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Hmm, I wonder why Québec Premier François Legault thinks there's no housing crisis. I wonder where he gets his talking points... 
(Screenshot from fb Mtl landlords group)
A little thread below abt CORPIQ influence/power.
(Screenshot from fb Mtl landlords group)
A little thread below abt CORPIQ influence/power.
Landlords need to paint the existence of the housing crisis as a "left-wing" political lie in order to justify their actions. CORPIQ (landlord association) needs to constantly brainwash its own members, because otherwise small-time landlords would start to feel bad for tenants.
You actually see this conflict unfolding in some of the more centrist Mtl landlord groups, where there's a mix of political ideologies among landlords. Some of the less R-wing landlords r starting to rebel against CORPIQ propaganda, bcs even as landlords, they see that it's evil.
Funnily enough, the more R-wing landlord groups see these more centrist/mixed-ideology landlord groups as "communist landlord groups" which is obvs absurd, because a communist landlord is an oxymoron.
To justify its existence, CORPIQ needs to constantly scare its own members, vilify any tenant protection attempts, & even cover up the suffering of tenants by calling it a fabrication. Otherwise, landlords would stop paying CORPIQ to advocate for them, and that would end CORPIQ.
The article referenced at the beginning of this thread is a really great example of the propaganda CORPIQ disseminates to its members (& landlords that they're trying to recruit). It masterfully manipulates statistics to erase the housing crisis & paint landlords as victims.
Not only that, in this article, we can see CORPIQ doing the CAQ's (that's the R-wing party currently governing Québec) work for them. They attack both provincial & municipal opponents to the CAQ (Québec Solidaire & Projet Montréal), and end the article by praising the CAQ.
It shows us another level of the symbiotic relationship between CORPIQ and CAQ. CORPIQ campaigns for CAQ, & CAQ rewards CORPIQ by rendering the Régie/TAL (Québec's rental housing administrative tribunal) effectively toothless, letting landlords do whatever they like w/ impunity.
If you're curious to read the CORPIQ article yourself, here's the link: https://www.corpiq.com/fr/nouvelles/1862-inventer-une-crise-du-logement-pour-se-faire-reelire
I hope that you found this useful at least a little bit. I find that as an anglophone, it can be quite difficult to crack the nut of Québec politics. You definitely need a certain level of French to do it, & there are very few people explaining it in English.
That being said, even if it's difficult, I think it's a weak cop-out to not learn abt/just ignore Qc politics just because you're an Anglo. It's our responsibility as ppl on the Left to learn abt the workings of oppression around us, so that we can effectively fight it.
I know a lot of Anglos who've lived in Montreal for a decade who still keep up with Ontario politics more than Québec politics, just because it's so tough to find info on Qc poli in English. If that's you, I hope my threads can help push you to being more knowledgeable. 
