Friday, May 19, 2017

Montreal Cops Rain on Idiot Mayor's 375th Party

Nothing made me happier than to see Montreal's idiot mayor Denis Coderre getting his ass handed to him by Montreal cops who noisily crashed his 375th anniversary party on Tuesday, with a massive demonstration meant to embarrass the Mayor in his hour glory.

It's like having an ex show up to your wedding shouting expletives and telling all the guest exactly what a piece of dirt you are. Priceless!

At any rate, our unflappable mayor has decided that the police demonstration won't be allowed ruin his bridge lighting ceremony and so he has ordered a do-over.
Yup, a do-over and damn the expense.
The orgy of spending to celebrate the 375th anniversary of Montreal's founding is perhaps the most obscene display of political indifference since Marie Antoinette, when told that the peasants had no bread, replied that then they should eat brioche.

The police union didn't let up, placing this embarrassing billboard around the city,

"A Mayor that acts contemptibly towards his police for the last three years. that's what he celebrates"
What kind of a retarded notion is it to celebrate a 375th anniversary, anyway?
It's true that there's a lot of goofy commemorative days celebrated, like World Intellectual Property Day on April 26 or International No Diet Day  commemorated each May 6, but these ridiculous events don't cost a fortune to celebrate.
If Montreal can blow $200 million on the 375th, how much will they spend on the 400th in 25 years?

Yesterday a spokesman for the $40 million dollar project that will light up the Jacques Cartier bridge with a programmable multi-colour display explained how the colours will change to match the seasons from dark blue in winter to sizzling red in summer.
This from the design firm that organized the project;
"As the day’s first light appears on the horizon, the bridge comes to life in a dance of lights, gradually revealing that day’s colour.
Every hour at night, short 5- minute animations visually translate Montreal’s mood based on different types of daily data: the weather, traffic, news, major events, and more.
The bridge is then taken over by luminous movement, coloured
according to the hottest topic of the day in Montreal media:
Society -red, Environment -green, Technology -light blue, Business- grey, Sports- blue, Institutions- pink, Culture purple)"
Agggghhhh!!!!!!!!!       Honestly, have you ever heard of anything more moronic.

Now without going back and re-reading the text, can you tell me what the colour light-blue signifies?
The lights on the bridge will forever remind us what cretins we have running the city and if our idiot mayor thinks that citizens will devote time to deciphering the meaning of each colour presentation, he is even stupider than wood. 
The police did us a favour by ruining the day for the mayor, reminding us that the city is in a precipitous decline and like Nero who played his fiddle while Rome burned, Denis Coderre is ignoring the reality that Montreal has become.
I'm not usually a big fan of Richard Martineau of Le Journal de Montreal, but he followed up a television rant on the same subject with this piece in the newspaper. If you read French you can find the article HERE (thanks for the link Mamun.)
"Surprised that Toronto won the Infrastructure Bank head office and not Montreal......Really?

A THRILLING CITY
If this news has thrown you for a loop, it's because you haven’t been to Toronto recently.
It is one of the most exciting cities in North America. As exciting as New York.

Before, you say to yourselves: "Yeah, Toronto is the business capital of Canada, it certainly is big on business, but on culture, the city is dead. They're rolling up the sidewalks at 6 pm ... »
In the 1980s, maybe. Not anymore.

Toronto buries Montreal hands down.
In finance, in culture, in gastronomy.
The architecture is daring, the restaurants fantastic, the museums extraordinary.

Not to mention the TIFF, the Toronto Film Centre, which can make even the most demanding and hard-core film buffs drool.
Toronto moves, it percolates, it is driven!

Meanwhile, young entrepreneurs who work hard to open restaurants and businesses in underprivileged neighbourhoods in Montreal are have their storefronts attacked.
We don’t want rich people here! Go away, cursed capitalists!
Leave us with our hot dogs and our 5-10-15 stores!

HELLO PRIORITIES
The day before yesterday, I was discussing with a friend who regularly visits the Queen City for work.
Each time he lands at Billy Bishop Airport, located on a small island off of downtown Toronto, he takes the ferry and poof, finds himself in the heart of the action.
One day, while riding the ferry, he read that the city would soon open a tunnel that will connect the island directly with the downtown. The City posted the plans of the tunnel on the boat explaining its project ...
"Well, when I went back," he told me enthusiastically, "the tunnel was already finished!" Built, finished! There was no procrastination, no running around in circles "

But here ...
Let's face it: Montreal is a decrepit city, in decline.

