Éric Duhaime is deploying a lot of energy these days to gain credibility. The goal by the election seems to become unavoidable and to be invited to televised debates. The recent recruitment as a candidate of a medical endoctrinologist like Roy Eappen is a good catch in this respect. Except that the latter has repeatedly spit on the French-speaking majority for years, according to screenshots that I obtained. These were made from a now inaccessible blog.
On October 5, 2012, for example, Mr. Eappen wrote that there was “ethnic cleansing” in Quebec. The reason? Françoise David, MP for QS, said that there should be fewer jobs that required knowledge of English. For Roy Eappen, this was part of a strategy to eradicate the English presence in Quebec.
Photo archives, Chantal Poirier
Dr. Roy Eappen, in Montreal, February 17.
The accusation of ethnic cleansing was also made several times by the person concerned against the PQ. In September 2012, he denounced the “twisted socialist and xenophobic” policies of this party, accused of being “racist” in another post.
In April 2012, Eappen also criticized the Quebec elites for “blowing on the embers of division”. This time it was Jean-François Lisée and the magazine l’Actualité who were accused of practicing “ethnic cleansing”, following the publication of a survey and a report on the English-speaking community.
It must be said that on the language the conservative rookie makes common cause with Maxime Bernier. Bill 101 is no longer necessary, he wrote in 2011. Everyone should be able to send their children to English schools. What do you want? We are libertarian or we are not!
Today, Roy Eappen explains in the Journal that he has changed his mind. He no longer wants Bill 101 to be withdrawn. He remains silent, however, on the fact that he accused a lot of people of ethnic cleansing simply because they wanted to protect the French.
In the program of the PCQ, we can read that Éric Duhaime is aware of “the heavy responsibility, which is that of being at the head of the only French people of America”. The Conservative leader will ensure “its existence and its development”.
If voters were to be able to read the columns of Roy Eappen, they might doubt Duhaime’s seriousness in defending our language. How can the Conservative leader reconcile this commitment with the fact that he is now making common cause with someone who says that Quebeckers who want to defend their language are practicing ethnic cleansing?
This is probably why Mr. Eappen’s blog is no longer available. In a mysterious way, the link that led to his past chronicles indicates that now an invitation is required to read them. In English, we call it a cover up.
Two things stand out here. First, one can seriously doubt the nationalism of Éric Duhaime. Second, knowing that the interested party accuses Legault of lacking transparency in his management of the pandemic, the fact that the PCQ hides the embarrassing past of a candidate gives off an unpleasant odor of hypocrisy.