Québec solidaire revived the evenings mixing art and politics on Saturday evening with a musical performance interspersed with speeches by its spokespersons, on the sidelines of the training congress.
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The image had something to recall the early years of the Parti Québécois. Except that Klô Pelgag, recently crowned by ADISQ, replaced Gilles Vigneault and Paul Piché at the time in this evening which took place at the Gesù, in Montreal, in front of some 450 people. Everything was also posted online, on Facebook.
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The parliamentary leader of QS, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, has also broadly underlined the support of artists to his political formation. “This is not the first time that artists have lent their voice to social change. This is not the first time that artists have been at the forefront of change and social progress in Quebec, ”he declared at the opening of the speech before drawing a parallel with the Quiet Revolution.
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Freshly re-elected with 97% of the votes as spokesperson (just like Manon Massé), Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois launched the pre-election year of his party by unveiling a theme he intends to repeat “every day” from here. the next elections: “we are capable”.
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At one point, the crowd chanted the slogan reminiscent of Barack Obama’s “Yes we can” in 2008.
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As he has done for a few days, the solidarity leader then portrayed the upcoming election as a choice between the vision of his training and that of François Legault. “We are going to ask him to defend his choices,” he said, referring in particular to “the absurd choice to build a six-lane highway, under the St. Lawrence River, our national gem, in the midst of a climate crisis. “.
“The third link is the symbol of a retrograde vision of Quebec where concrete comes before the future,” says Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
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Patching up the social net
A few minutes earlier, Manon Massé had also taken the stage to describe a policy guided by “benevolence”.
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“We are going to patch that up, that social safety net there,” she declared, after denouncing the cuts that Quebec has experienced in recent decades.