The French call one of these 'schemes' a 'projet'.
We suffer a lot of schemes and projets in Canada; that's one of the 'benefits' of bilingualism.
They're not good ideas in any language.
They can scheme to their hearts content, but I'm sure that if we, the citizens, scheme to thwart their scheme we are guilty of some heinous crime that would, at the very least, turn us into some sort of demonized pariahs.
Sort of like telling liberals you're a Freeper.