THE END OF LOGIC

You don't have to like the Government in power. You don't have to like its policies. You don't even have to really care for politics in general. But there is something you have to care about and that is the existence of some form of logic Today marked the day that logic ended in the Province of Quebec. This afternoon the Minister responsible for Education Line Beauchamp, resigned not only from her position but from politics all together. She was quoted as saying, '' I am no longer part of the solution,'' end quote, to the ongoing student dispute, boycott, strike or whatever you wish to call it. Line Beauchamp was not only the Minister of Education but was also the Deputy-Premier, which simply meant that should the Premier himself become unable to fill his duties Madame Beauchamp would take over running the Province. This Minister was not some fly by night politician. She was an example of what politicians should aspire to. She entered politics in 1998, in 2003 she was named Minister of Culture and Communications. During this time she sat on a variety of Parliamentary Committees working to make the Province a better place. In 2007 she became the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks. In 2010 she became the Minister of Education. During all of this time she served the members of the Quebec community without controversy. She did her job and contributed to the improvement of the Province with a dedication to its people and their quality of life and now she has resigned.

For what? For a dollar a day increase in tuition fee increases proposed by the Government? Because she agree to negotiate with student association representatives who could not even back their own signatures on paper? Because she gave into numerous demands which were not even part of the original boycott (strike). Because she sat across the table from naive, individualistic, self centred kids (yes I said kids) who had only the capacity to negotiate a, ''principal of agreement'' and then not even back it? Because she worked with the attitude that she could offer the base line to a better future in the education system only to see an agreement voted down by associations who in many cases were made up of 15 and 30 who represent 30,000 but never took the offer to those 30,000 and allowed them to vote on it? Because she sat across the table from individuals who have allowed violence to fester and manifest itself in a variety of destructive demonstrations? Because she sat across from kids who claimed to everyone that would listen that they had, ''given enough concessions to the Government''? When in fact they had given NONE! Well yes, for all of these reasons she resigned but I think for one more important one. She recognized that logic had seen its day in this Province!

Today all logic ended in this Province and we should all be ashamed of ourselves. All of us for allowing what has become a mockery of democracy to go on this long. The silent majority who are in fact silent (shamefully so). The leaders of the opposition parties who posture and position with little interest in what is good for the people of this Province but what is good for their prospective in getting elected. The grey haired, still smoking weed journalists, dreaming of the 1960 and 70's revolutions pumping out the same old crap they were back in the day. Crack pots like Amir Khadir who create a septic environment by trying to increase the volatility by making innuendos that the police are infiltrating the violent protesters and actually causing the violence. The Union leaders who insert themselves into the fray like termites into wood and chew away at the fabric of democracy hidden from detection, weaving a path of destruction with only self serving objectives. The professors who claim to be on the side of the students but only of course those boycotting, not the ones with court injunctions in hand allowing them the education they pay for; to be taught by those professors who from day one of the conflict have continued to draw their full salary while doing nothing but adding fuel to the fire. The students who rallied at the court house on Monday to support the 4 metro smoke bomb tossing idiots. The ones now charged with promoting terrorism. ( I wonder if some older person in not so good health had died of a heart attack due to the panic of finding themselves underground surrounded by smoke. I wonder if there had been panic and someone had gotten knocked down a few flights of stairs and broken their skull and died, if those same students lending support to those 4 dip shits would still be outside the courthouse? Logic? None to be found!


Yes today all logic ended and we are all to blame. The simple fact is the tuition issues is only the tip of the iceberg of what must be dealt with in the years to come concerning fiscal management in this Province. This Province that tilts towards independence and claims to have the ingredients necessary to make out in the big, big World. If this is how we apply logic in this Province then we have to believe that in fact not only did logic end. It is possibly dead forever and if so we just may be too.