Châteauguay, March 4, 2026 – There’s a gaping hole right in the middle of the Pont de la Sauvagine. Not a crack, not a puddle — a real, honest-to-god hole, like a truck decided to take a swan dive into the river. The MTQ closed a lane, slapped down some orange cones (classic move), and promised “work will begin quickly.” We all know what “quickly” means in Québec: 2028 at the earliest. But let’s be serious for a second. Québec simply doesn’t have the money to fix this bridge properly, let alone rebuild anything that lasts. We’re talking about a government already juggling: Billions in overruns on the REM and the third link (still not built), Roads that crumble faster than they get paved, Daycares closing because there’s no staff and the ones who stay are underpaid, And mines being sold off to foreign companies while the royalties stay laughably low. They’ll probably announce an “innovative financing plan” or a “public-private partnership” for the A-26 or whatever phantom highway number they’re dreaming up next. Translation: more debt, more contracts for friends, and in ten years we’ll be writing the same article about another bridge falling apart. Meanwhile, we’re selling our resources like we can grow them back tomorrow morning. Lithium, graphite, rare earths — handed out to Chinese, Australian, or American multinationals at bargain-basement prices, with royalties so small economists laugh out loud. The day we actually need those materials for our own batteries or infrastructure, we’ll be buying them back at full market price from the same companies we gave them to. This is Québec genius in 2026: A hole in a bridge, A hole in the budget, A hole in economic sovereignty, And orange cones to hide it all. The worst part? We’ll hear the same speech again: “It’s temporary, we’re working hard, the resilience of Quebeckers, blah blah blah.” No. It’s not temporary. It’s structural. It’s the result of a system that would rather sell the future at a discount than build it. So next time you drive over a bridge in Québec and feel the structure shake, remember: It’s not just concrete that’s missing. It’s spine. And no A-26, no new partnership with China, no orange cones are going to fix that. Tabarnak. We deserve better. But we keep paying for less.