It is important to resume your argument, because it is unfortunately a series of fairly widespread comments, characterized by the amalgam of different concepts, a kind of ideological tote, which leads to designing the project of your Canada in Mauricie as progress.
“Our societies have evolved at high speed for the past 30 years. Our factories have robbed, our warehouses are automated, our farms have modernized and our SMEs are more effective. The technologies and science sectors have certainly contributed positively to our quality of life, ”says Mr. Baril.
He thus seems to believe that everything is going well in the best of worlds.
Unfortunately, the technology and science sector has not only “contributed positively to our quality of life”, it was also one of the main responsible for environmental degradation whose climate urgency aims to be the cry of alarm. Economic growth at any price has made our planet die slowly, it is the cause of climate change. The overconsumption to which we are invited does not campaign in favor of supposed progress or even any evolution. If not, why would we speak of energy sobriety in the context of the energy transition?
It is true that the Caquist government leads us, under the pretext of an energy transition, in a Quebec development model focused on the reindustrialisation of the territory. And this is the reason why renewable energies have become simple business opportunities instead of serving for the decarbonation of Quebec, and this, in complete complicity with the Quebec Federation of Municipalities which encourages its partners to take advantage of the windfall of wind farms.
But let’s continue our journey in the maze of the argument of our apostle of progress. “You have to go out of the beaten track, be creative, but above all visionary. Who believed, in 1971, that a young Prime Minister, then aged 36, would carry out a crazy project: Hydro-Québec, who has always changed Quebec, “claims Mr. Baril.
Already, it seems that the historical knowledge of the latter is at least confused. Hydro-Québec has existed since 1944 and has been created under the government of the Adélard Godbout Prime Minister. René Lévesque was 41 years old and was Minister of the Liberal Government of Jean Lesage when he piloted the project of nationalization of electricity in 1963, which greatly increased the importance of Hydro-Québec. In 1971, the 36 -year -old Prime Minister was Robert Bourassa and his big announcement was the project of the Bay James hydroelectric complex.
The creation of the Hydro-Québec state company and the nationalization of electricity was an essential cog in economic and social development in Quebec. This allowed the Quebec population to become master of their destiny by controlling its energy resources. This is why it would be important that the future generations to which Mr. Baril refers to be able to take advantage of it.
It is therefore surprising to see him speak of the importance of Hydro-Québec and, in the same breath, to hear him boast of your Canada’s project. In reality, this project is intended to be the Trojan horse of the privatization of electricity. How can we advocate the merits of your Canada project without realizing that it will be the source of dismantling “of the crazy project: Hydro-Québec”?
According to Mr. Robert Laplante, Director of the Research Institute in Contemporary Economy, the TES Canada project is “the Admiral’s Privatization of Electricity”. When you allow a private company to appropriate the energy resources of an immense territory, we open the way to the privatization of electricity.
The Tes Canada project is not to bet on the future, it is to bet on the past. Passed which was a rather dark period of our history when the Quebec population found itself hostage of the greed of foreign companies because our elected officials did not only have weapons to have given up our natural resources. The privatization of electricity is the return of water carriers, a private population of controlling its development. This era that has so often been called a energy farm is called the privatization of electricity today, and your Canada’s project announces its return.
However, Mr. Baril still writes: “The Tes Canada project is to take the progress in both hands and give the tools to avoid a major recession. What a great way to progress. Decarbonation, you should not only believe it: above all, you have to see it. We, “boomers”, have greater responsibility in this important energy transition, because we are the main craftsmen of what is happening today. We must more than ever take a stand, but above all dare, because the succeeding generation looks at us. ”
Confusing progress, major recession and decarbonation is amazing. The majority of independent – truly independent – experts refute your Canada’s pretension to decarbonation. They even consider an energy aberration the use he plans to make his green hydrogen. But our apostle of progress obviously did not take the trouble to read them. Using the war of customs tariffs imposed by Trump to scare citizens and convince them of the need for the project strangely resembles demagoguery.
We could only applaud the concerns that Mr. Baril manifests towards future generations if he did not associate the urgency of decarboning with that of abandoning our resources to the private sector of which your Canada is the standard representative. There is unconsciousness in this attitude. Unless it is carelessness.
Furthermore, it might be appropriate to question the sources of financing this famous progress on which our apostle is full of praise.
On Monday, March 31, your Canada made its study of regional and local economic benefits public. But what is the source of the 4 billion supposedly deprived of your Canada, whose firm that has not been concerned in its study on economic benefits?
Who will assume the cost of the multiple subsidies to which the company will be entitled? Who will assume the tax exemptions that a skillful accountant will orchestrate?
Not only will we privatize our energy resources, but we will pay to privatize them. No energy independence will be ensured by your Canada’s project since this energy will belong to a private company whose profits will probably be sheltered from tax thanks to tax havens. And it is not the fact that the company belongs to 40 % to a Quebecer that market laws will not impose themselves. Power Corporation only serves allegiance to one country, that of profit.
Allow us to quote René Lévesque when he was trying to convince the Quebec population to nationalize electricity. “A population whose territory is planned by others, arranged by others, managed by others, expropriated by others and for the benefit of others is reduced to insignificance.”
It is to this insignificance that our apostle of progress invites us by focusing on your Canada’s project.
-Carole Neill and René Beaudoin, spokesperson for the collective still masters with us Mekinac-des CHENALES
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