Émile Bilodeau On the Plains 23rd June: Uncomfortable, PQ declines the invitation

The WP thus protests Pride against the appointment of singer Émile Bilodeau as host for the evening, because he mocked the party and expressed his strong opposition to Law 21 on the secularization of the state.

In a letter obtained by The Canadian Press, PQ spokeswoman Megan Berry Melanson sharply criticized the National Movement of Quebec City (MNQ) — responsible for organizing the National Day Parade — for having The lack of judgment, and thus contradicts the basic principles that they themselves have established That is, to be non-partisan.

The singer-songwriter has shown support for the Québec Solidaire (QS) on numerous occasions and the left-wing party has welcomed his appointment elsewhere.

PQ has often been invited to speak at The Saint-Jean Show, this great moment of nationalist and sovereign fervor, but this time she won’t.

Gaspé’s former PQ member, Berry Melanson, notes that she initially accepted the invitation, but then changed her mind because He was not comfortable pretending.

the MNQ It is believed, however, that the choice of Emile Bilodeau is to unite and nonpartisan. The commission played down the controversy that followed his appointment to the board He described it as a crunch in a glass of waterin an internal memo obtained by The Canadian Press.

Gold Méganne Perry Mélançon considers this choice to be Anything but monotheismto use his words.

When you want to bring people together, the first thing you do is show respect to others! she writes.

” Over the past few years, and especially in recent months, Émile Bilodeau has repeatedly shown disrespect for the Parti Québécois, its staff, its leader, members and activists. He also showed little respect for those who defended the country’s secularism. »

However, she is aware of that MNQ He has the right to make this decision and the artist is free to say and think what he wants.

So I am not at all calling for Emile Bilodeau to be withdrawn from the stage, from his role as host, and I am not at all asking for anyone to be withdrawn. By the way, he is 100% entitled to be on stage, and I wish him a very nice national holiday. This is a political choice entirely for the organizers.

She attacks fiercely MNQ Which, she says, goes completely against her goal of hosting a nonpartisan party.

[Le MNQ] However, he must have been aware of the extreme partisan and sometimes disdainful gestures and remarks made by Émile Bilodeau in support of another political formation through which he claims to be. His appointment as host is to his face a great contrast with the official message and with the unifying and nonpartisan goals it set MNQ. she says.

PQ Critics

Émile Bilodeau mocked Communist Party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon in his crusade to abolish oaths to the King of England by the elected members of the National Assembly.

He then described the three PQ members as The complainers from soiling their thumbsWhile that My friend Sol Zanetti, MP for QS, introduced a bill to abolish the obligation to take oaths before the Crown Prince. It is in fact the bill presented by the Minister of Democratic Institutions, Jean-François Roberge, that has been adopted.

In a tweet, Emile Bilodeau also said:The PQ must die in order for a sovereign opposition to go (sic)..

In last fall’s general election, the singer campaigned alongside QS spokesman Gabriel Nadeau-Dupois in Verdun.

Quebec Solidere spokesperson Gabriel Dubois-Nadoux with singer Emile Bilodeau, in fall 2022 (file photo)

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Photo: Radio-Canada/Danny Bellott

Earlier that year, he had called for a QS vote in the Marie-Victorian by-election.

Moreover, the artist described the state’s secular law as Misogynist, Islamophobic and degrading. During the 2020 National Day Show, he wore a button-up denouncing the secularism law.

Emile will not arrive on the scene to announce that he is in violation of this law, confirmed the Director of Communications and Marketing at MNQSophie Lemelin, I did an interview recently. It is not for Emile to come and play politics.

his national day He was always depoliticized in the noble sense of the termI explained.

Instead of feeling listened to, I feel an attitude of denial from the organizers that doesn’t make me feel welcomeMs. Berry Melanson concluded.