My God, I'm starting to become a real Quebecker, a real Canadian. I'm starting to complain all the time! But holy christ, the level of lies and corruption and dissimulation that goes on here, coupled with growing wreck that is our civil infrastructure, it's hard not to complain. The Montreal region is literally falling apart. I'm sure you've heard about report after report of crumbling bridges and overpasses, huge chunks of concrete falling on people, rebar sticking out, endless public construction jobs. On top of it all, we pay the most taxes in North America. I am fine with paying taxes. I believe strongly in paying taxes. Hell, I don't even mind some inefficiency in the distribution of that money throughout the social services. I recognize that when a system gets that large it is going to be far from perfect.
But what is going on in Quebec today and has been going on for decades goes far beyond simple inefficiency. It is straight out crime. Theft. Corruption. Government officials, both in the bureaucracy and in the elected classes collude with organized crime contractors to siphon massive amounts of taxpayer money for public projects that go into their own pockets and into party coffers. This goes on at every level, municipal and provincial and is massive. This is the reason Quebec is the most expensive province in Canada and the worst when it comes to construction efficiency. It is a joke. I mean I used to think that road work in New York City was embarrassing, but wow Quebec makes NYC look like Abu Dhabi.
And we've had empty reports and government investigations going on for years with no results at all. So finally, we get some teeny bit of real information from the rapport de l'unité d'anticollusion, led by ex-cop Jacques Duchesneau, which basically confirms everything I said above. And guess what the minister of transport, Pierre Moreau, says. That basically it's a few bad apples, that we shouldn't have a public inquiry, that it's exaggerated and that we should just let the police get on with their business.
Holy shit. That just shows first how deep the corruption goes and second how little anyone involved in it really believes they will ever get busted for it. At the very least, we could expect a strongly worded, righteous response about how this will be dealt with. But here their arrogance is so vast that they don't even bother giving the people that rhetoric. They basically are telling us that there is nothing we can do about it and if there is, they sure aren't going to be ones to do it. Does anybody remember what happened to the federal Liberals when they took this same attitude when it came to the sponsorship scandal? At this point, I don't even care about other political issues at the provincial level. Let's just turf these fuckers out right now. They are vampires sucking the life of the province away. Fat and bloated, they want power for power's sake and do not give a shit about the people of Quebec. Let's get rid of Tremblay here in Montreal as well. And when the new government comes in, we need a serious purge of the bureaucracy and sub-ministries as well as the big contracting and architecture firms. Line them up in the Olympic Stadium in their underwear for all to see and then send them off to clear the streets of snow by hand for the rest of their lives. Scumbags.
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