Rodrigue Biron left us on Tuesday at 91.
This name probably did not say much to the young generations: it nevertheless counted in the political history of Quebec.
Biron was the last great leader of the National Union, the party founded by Maurice Duplessis.
Clearly on the right, and first federalist, with a autonomist tendency, he nevertheless joined the yes camp in 1980, with René Lévesque, by taking the side of independence, and by becoming minister in the PQ government.
Its history speaks to us today. She reminds us of how, throughout our history, the separatists have joined people from all trends.
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Monday, Maxime Bernier, the head of the Popular Party of Canada, announced that he will campaign for the yes camp in the next referendum. Officially, to provoke a constitutional crisis in Canada and get out of imperial federalism. It’s his bet.
But he knows that if the yes prevails, Quebec will become an independent state.
This rallying is not anecdotal. Maxime Bernier is a right -wing man. A libertarian, and like most libertarians, he believes in the virtues of decentralization, until secession.
Maxime Bernier has been unjustly ridiculed in recent years, and demonized during the COVID. Was it also lost as we said at the time? When I redo the report of the pandemic, today I tell myself that the lost were not those that we believed.
I add that in a sustatized society, crushed by taxes and taxes, a perspective like his is not too much.
I add that we can be completely disagreed with him on certain important positions while converging on the essential: the yes.
We arrive at Éric Duhaime, a talented man managed to revive a Quebec political right.
What went to do in the anticipated galley of the NO camp? Why does he enclose his party in low-end provincialism which does not correspond to his deep convictions, when he could tell him his own path to yes? He would be welcome.
Should we remember that Mario Dumont, who is not a leftist and was probably the most gifted politician of his generation, before joining the media, and to lead the remarkable career that we know, gave life for the first time to a uninhibited right in Quebec according to the Quiet Revolution, with the ADQ?
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In 1995, he joined the sovereignist camp, and recently, he reiterated that he would vote for sovereignty.
Biron, Bernier, Duhaime and Dumont are not of the same right. But they have in common not to be on the left and to have found their place in the yes camp.
A great place awaits the right in the independence bus. Still she must want to take it.
As Jacques Parizeau said, that the last entry leaves the door open, please.
