When Michaëlle Jean became Secretary General of La Francophonie, her credibility was almost nil in her own country.

On this side of the ocean, it was clearly only the members of the Harper and Couillard governments to find that it made sense.

With this support, the former Governor General of Canada was elected. And since then, she continues the escapades that have earned the disenchantment of his fellow citizens to the respected ex-journalist: haughty attitude, monarchical conception of his person and reckless spending, especially for the benefit of her husband, a former revolutionary very invested with his status viceroy.

When it happened here, at the limit, it was funny. It only made more opaque the aura of obsolescence that surrounds the function that drives you crazy.

Embarrassing

There, it becomes embarrassing. Always convinced of being above elected officials, Radio-Canada’s former passionaria ridicules those who supported it.

After indignantly denouncing the half a million dollars invested in the renovations of her apartment, she tried to hide a cruise on a vintage boat for young people from French-speaking countries had cost more million dollars. Quebec and Ottawa had opposed the adventure costing more than $ 400,000.

The case revealed by Le Journal , the husband of Michaëlle Jean called it a lie, he who benefits from a driver paid by the OIF . However, this week we published an email from an organization executive confirming that the project bill could still increase, as expected, from the beginning, it seems, to several people in positions of responsibility. .

Ms. Jean, who has never received the vote of a single citizen, seems to have been contaminated by the practices of dictatorships, where we do not account to the people for the use we make of their money. When we know that it was already on the expenditure, it is problematic.

It is all the more unfortunate that she has succeeded Senegalese Abdou Diouf, a man of great dignity, who has guided his country on the path of political pluralism, to the point of making it one of the democracies the healthiest on the African continent. With Michaëlle Jean, the Francophonie regresses.

So far, the outgoing secretary general had no competitor for re-election in the fall. This is no longer the case. Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, wants to confront him. It would be interesting to see a woman from the African continent in this position, especially as it could bring closer to the French-speaking world the country of President Paul Kagamé, more and more turned towards English. Already, she has obtained the support of France.

Faced with such a situation, Philippe Couillard and Christine Saint-Pierre have no choice. Since we can not count on Justin Trudeau, who sees his own role as that of a mascot, the Quebec government must stop supporting Michaëlle Jean, and respond to its own citizens.

The credibility of the International Organization of La Francophonie in this country and Quebec is at stake in the only forum where he can speak as of right.

Source: Journal de Montreal