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***, I've had it.
*** I'm ashamed.
People tick me off.
I'm ashamed to see what our society is becoming.
The return of the right, and People! ***.
The Journal de Montreal, "Ah, the youth of today,"
Obviously, we are talking about the increase in tuition fees.
And we will talk about all these right wing, wingnut proposals,
More fascism than since I took a university course about WWII.
*** right wing wingnuts, "Ah but everyone has a right to their own opinion,"
No! Enough! There are limits!
An example of an idea from the right:
"Me, when I was a kid, I got by,
"I worked eight jobs at the same time, I paid my own fees."
"And me, in my own time, we had nothing."
"Me, I didn't need university, "Me, I think the youth of today, they got it all," "I think they this, they that...
Why are you talking about you?
Do you think Quebec will take administrative decisions, government-level decisions,
based on you,
because you, when you were young, you had a *** life?
What are you, jealous? Youth of today, they get more more girls?
What's your *** problem?
If your life is ***, don't make a budget, a government plan,
because of your jealousy of the youth of today.
"Youth of today, youth of today," They're your kids for God's sake,
what's the problem?
Let me give an example of a proposal from the right.
You'll see how this works.
Me, I am in good health.
Me, I don't need medicines.
Me, I don't go to the hospital.
Healthcare is expensive.
So someday down the road, Charest passes a law that says, Every time you go to the hospital, it costs you $250.
People, ***, off they go to protest.
"Me, I don't care.
"Me, When I was sick I took care of myself.
"And we walked to school. "I took care of myself.
"I'm healthy, so I don't care."
"But what about some old lady, with cancer, goes to the hospiral twice a week..."
"*** sick people, always paying for them Always wanting more..."
Come on. "*** sick people, always paying for them Always wanting more..."
Come on.
Daycare for $7. "I have no kids, I don't give a holy chalice."
"Ah, but me, I have three kids."
"Listen up: Having kids is an investment. These parents should pay their own way.
"Me, I don't have kids, I don't give a ***."
"Well, as for me, I pay taxes so that I can get these services.
And furthermore, $7 daycare lets me return to the workforce."
"Why should I pay my taxes so that you can go work as a secretary for $13 an hour?"
And you can't use those taxes to pay for tuition either.
OK!
Governments collect taxes to offer services to help people back onto the job market.
"Ah, that'a good idea, $7 daycare!"
Allowing people to go to post-secondary education also seems to me like it's a good idea.
Yes but, in Qubece, we are the provice that pays the lowest tuition.
Well, yes.... And in Quebec we pay the highest taxes.
We pay taxes to pay for services, like:
healthcare, $7 daycare, and post-secondary education.
They can't have their cake and eat it too.
You can't pay the same price here as a province with half the tax rate.
And you can't ask a young person to pay such high fees before they go out into the job market,
and then saddle them when they get out with a 50% tax rate. It's like paying for it twice.
"Ah yeah, but they're protesting over $250 per year." OK stop right there.
"And if you calculate all these tax credits and then if you factor in GST, HST credits
that everyone gets anyways, it comes out to only..." Listen, it's an increase of about $350 per year.
But it's not $350 per year. It's $350 the first year.
It's $700 the second year. The third year it's $1000.
So the students protesting in the streets protesting now, they're not protesting for themselves.
Them, if they're starting a degree now, they graduate with about $3000, $4000 more of debt.
But it's the others, in four or five years,
who have to have pay about $4000, $4500 per year for tuition.
Instead of $20,000 of debt they will have to borrow $30,000 or $40,000.
A mortgage, for *** sake.
They have to get a mortgage to study at university. To get a diploma,
and maybe to be a prof, a teacher, ...
We don't all become doctors, surgeons at $200,000 per year.
Some people will do jobs for $30,000, $40,000
And will have to make payments on a mortgage the size of a house on Mt Royal.
"Yes but youth of today, they are so spoiled," Listen that's been an argument since the Greeks,
5,000 years before Jesus Christ. I think Plato said, our youth, they have it too easy,
Look: Every parent thinks their kids have more than they did. Which is supposed to be a good thing!
We're supposed to make things better for the next generation. But it's not true.
"Young people, they have iPhones, they travel..."
Hey, when I went to university, I had a phone at my house, Man, this isn't Cambodia.
I had a walkman to listen to music, I had a stereo,
I bought myself a little camera to take pictures.
