Goodbye, fair GND

Moving on: GND
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The unthinkable has happened: Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, quite possibly the dreamiest young man ever to act as spokesperson for a hard-line student association (<3), has left CLASSE.

His sole regret in abandoning his post is doing so while mortal enemy Jean Charest is in power. Where do we go from here?

Well, the obvious conclusion is that GND will enter the political fray — even if he doesn’t think he will, Quebec politics have a way of sucking up souls. Listen, GND (is it OK that we call you that?), when we were your age, we never wanted to do what other people told us to do. Yet here we are.

While CLASSE began sorting itself out and Jean Charest reiterated his commitment to making sure students can get back to class, François Legault announced a new educational initiative that is sure to make him the province’s next political heartthrob: an extra hour of school each day for high schoolers. Under the CAQ, high school would be a 9-to-5 gig, and kids 12-17 would become working stiffs.

Adding an hour to the school day may be a counterintuitive means of cutting the dropout rate, but Legault may be onto something when he says it would give parents a welcome reprieve from their angsty teenage children. Is he forgetting, though, that those kids may actually, you know, vote in a couple of years?

Pauline Marois, meanwhile, is busy telling Jean Charest that the company he keeps smells bad, emphasizing that the PQ will encourage economic development inQuebec by directing the province’s investments in-house. But if the PQ’s political deodorant works the way regular deodorant does — and we bet it does — you can’t cover up bad smells for long. ■