The Rover: the CAQ jumps several sharks

Even for a government that has a casual relationship with the truth, lying about schoolchildren seems especially rotten.

Our government isn’t drunk on power.

We’d be able to manage that sort of excess in these parts. Quebec politics tend to unfold like a rapidly deteriorating Thursday night at the pub. It starts off hopeful — this time you’ll be reasonable — and then, sure enough, you’re vomiting on union workers and texting nonsense to your boss at 2:34 a.m.

(True story, I…