The avowedly non-partisan group of a dozen, which also includes two former cabinet ministers and leading figures from industry and academe, proposes short-term elimination of the provincial debt mainly through substantial increases in electricity rates and massive investment in education, financed in part by sharply increased tuition fees.

Also proposed is major tax reform that targets consumption more than income, and a guaranteed minimum income plan to reduce the cumbersome bureaucracy required by today's array of social programs.

The manifesto warns if Quebec society refuses to accept such changes, it will fall victim to a demographic shock in the near future and risk becoming "the republic of the status quo, a fossil from the 20th century."

The group also offered a stinging criticism of the general reluctance to forsake old habits. "The slightest change to the way government functions, a bold project, the most timid call to responsibility or the smallest change in our comfortable habits, is met with an angry outcry and objections or, at best, indifference."

Isn't Lucy dead yet?

And it's not the separation that will help !

Voici le texte du manifeste : http://www.pourunquebeclucide.com/docum ... ifeste.pdf

Je suis plutôt d'accord avec les principes qui y sont énoncés.

Is there a way to translate that into English? Babelfish only lets you do 150 words at a time.