I am 100% for Law 21. The singer-songwriter Émile Bilodeau hates Law 21 so much that during the National Day of 2020, he wore an anti-Law 21 button. He has already called it a ‘”osti of misogynistic, islamophobic and degrading law”.
Does that mean that I am against the fact that Émile Bilodeau hosts the National Day this year? On the contrary, I am for! Long live freedom of speech!
On the other hand, I hope that Bilodeau will not take advantage of his platform to lecture us, as he knows how to do so well. On June 23, we are here to celebrate Quebec. Not to listen to a priest give us a sermon.
MOVEMENT AGAINST MOVEMENT
On my QUB radio show, Marilou Alarie of the Mouvement laïque québécois explained to us why the Mouvement is surprised and disappointed that the Mouvement national des Québécoises and Québécois asked Émile Bilodeau to host the June 23 show. They do not find it “unifying”.
The next day, Frédéric Lapointe of the Mouvement national des Québécoises et Québécois told me that they never choose the hosts of the party based on their political opinions.
- Listen to the interview with Frédéric Lapointe, president of the Mouvement national des Québécoises et Québécois on Sophie Durocher’s show via QUB-radio :
I asked Émile Bilodeau to come to my show, he refused.
On the other hand, he agreed to speak to the august Duty. And he said “that he has no intention of taking a position against Law 21 on June 23”.
Phew! Fortunately!
But he added that he was going to “take a stand during the show against the company Glencore, owner of the Horne Foundry in Rouyn-Noranda”.
And here is what Bilodeau added:
“Our enemies are not women who dress differently who want to work in an undervalued field. It is the private companies that come here, that hurt our environment and poison our children.”
But where in Law 21 do we qualify state employees wearing religious symbols as “enemies”? It is neither in the letter nor in the spirit of the law.
This is Emile Bilodeau’s problem. He repeats clichés and generalities about a law that he clearly does not understand.
SINGING EDITORIAL
In his signature song I rememberhere is what Émile Bilodeau sings: “I remember very well / The religion that had both hands / In our society / Faque, we packed it down and we modernized.
There are many things that have changed / But we never crashed / Faque, why in 2020 / We are even more afraid of our neighbors?
- Listen to the Nantel-Durocher meeting broadcast live every day at 3 p.m. via QUB-radio :
The secularism of the state / It must be kept in good condition / But not in spite / Of all our friends who have lived here / For decades / Worse still, who just want / To go to work with their identity.
If one day my daughter / Gets taught / The Quiet Revolution / By a veiled woman / But there Criss, we will find out / Racism has always been wrong»
Hey there, we agree that Émile Bilodeau is not a great lyricist.
His texts are didactic, not to say demagogic. One has the impression of reading a laborious session work of a CEGEP student.
My biggest reproach to the organizers of the National Day is to have chosen, to sing the fleur-de-lis, an artist who remains… at the level of the daisies.