It has been officially called and introduced in the National Assembly in Quebec City as the Charter of Quebec values.

Others still prefer the label the Charter of Secularism.

I believe it should be properly renamed the Rodeo Clown Charter.

The Parti Quebecois’ willingness to ban any religious symbols worn by their public employees keeps reminding me of the clown that desperately tries to distract the bull and stand in as a target after a rider got bucked off the animal’s back.

It seems that anything would do to amuse us and hide the fact that the so-called Quebec model is currently cracking at every single corner.

Last week, we found out that the province has lost 45,400 jobs since the beginning of the year — while the rest of the country created 146,400 new jobs.

We were also told that Quebec won’t reach a zero deficit as promised since there are over $1 billion missing in revenues.

This week, we learn that the Quebec government is burying an important report on the future of our pension plans.

From 2007 to 2012, the cumulated deficit of Quebec’s pension plans went from

$4.5 billion to over $40.6 billion.

But, with all the clowning around, who even notices?

The fact that our current governments are provoking the worst intergenerational injustice ever doesn’t seem to matter.

The real priority that must be debated right now involves a public employee wearing a cross on her necklace.

That’s the emergency.

Among other news items this week, QMI Agency revealed that the great project of developing our natural resources potential north of the 49th parallel is evaporating.

Of the 11 biggest projects already announced by Jean Charest’s former Liberal government, over half of them are now on ice or being significantly downsized.

We are talking about a few dozen billion dollars of private investments vanishing.

The fact that the PQ promised to double-down the royalties on mining while the price of many resources went down created too much insecurity and instability.

But, again, how irrelevant.

For the PQ government, there are much more important problems to solve than caring about the creation of a few thousand well-paid jobs in regions that desperately need it.

A physician wearing a kippah might be assisting a Quebec patient as we speak.

Thank God, sorry, I mean thank Pauline Marois, the separatists have their true national sense of priorities.

Polls conducted released earlier this week indicated that Quebecers are evenly split right now on the PQ’s charter — 43% are in favour while 42% are against it, pitting urban centres against the regions.

All the kerfuffle because the PQ have put on makeup, red noses, flamboyant cowboy hats and wave red flags for a rodeo show.

Will the bull of popular opinion keep being distracted by the bright and flashy Charter of Quebec values or will it raise its charging head to see the economic hole into which our political elites are throwing us?