Quebecers are fed up with the wokism advanced in the National Assembly by Québec solidaire for 10 years which leads to ideas imposed in our institutions, plagues PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
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“There comes a time when all elected officials are fed up with this. Fed up with intellectual dishonesty. Fed up with these accusations, the intimidation and this victimization,” declared the PQ leader this morning in the National Assembly.
Following the Haroun Bouazzi saga, the leader of the Parti Québécois accuses Québec solidaire of being the standard bearer of wokism in the National Assembly.
“Wokism is a movement, strictly speaking, anti-democratic, which refuses dialogue and which uses intimidation and disinformation to impose its agenda. And people are fed up, me, the first […] It is embodied here, in my opinion, by Québec solidaire in all of its work for 10 years,” declared the PQ leader.
Impacts in institutions
Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon makes a link with academic freedom which is being undermined in CEGEPs, as reported by the Journal on Wednesday morning.
“There are teachers who cannot say that an African country and certain African countries are less well off and less rich than countries in North America. And, they don’t do that, because they are called racist,” he argued.
Note that the report also mentions CEGEP students who are opposed to reading feminist works.
The PQ leader also directly targets the parliamentary leader of QS. According to him, Gabriel Nadeau Dubois implies “that Québec solidaire warns of the racism of Quebecers” by affirming, for example, that the PQ transforms independence into a referendum against immigration.
“All this to impose concepts which intellectually do not hold water and which have also led to certain excesses in our society,” points out the leader of the PQ.
Wokism “is an obsession” for Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, replied solidarity worker Vincent Marissal. According to him, St-Pierre Plamondon reads the chronicles of Mathieu Bock-Côté a lot. GND preferred not to respond to the PQ leader’s attacks.
But his colleague Manon Massé asked PSPP to stop trying to divide the population, while the female spokesperson, Ruba Ghazal, maintains that the PQ leader is in bad faith and that he should think about his comments.
Apologies demanded
On Tuesday, elected officials settled scores with solidarity deputy Haroun Bouazzi, faced with his refusal to clearly apologize for his comments on alleged racism in the National Assembly.
Several MPs returned to the charge on Wednesday, demanding a real apology from Maurice Richard, who declared that the mechanisms of racism are at work every day in the Quebec parliament.
“All options are on the table,” said government parliamentary leader Simon Jolin-Barrette. “Clearly Mr. Bouazzi, yesterday, did not do the thing he should have done, which was to apologize to the National Assembly, to his colleagues. Because with the words he made, he accuses all Quebecers. He called all Quebecers racist,” he said.
The main person concerned is absent from the National Assembly in order to rest.
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