The “anger” of opponents of wokism has finally erupted in the Quebec Parliament, rejoices the leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, the day after the reproaches addressed to the elected representative of Québec solidaire (QS) Haroun Bouazzi after a speech on the alleged rampant racism in the National Assembly.
“Yesterday, you felt a dull anger in the precincts of the National Assembly” against this “properly anti-democratic movement”: wokism, he underlined during a press briefing on Wednesday.
This is neither more nor less a “turning point” in the fight against wokism, according to Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon, who says he has a “list” of “around fifteen examples where [M. Bouazzi] accuses everyone of being racist without being subsequently called to order by QS.
Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon saw in the motions presented Tuesday by the PQ, the Coalition Avenir Québec and the Liberal Party of Quebec, which denounced the public outings of Mr. Bouazzi according to which the debates in the National Assembly contribute “all days” to “the construction of this Other […] and its culture which, by definition, would be dangerous and inferior”, the expression of “fed up with wokism”.
Little Robert defines Wokism as a “current of thought of American origin which denounces, sometimes in an uncompromising manner, the injustices and discrimination suffered by minorities”.
In the eyes of the PQ leader, wokism is “an approach that has been generalized in Québec solidaire for at least 10 years, which consists of distorting the words of others”, of “distorting reality to organize trials of intent”, to carry out “campaigns of intimidation with “phobic”, “racist”, “intolerant” words” and, in doing so, to “contrai[ndre] people who have a disagreement to silence”, then to “victimization”. “The entire population is fed up with this wokism. And elected officials from all parties, except Québec Solidaire, have had enough of being called names,” he argued.
PSPP obsessed with wokesaccording to Marissal
Solidarity MP Vincent Marissal has difficulty explaining the “relentlessness”, even the “obsession” of Paul St-Pierre Plamondon for the wokes. “Me, the war of labels is the affair that I hate the most in politics, it leads nowhere”, he affirmed, after having asked the journalists around him: “I have -you look like one woke ? »
Furthermore, Mr. Marissal says he spent “the worst day of [sa] political life” Tuesday, when the National Assembly admonished Haroun Bouazzi: a “spectacle […] painful “. “I don’t want to relive that,” he said, calling for “maturity,” “work,” “professionalism” from his colleagues so that they “stop dispersing themselves into sideshows which are not related. “A message to all MPs on the planet: when you put your party in trouble, it doesn’t help anyone! »
QS co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal invited MPs from other political parties to “move on” after severely reprimanding Haroun Bouazzi with motions, among other things. “Yesterday, they spoke out, it was fair game,” she said.
For his part, Haroun Bouazzi preferred to stay away from Parliament Hill on Wednesday and Thursday. Consequently, it is Vincent Marissal and Christine Labrie who will comment on the update on the economic and financial situation in Quebec from the Minister of Finance, Eric Girard, on Thursday.
Mr. Bouazzi expressed regret on Tuesday for the “clumsiness” of his comments on supposed racism in the National Assembly, but still refused to apologize to all the deputies. “Mr Bouazzi has gone too far. He insulted members of that Assembly. He insulted the institution itself, and that would have deserved a public apology at the microphone, here, in the Assembly, and an unequivocal apology on the substance of his remarks, and not on his clumsiness,” argued Liberal elected official André Fortin on Wednesday, adding that the member for Maurice-Richard “still has the possibility of doing it.”
