Philippe Couillard: Austérité in Quebec, only for the poor people

Philippe Couillard austerity but not for all!

September billion increase for specialists and general practitioners

Thierry Vandal, liberal, former CEO of Hydro-Québec $ 600,000 Pension

Commission Françoise Robillard, liberal, to retirement, $ 235,000 in addition to the federal retirement

Increase salaries of ministers and deputies 40%

Heather Munroe-Blum, liberal and former director of McGill University, $ 750,000 bounty departure and retirement.

Yves Bolduc, liberal, doctors, premium departures $ 185,000 bounty unknown ... Returns

contracts to Liberal lobbyists, Jean Charest, Raymond Bachand, Lucien Bouchard and hundreds of other several hundred million dollars and the finite list more. The Liberals use and greasy paws as always.

Where is the austerity in Quebec, certainly not our elected officials that practice.

Who are sacrificed?

Bizarre anyway how "sacrificed" are often the same and those who rarely revolve around the daily diet, lobbyists, associations of doctors, judges, Sûreté du Québec, Tony Accurso, pickers funds, allophones, anglophones, etc., that is to say their target customers for elections.

The austerity has always unique in that it is invariably variable geometry.

But in real life, where public services to the people who need it most are reduced, disappear or are outsourced to private, the damage is real and the effects last long.

"Budget cuts will not affect direct services to the population." You probably know the drill. The problem is that as a tune piano sounds wrong.

Austerity unfolds "detriment" of citizens. In health and social services, it is hitting the elderly and disabled of all ages, mental or physical vulnerable.

"The Prime Minister is justified on the negative effects of the cuts on the most  - The youngest to the oldest. Including for autism and intellectual disabilities. We must practice austerity because it is the fault of the poor, who use too fragile public services, promising them that one day everything will be better if reelect the Liberal government at the next election. Which, within the population, is understood as a promise of future reinvestment in the same public services we have reduced.

The "cut the champions", especially in health and  Education

education has always been Québec the poor child of government

Yet no further than last year, the Prime Minister pledged instead to protect the most vulnerable to cuts. Philippe Couillard stated:

In all cases, services for the most vulnerable people in our society and the security of the population will be the subject of special attention health,.

"The basic tasks of the state as  education and assistance to vulnerable people will not be covered, certified Philippe Couillard.

"This phenomenon is the product of many factors, including a growing lack of consistency and transparency to the electorate.

A second factor among many others, and following from the first, is in the same way one writes and prepares more election platforms. Modulated and shaped on sharp internal surveys and the use of "focus groups" - the "focus groups" - platforms often do not reflect the principles guiding a party, but slices of the electorate that it is sought to seduce. What I call the "surgical clientelism".

The operation does not always work, but it works sometimes dramatically.

It is precisely because the platforms are too often modulated on a clientelist electoral strategy they take the path . 13 of the die immediately after taking power

The motto of Quebec, nivelons down and remain in power dear liberal friends-.