St-Pierre Plamondon and independence | “Violent” remarks, deplores Pablo Rodriguez

(Ottawa) The Quebec lieutenant of the Trudeau government criticizes PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon for having used “violent” terms in his argument in favor of Quebec independence. Fortunately, if we want, this type of speech has the potential to undermine the sovereignist approach, reassures Pablo Rodriguez.

“What worries me is for social cohesion. “That we introduce elements as violent as deportations, executions, which relate to dark moments in our history, hundreds of years ago, I find that very worrying,” he said in the melee press release, Wednesday.

“For someone who says they want to do politics differently, I find this deeply disappointing, and even worrying. Execution ? Deportation? There, we arrive at another level of language, we introduce terms of violence,” continued Minister Rodriguez.

The good news, in a way, is that this type of speech “will harm the sovereignist cause”, let down the man who is also Minister of Transport. Rather than demanding an apology from the PQ leader, he invited its cousin in Ottawa, the Bloc Québécois, to speak out.

” Oh come on ! », Exclaimed on several occasions the Minister of Innovation, François-Philippe Champagne. “When we look at Quebec, we look at Quebec forward. I don’t look in the rearview mirror, I look in the windshield,” he argued.

New Brunswick MP René Arsenault, whose attempt to make the oath of allegiance to the British Crown optional failed, said he had not heard Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s comments. But when it comes to Quebec gaining independence, “let’s hope that never happens,” he said.

Prime Minister Trudeau breezed past journalists at the end of his caucus meeting. He did not stop in front of the cameras to answer questions concerning Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, which he nevertheless heard.

PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon brandished historical references such as colonial rule and the reign of Pierre Elliott Trudeau in Ottawa as arguments in favor of the need to make Quebec a sovereign country on Tuesday.

He drew a parallel between the federal government’s current policies and “the long history of Quebec in Canada and the sad history of francophones and indigenous peoples in this regime of colonial origin.”

Because “all of this is in continuity”, and “Justin Trudeau is in continuity with his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau”, which means that there would be, according to the leader of the Parti Québécois, intentions behind all of this.

“It is really forgetting recent history, such as the unilateral patriation of the Canadian Constitution without Quebec, to forget the work of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, to forget what Francophones experienced in the deportations, the executions, the ban on having education in French,” he thundered.