And what are we doing? We are spending $ 40 million to light up the Jacques-Cartier bridge! As if it were a priority!
If you had cancer, would you consider getting your nose done by a plastic surgeon?
If the roof of your house fell into ruins, would you spend thousands of dollars to install Christmas lights on your gallery?
I do not think so.
Here we spread some super expensive icing on a cake that smells mouldy ...
A BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY

Obviously the Infrastructure Bank headquarters was given in Toronto, of course.
The opposite would be surprising.
We want to attract headquarters? Well, let's get on with it.
Let us create a climate conducive to investment, encourage entrepreneurs, stop putting sticks in the spokes of the wheels on everything that moves!

Audacity, audacity and even more audacity!
Instead of organizing a bogus 375th anniversary to give Quebeckers the impression that something is happening in Montreal, let us work hand in hand with the business community to get (finally) the city out of the hole!"
A pretty good screed, with the exception of the reference to Woolworth's dime stores, which all closed about twenty years ago, replaced with today's Dollar stores.

At any rate, in the meantime our mayor plays Mr. Dressup, living in a fantasy world of cosplay while our beloved city is left to rot from the inside out.

Montreal has become a bit of a joke, where carnivals, festivals and expensive parties are political devices meant to keep the masses at bay.
This isn't a new concept, throughout history leaders have employed this same device to keep a 'lid' on things.
Panem et Circenses. is a Latin phrase, literally meaning "bread and circuses," supposedly coined by Juvenal and describing the cynical formula of the Roman emperors for keeping the masses content with ample food and entertainment.

and that is where we are.....

7 comments:

  1. In terms of getting things built quickly, I think it's partly a case of the grass appearing greener. We've been dithering for decades about building subways and are only now starting to see some progress. Renovate Union Station? That'll be 5,6, 7 years but who knows? Do we fix the Gardiner Expressway or tear it down? Let's do yet another study while the cost of either option continues to skyrocket. Montreal has politicians and Toronto has them too and they're all more concerned with keeping their place at the public trough than they are in doing what they were elected to do.

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  2. I cant wait to see if and how long it will take to build the new REM train system. The Caisse is smoking some good stuff telling us 2020..wait until they deal with the construction unions and government bureaucracy and the usual shenanigans that go in our illustrious city.
    Was the 375th anniversary concocted to somehow upstage the 150th canada day celebrations..it seems awfully suspicious that they chose this year of all years to have this big party. Methinks some seperatists got the ball rolling on this one because they couldnt stand the thought of Montrealers celebrating Canada Day.

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    1. "it seems awfully suspicious that they chose this year of all years to have this big party."

      you're right it's quite a random year. but it's not a separatist plot. you think coderre is a separatist? no the thing is coderre is up for re election in november. so he thought hey why not use taxpayer's money to throw a huge party where i'll be able to show my face at every inauguration and every event throughout the year and take all credit for all this stuff when in reality i'm just another liberal crook? these liberal politicians always find a new way to cheat.

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  3. Believe me I am not a fan of the Lieberals. I am totally sick and tired of the corrupt Liberals as much as I am of the one platform seperatist obsessed PQ party. I am also scared out of my wits by Quebec Solidaire whose policies are from la la land and who would bankrupt this province so fast it would make your head spin.
    The only party that makes some sense to me now is the CAQ but sadly I think they are too right wing for most in this province who always expect a handout from the government.

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    1. I am moving towards your position. The CAQ deserves a chance probably not the 1st choice of most but let us start over...

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    2. " I am of the one platform seperatist obsessed PQ party."

      "obsessed"? weren't you aware that current pq promised no referendum if the next term? kinda proves you wrong here mate.

      i think you should try no-referendum pq instead of caq. the candidates and potential ministers are way way higher quality. they are separatist, so it means they will want to really make things better for you and for all. think about it. contrary to caq or liberals, whose purpose apart from exchanging donations for favors is impossible to figure out.

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  4. Would anyone else have gotten or been able to get a do-over?

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