Canada: Parti Québécois seeks to rally business support

During an October 1 Radio-Canada broadcast, Boisclair deplored that “there were not enough rich people in Quebec to assume responsibility for our real problems.” His solution? To make Quebec “the place in the world where capital is given the best possible welcome, creating jobs and making people rich.”

What Boisclair preaches, is a regime of lower taxes for companies and drastic cuts in public services and social programs, which is to say an even more pronounced redistribution of social wealth in favor of the small minority of “people” already extremely rich.

In the run up to the next provincial election, which must be held by April 2008, Boisclair is sending an unequivocal message to Quebec’s ruling elite that it can count on the PQ to carry through the offensive against the working class that the Liberals of Jean Charest promised but only partially implemented because of popular opposition.

This program of class war, insists Boisclair, must prevail over any other considerations, including the demands of the ultra-nationalists who constitute the core of his party’s activists for a renewed attempt to establish a capitalist République du Québec or, at the very least, wrest further powers for the provincial state from Ottawa.

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