To: Virginia
From: Jean-Manuel Desjardins, Chef des Milices Nationales
For over a decade, we have stood and fought for our lands. Just last August, your airstrikes killed my predecessor and mentor, Martin LaTournier, alongside many other Métis patriots. Given your rather extensive
involvement in our lands, I am surprised that you are not more familiar with our present situation. Alain Picard's Syndicalist Army is broken and rife with desertion- the only thing that has prevented me from destroying them myself is our common enemy, the occupier. Were democracy to be permitted today, it would not be the broken Syndicalist movement that would seize victory.
Democracy- hah. Do not presume to speak of yourself as some protector of representative government. In the last elections, you banned the incumbent Syndicalists for their supposed crimes against Virginia, you banned their only legitimate opposition,
Les Éspritistes, for their political viewpoints, leaving no force to govern the bastard 'Métis Republic' and bringing us into the sorry state you see today.
I repeat my predecessor's ultimatum to you. Leave the lands of the Métis, and remove all pretenses of holding any form of authority over us. We shall rebuild on our own terms.
-Jean-Manuel Desjardins