You have to have a whole head around your head not to recognize that you have gone too far in your comments. It would be so simple for Quebec Solidaire MP Haroun Bouazzi to tell us: “Sorry, the words went beyond my thoughts. I don’t believe that Quebecers are racist.” We would forgive him. Because we are conciliatory, not resentful for a penny, and it can happen to everyone to put their foot in their mouth. But there, far from apologizing, he adds another layer.
The QS MP is very arrogant when he says he has not formally called his colleagues racist. Judge for yourselves:
“We see, unfortunately, 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, who is indigenous, and of his culture which, by definition, would be dangerous or inferior.
He would therefore be witnessing, on a daily basis, a great enterprise of racial construction? This is exactly what Mr. Bouazzi is telling us here. If this isn't calling someone racist, I want someone to explain it to me. Either he is having fun at our expense, or he is deliberately fanning the embers of intolerance.
Systemic racism
The Commission on Human Rights and Youth Rights defines systemic racism as the “social production of racial inequality”, the result of the economic, cultural and political organization of a society. This is Mr. Bouazzi's construction of the other.
This therefore brings out the idea of systemic racism that would be practiced in Quebec, by throwing members of the political class under the bus.
Because the QS deputy scratches in passing certain government ministers, like Lionel Carmant and Christian Dubé, who, he says, blame immigrants for their problems at the DPJ and in the health network. But it is also to all Quebecers, including his own voters in the riding of Maurice-Richard, that the member for QS takes the liberty of lecturing. And we can't let that go.
Down with intolerance
It's enough to be called racists who are resistant to others. This is not only insulting, it is wrong. I am well placed to recall that Quebec is a wonderful welcoming land. We have chosen to live in a secular state. This does not make us xenophobes. Quebecers are neither worse nor better than others. We are like every other society in the world: imperfect, but deeply committed to the values of justice, inclusion and respect.
Let's listen to these diverse families who have fled extremism and who are concerned about the rise of certain radical discourses that are infiltrating our schools. They do not want a society that feeds on the hatred of others. We all want our children to grow up far from toxic ideologies. The real fight is against intolerance, whatever its origin.
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