"Young people, they all have iPhones." ***. An iPhone, it costs $250, and it does all that.
And it's this big.
A subscription for an iPhone is $30 per month. "A person has no right to a phone!"
"Not to call mom, not to ask for a pint of milk. No."
Holy *** Eucharist!
"Ah, but they travel." Yes, they travel. Do you want to go travel like they do?
To go do backpacking down the coast of the U.S., sleeping in sleeping bags.
"Ah they go to Europe," They go and they stay in dorms, in student hostels.
When they go down south they sleep six to a hotel room.
Look, if you're jealous, and you want to travel too, go do it.
"Ah but me, I can't travel, because I have a mortgage, a house." Well there you go.
Your students, they live in little *** holes,
You hear everything, you hear your neighbours fighting, farting,
There's nothing, christ. There's a pair of socks, An old mattress on the floor,
And an iPhone and a portable computer.
Just that once a year they pile eight of them into a car And they go pass a week for spring break in Florida.
They don't live in houses with swimming pools.
No. They don't have much.
They go back to school, they go into debt to be able to study.
"Youth of today," man, let it go. *** jealousy, enough.
You know what's funny, the average student, coming out of university
has loans equal to what baby boomers paid for a house.
But no house, get it?
Out of university with $30,000 of debt.
Christ, in the 80's, you got a house for that.
With a driveway and a lawn, for ***'s sake.
So now you really want that university fees go up, and up, and up.
Good place for the government to be. One day it takes $5000 per semester to go to school.
Well no problem. Thirty, forty thousand dollars of debt, Some people won't do it anymore.
But some will continue to go.
Rich anglophone kids, they'll keep going to McGill,
They'll be able to do it.
But do you know what rich McGill students do, when they finish med school?
They go practice in the the U.S.! Because they make more money.
There are going to be no doctors, ***. Good idea?
The little guy who lives in out in the country and who has to come live in Montreal to study,
and has to borrow money to pay rent on top of borrowing for tuition,
in addition to his student loans...
"They're rich, They got it all, the youth of today." Yeah, right, they got it all.
"OK, and now we have to send in the army, now. "Because these protests, you know, you know..."
You in your Lazy Boy in your house in the suburbs, watching this on TV, it disturbs you exactly that much.
If someone were to be killed, at least this would be done with and we could get back to watching gossip channels.
"We'll watch Love Story."
At any rate the media do such *** coverage of these protests, that, seriously, don't even bother.
"There was widespread damage in Montreal over the weekend." Widespread damage? Three window panes were broken.
"An ATM at the Bank of Montreal was vandalised, two windows broken."
Right, because the Bank of Montreal has no money to repair the windows.
Meanwhile, 40 or 50 young people thrown down to the asphalt, face down,
pepper spray in their faces, hit with truncheons, girls of 20 years old,
but Oh, the broken glass.
The other panes of glass left behind to mourn. "They burned three traffic cones."
Every person in Montreal wants to burn those *** traffic cones, There's 20 on every block.
And another:
That 17 year old girl, "she shouldn't have been at a protest."
Right. Shouldn't have been at a protest. LIKE YOU,
You who have completely let go of your democratic rights
Who has been so *** all your life that you don't even feel it when you get *** again,
So you think that because you yourself have no *** courage and nothing to believe in of your own,
because firstly in 20 years you're DEAD, and you don't care,
So young people, they should be just as lazy as you.
And she shouldn't have been at a protest. For the love of God that's weak. Seriously.
Don't put your *** onto the next generation
and don't expect the youth of tomorrow, the ones who will take care of you, the ones who will staff your old folks home,
to have the same rotten values as you, and only care about getting rich,
or care about making rich even richer,
COME ON.
Talking about media. COME ON.
Talking about media.
Journal de Montreal, La Presse, Come on. There's a survery.
66% of Quebceois are for the Emergency Law. Well, yes.
Let me explain something to you.
Journal de Montreal belongs to [Pierre] Péladeau. Charest gives this guy a hockey arena,
so he can put a hockey team in it and make money off it.
La Presse belongs to [Paul] Desmarais. Desmarais paid to have Charest elected.
This is objective coverage? Go onto to the internet from time to time,
instead of one image of a broken window,
you'll see young people being *** right over.
But if you insist on thinking this is a question of money,
This whole tuition debate, seriously,
Look at this here puppet show.
Here we have protesting students... Ooh.
