WHO MURDERED DUPLESSIS, SAUVÉ AND JOHNSON ?
Christopher Richard Wade Dettling (2013)
The teaching of the concept is the inescapable lesson of history. Hegel
The Québec Regime in Ottawa and Empire of Paul Desmarais 1968–2006 (the Québécocracy), comes from the government of Louis St. Laurent (Saint Laurent) crushed under the hammer blows of John Diefenbaker and Westernism: From out of the struggles for power in Québec between the followers of Louis St. Laurent and Maurice Duplessis.
With the Liberals out of power in Ottawa, the creatures of Louis St. Laurent are out of work and prospects: They set their sights upon Québec and Maurice Duplessis. In the war against the Triple Alliance they are assisted by the federal Liberal opposition in their endeavors to destroy the Union nationale: According to their schemes, the road back to Ottawa leads through Québec with the destruction of Franco-Canadian conservatism.
After the sudden deaths of Premier Maurice Duplessis and Premier Paul Sauvé, the Union nationale is struck down in 1960 by the Jean Lesage Liberals. Now the road is open for the return of Liberalism in Ottawa under Pearson: John Diefenbaker is defeated in 1963 under the blows of the Pearson-Lesage combine, and Mike takes power. But the Union nationale is not very easily destroyed in Québec after so many years in office, which means Mike’s hold on power is weak and rests upon uncertain foundations: A strong and resurgent conservatism under Robarts and Johnson could still end the half century Liberal stranglehold upon Ottawa.
With the sudden death of Premier Daniel Johnson (the elder) the stage is set for the demise of Franco-Canadian conservatism in the rise of the Parti Québecois and the anti-federalist movement: Jean Chrétien and René Lévesque have arrived upon the scene.
“Jean-Louis Lévesque, the Montréal financier from far-away Gaspé, ‘knew first-hand the difficulties that awaited a French-Canadian in business, and therefore he took the young Paul Desmarais under his wing, and led him into the realm of French-Canadian high finance’ … the Lévesque which most Canadians have heard about is the great orator, René, the Minister of Natural Resources of the Province of Québec. Jean-Louis Lévesque is his wealthy distant cousin, who owns the largest financial empire in Québec.” ¹
The seeds are sowed: Rational political and economic order in Canada is undone.
Nearly a half century will pass before Canada rises once again upon the seat of rational political and economic order. Québec will be deeply divided into federalist and anti-federalist camps, and the economy will be gutted. Henceforth the vote will be split in half, which is the true and real basis upon which rests the Québec Regime in Ottawa and the Empire of Paul Desmarais: After fifty years of political and economic irrationalism, the Canadian financial, commercial and industrial heartland will be in shambles.
“We really are sick and tired of our Nigger Kings: I wonder if we could borrow a Sultan or Colonel from the Arabs.” ² Thus, as their counterparts in the Francophonie and Communauté, the rulers of the Québec Regime in Ottawa and their families are enriched beyond their wildest dreams. But the Napoleonic and French revolutionary conception of right is not the conception of right found in the Magna Carta and Constitution of the United States of America: Modern freedom is not Global freedom.
“When philosophy paints its grey in grey, then has a shape of life grown old.” HEGEL
ENDNOTES
1. Jules Bélanger, Jean–Louis Lévesque: La montée d’un Gaspésien aux sommets des affaires, Saint–Laurent, Fides, 1996, 138–166: “Le financier Lévesque, venu à Montréal de sa lointaine Gaspésie, ‘savait par expérience quelles difficultés attendaient un Canadian français [sic] désirant se lancer en affaires et il pris en quelque sorte le jeune et fougueux Desmarais sous as tutelle en lui ouvrant les portes des cercles financiers francophones du Québec … Le Lévesque dont la plupart des Canadiens ont entendu parler est le volubile orateur, René, le ministre des Resources naturelles du Québec. Le riche, c’est Jean–Louis, un lointain cousin qui contrôle le plus grand empire financier du Québec.’”
See also: “Paul Desmarais was the friend and backer of Lester B. Pearson.” Anne-Marie Gingras, Médias et démocratie: Le grand malendendu, 3ième édition, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2009, 113: “[Paul Desmarais] a été ami et supporter de Lester B. Pearson.”
2. René Lévesque, “Pas plus bêtes que les arabes,” Cité Libre, 11.27(Mai, 1960), 18: “On a vraiment l’air fin, avec nos rois nègres. Je me demande si on ne pourrait pas emprunter aux Arabes un de leurs sultans ou même de leurs colonels.”
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