a human emotion and people can feel different emotions when they talk all the time.
00:11:29.480It's not necessarily a bad thing for people to be motivated by that human emotion as long as when they act, they don't act in a way that's violent or discriminatory.
00:11:39.860I mean, you can't tell someone to stop having feelings on the anniversary of 9-11 or when you see a horrific crime happen.
00:11:46.320You're going to naturally have a human reaction.
00:21:31.660I think at the time, in the public sector.
00:21:34.120So there have been all kinds of episodes.
00:21:36.580Personally, I believe in basic public services.
00:21:39.560For me, a child who needs care should be treated,
00:21:42.440and they have the right to go to school.
00:21:44.460There are things on which you never compromise in a society.
00:21:47.040And as a wealthy society, we have the means.
00:21:51.200So I believe in public services, which places me more in the center-left in principle.
00:21:57.240But we are in a period where the bureaucracy is growing three times faster than the population,
00:22:02.660while services are no longer meeting people's needs.
00:22:06.240So, to go back to your earlier point, if we are not operating ideologically and are strictly committed to the truth,
00:22:12.980At some point, you are forced to say that there will have to be significant cuts to the bureaucracy if we want basic services to survive an aging population, and also the influx we've seen, with 600,000 temporary residents suddenly arriving in Quebec all at once.
00:22:30.180We can see that the systems are no longer keeping up.
00:22:36.960It's a question of, I don't know if at this point it's a matter of left or right anymore.
00:22:42.240it's about accurately naming where we are as a society. Some might say that it's not a big deal
00:22:49.360if not all seniors are cared for or if not all children have access to school. I firmly believe
00:22:55.200that there are things we must deliver for everyone in society. But if we're not managing to do that
00:23:00.000right now, it's because there are problems elsewhere and we need to be able to name them.
00:23:04.720And if naming those problems leads some people to label me as being on the right,
00:24:20.300It's simply that the reason for the $10 billion is, and we'll talk about adjustments or changes,
00:24:27.300it's like Pierre Fitzgibbon's checkbook being used in all directions. Funding companies we
00:24:33.060know very little about in some cases. Many are multinationals instead of supporting our own
00:24:38.760Quebec SMEs. There are scandals like SAAQ clique. So clearly management issues. And in general,
00:24:46.880the size of the state, meaning bureaucracy, and I'm talking about office jobs, not people
00:24:51.600delivering services to the population. Those jobs are growing much faster than the population,
00:24:56.000the budgets and the revenues. I don't think that's viable in the current system. For the
00:25:02.200following reason, if at least we had 100% of our budget of our tax revenues, and we said we need
00:25:09.060to make certain adjustments, if we want to ensure that people who have paid taxes all their lives
00:25:14.360have the right to receive care in retirement, then in my view, that would be entirely feasible.
00:25:20.640But if half of your taxes go to Ottawa, and this is often overlooked, we tend to focus on the Quebec government, which, compared to other Canadian provinces, is not out of control in terms of debt.
00:25:34.300And we overlook the fact that the other half of taxes goes to a government that is engaged in ideological drift in all directions, duplicates what we already do, and provides very few services for that half of the taxes.
00:25:48.540So one half goes to health care, education, social services, and just about all the challenges in our society.
00:25:55.380And then you have the other side, the government of Canada, which says, I might send you transfers eventually.
00:26:02.420But generally, I prefer to duplicate what you already do in order to exercise power over you through taxation.
00:26:08.480As for your question, I don't think that if we remain within Canada and accept duplication and that level of waste in Ottawa, it leads to what's called fiscal asphyxiation.
00:26:21.320You no longer have the revenues needed for your responsibilities.
00:26:25.320And it's actually very surprising for your listeners, those who follow you and who are conservatives from the PCQ.
00:26:30.480It's astonishing to see that when I say Quebec independence would mean we cannot rehire all federal public servants and that we would have to cut that bureaucracy.
00:26:41.340If we want not only to deliver services, but probably also reduce the tax burden on people who are struggling, it's incredible to see the Quebec Conservative Party oppose what I'm saying and defend that federal bureaucracy because that's where the most waste is.
00:26:57.180So logically, someone who believes there is too much overlap, too much paperwork management and not enough services for the taxes paid should support eliminating one level of government so that decisions are made in one place instead of three different ones where no one agrees, procedures multiply and layers of control keep increasing.
00:27:17.480Because it does cost money. If Quebec were to become independent, there would be costs to create departments that don't currently exist.
00:31:00.280The state will never be perfect, and private companies won't be either, by the way.
00:31:04.640You also have to understand that often when we turn to the private sector, but with public funds, private companies are not more Catholic than the Pope.
00:31:13.680They are just as capable of overbilling.
00:31:16.000I'll give you an example in health care, since that was your topic.
00:31:19.520We turn to the private sector for nurses, private staffing agencies.
00:31:23.500Essentially, what they did was recruit nurses who were already working five days a week, sometimes with overtime.
00:31:30.280They offered them positions of three days a week at locations chosen by the agency.
00:31:35.180But the agency overcharged and kept a large profit margin, which was passed on to the state.
00:31:41.700And suddenly, we ended up paying $2 billion more for nurses because of these private agencies,
00:31:47.820for less work and with terrible working conditions, where people left and only a few remained, constantly working overtime.
00:31:56.340The private sector, you have to define which one and whether it makes sense or not.
00:32:01.220Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't.
00:32:49.060You know, I'm very much in favor of measuring each region of Quebec, so there's some what we call benchmarking, sorry for the Anglicism, but evaluation metrics.
00:33:01.040And there are things Sante Quebec does, but someone will have to explain to me in what parallel universe we're going to have both a Ministry of Health and a Sante Quebec trying to coordinate,
00:33:10.540and a minister who, depending on what's advantageous, sides with one or the other,
00:33:15.800or sometimes, as we've seen, washes their hands of it by saying,
00:36:38.280And what really bugs me about this is that an outright majority of people in her riding vote a conservative, which is, you know, it's quite a high level in our multi-party system to get.
00:36:50.400I think she got 53% more than all of the other parties combined.
00:36:55.020But to frustrate the will, to ignore the will,
00:36:57.220to overrule the will of the majority and say,
00:37:00.300no, no, we have a secret backroom deal
00:37:01.960by which we can void the results of a legitimate election.
00:37:06.800How is that not a form of democratic corruption?
00:37:09.900I say again, there are occasional reasons
00:37:12.560why someone would cross the floor on principle
00:37:15.960if there's some crisis, but that's not the case here.
00:37:18.600You have sheer opportunism on both sides, and I thought it was really gross.
00:37:23.260ACNH Celeste says, I wish I could sign the independence petition and vote every day in support for Alberta separation.
00:37:29.180Since immigrating here 12 years ago, so much has changed under the Liberal Party rule.
00:37:32.900And Alberta's most recent imported voters from Ontario is the final straw.
00:37:36.740If separating doesn't happen, sadly, there's an exit plan in place.