The foundation where Quebec Solidaire MP Haroun Bouazzi delivered a controversial speech dissociates itself from the comments made by the elected official.
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“We explicitly tell guests to refrain from taking any partisan position and to favor cohesive speeches,” explained the Club Avenir Foundation in a press release on Thursday.
“However, the speech of the member for Québec solidaire moved away from this framework and the instructions that we had established. We disapprove of this discrepancy,” the non-profit organization added.
As a reminder, Mr. Bouazzi highlighted a lack of consistency among provincial elected officials regarding their speeches concerning the secularism of the State.
“It is all the more important today as we unfortunately see – and God knows I see this in the National Assembly every day – the construction of this Other, of this Other who is North African, who is Muslim, who is Black or Indigenous, and his culture which, by definition, would be dangerous or inferior,” said the member for Maurice-Richard.
Haroun Bouazzi also deplored during his speech the fact that the religion of the protagonists was mentioned in the case of the Bedford school, but not in that of the sexual scandal at the rehabilitation center for young people with adjustment difficulties in the City. -des-Prairies.
The elected official, however, qualified his remarks later on X.
“I never said that the people elected to the National Assembly were racist. I regret that colleagues interpreted it that way,” he said on the social network on Thursday.