Meanwhile, with this hand, I go into your pocket,
I take your wallet. OOP! We make a preliminary offer.
We'll increase the fees over seven years instead of five years. They refused it.
Meanwhile, Hydro Quebec sells gas rights on the island of Anticosti to Petroliat.
There are three directors from Hydro Quebec who have been hired on to Petroliat.
We don't know the terms of the deal. 30 billion barrels of gaz at $100 a barrel...
Oh we make a second offer to students,
A committee of nuts, like 4 students and 39 suits
We'll study university expenses and if we can find any money, maybe we'll give some back for tuition fee increases.
Now, during this time we have the Plan Nord [government initiative to develop Quebec's north].
At the same time as we ask students to pay $300 million more for tuition,
because the government has no money
we will spend $300 million to construct a private road to the North
so that a company from China can come to extract diamonds,
put them on a boat, and ship them back to China to be processed.
Can't do that here, we don't have the expertise to do that here.
The government will invest $40 billion over the next 20 years for the Plan Nord.
$40 billion to create or maintain 20,000 jobs.
That, if you know how to count to ten, that comes out to $2 million per job.
That's like if the government gave $50,000 per year for 40 years to 20,000 people.
You could send everyone a cheque for that amount and leave the north alone.
***, they're going to make the oceans into acid, They're going to ruin it ALL
and in the end we won't make a cent.
Oh and we have to offer them electricity at a steep discount,
Because otherwise it wouldn't be possible to mine the raw materials.
Raw materials. Listen, abour 3/4 of raw materials, there's an end date on all of them.
In about 15 years, 20, 30 year, there will be no gas, no uranium, no lead,
so if you leave them there, the raw materials, the price will go up.
In 5 years, in 10 years, when uranium is up at I don't know how much per ton,
they will PAY to come get it, they will PAY to build a road,
and THAT is what we mean by leaving something for a future generation.
So we know what's up with mining.
It's always worked pretty well.
Gagnonville, Schefferville, Murdochville,
We're gonna be giving money to these people for ever.
So we invest to create 20,000 jobs in the north. But half of it will be foreign workers coming to work
Because we lack skilled labour here.
So we'll do a fly-in, fly-out, with people from China, Mexico,
who come in, three months, take this pay, and take it back to their own countries.
That is *** awesome.
Instead of helping young people to find jobs, better jobs,
We will subsidize the resource sector.
*** nice work, society.
No money for education. "$200 per year, why are they protesting?"
They're protestingto make a better world.
Because the world that you're leaving them is a shitpile of corruption, of ***, and of inequality,
and when you are twenty years old, you find that that is ABHORRENT,
that we have gotten to this point, that we got so *** that we consider this is normal.
Rampant corruption in the construction industry, meh.
Plan Nord, already smelling fishy...meh.
"Ah but the youth, ***,
"Our kids, our youth, protesting for a better world than we had. There is no question."
So, at last, when people explain to me, that between the right and the left everyone has their point of view,
Me, my problem is, I've listened to a lot of opinions.
I have done research. I have read up on it.
When we talk from the left, we talk about society. If we make this investment, we can have this in return.
Listen, I'm not some crazy leftist.
Giving syringues to drug addicts, Look: No.
Free-for-all, free-for-all tuition, I'm not for it.
You'll say, maybe that I'm naive that way. But I think you have to something, because, sadly,
Because seriously if it's free, you go to school, you get a Bachelor of Arts, then a Bachelor of...
I'm not some marxist, nihilist,
But the right, their proposals, it's always like, "I'm not gonna pay for that, for that, me, me,"
I have yet to have someone propose opinions of the right that hang together.
I don't know why.
An intelligent proposal from the right that really says,
Look, SERIOUSLY, we have to raise tuition rates, because, we are on the verge of bankruptcy now, An intelligent proposal from the right that really says,
Look, SERIOUSLY, we have to raise tuition rates, because, we are on the verge of bankruptcy now,
Man, not to tell you bad news but We're pretty much on the verge of bankruptcy right about now,
We've been on the verge of bankruptcy for about 20 years.
Me, I went to college and I came out and met the riot police because they tried to raise tuition rates back in the 90's too.
Back then they said, "We're tired of paying for this, Figure it out for yourselves."
The discourse has really evolved.
Now it's, "We don't want to pay for this, figure it out on your own, and on top of that youth of today have iPhones."
It's nice to see that we've made progress. *** shameful.