By attempting to hand the bill for their decade-long feast to low and middle-income families, Quebecs elites are in the process of pulling off perhaps the greatest heist in the provinces history. And rather than having us turn our attention to the true source of Quebecs fiscal woes — tax cuts for the rich — much of Quebecs media is encouraging us to blame each other. They want us to direct our anger over new health care user fees and Hydro Quebec rate increases towards protesting students and municipal workers. This is folly. In the face of such a massive injustice Quebecers cannot afford to be divided, nor can we afford to passively accept this. We need to unite into a single movement with a single demand: make the wealthiest pay their fair share first. Before harming the quality of the public services we all rely on, before imposing or increasing a single-user fee that hurts average Quebecers, before violating collective agreements and refusing to negotiate in good faith with public sector workers, ask the wealthy to give back some of what they have taken from all of us over the last 15 years.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:05:49 +0000
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