A few members have dared to poll me recently about my political views in the light of the upcoming federal election.
Needless to say, I am a man of conviction and as long as CGI can pursue relentlessly profitable growth I will be a very happy CEO. Having said that, the man pictured above gives me the creeps and reminds me that we should move our headquarter to a more sensible place like Bay Street where business is not treated on such an emotional level.
Meet Komrade Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Quebecois, a political party on the federal scene whose goal is to act like a separatist provincial party.
Look at him. If you were the casting director of Silence of The Lambs, you'd kick Hopkins out of his trailer and give the lead role to this guy without talking to legal first.
Look at him again. Tell me honestly that you don't see a radical, short-tempered man that reminds you of a certain early 20th century European dictator. Draw a short mustache on your screen. Get it, now?
Look at what Wiki has to say about him: In his youth, he advocated communism, and held membership in the Workers' Communist Party of Canada (WCP), a Maoist group. Duceppe later claimed that his three-year membership in the WCP was a mistake brought on by a search for absolute answers.
Communism? Maoist organization? Absolute answers? Does it sound like deja vu to you? This why I call these bozos and their provincial counterparts the Blue Commies, they are trying to reinvent what the Bolsheviks did a hundred years ago, except their message is more subtle this time. This what the post-war marketing brought, more insidious ways to plant political ideas into the minds of citizens. Goal is the same, but Komrade Duceppe thinks he's way smarter than Vladimir and Joseph. I'd pay a hundred bucks to see what's on the wall of his home office.
Duceppe even went so far as to intentionally spoil his 1980 sovereignty-association referendum ballot arguing that Québécois should instead focus their efforts on staying united to fight their common capitalist enemy.
Common capitalist enemy? Ok, my mind is made up. Put this guy in charge of the country, and he would nationalize CGI, kill all outsourcing and consulting deals with capitalist countries (er, that means 99.9% of our business) and probably shove a powerful union down our throat to add insult to the injury. He might ban Windows as well and come up with a government-built OS, who knows what these wackos are capable of.
Next time you meet one the Bloc minion at the grocery store and he/she wants to shake your hand in order to get your vote, ask him/her about the communist state of mind of Komrade Duceppe. Let me know how it goes, I think it will be extremely funny.
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