The co-spokesperson for Québec solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, passes the towel on the insults pronounced in the chamber by his parliamentary leader, Alexandre Leduc, towards his CAQ counterpart, Simon Jolin-Barrette.
• Read also: [VIDÉO] “F**k youSimon!”: solidarity Alexandre Leduc insults Jolin-Barrette… and apologizes
“I want to say: let the one who has never fished throw the first stone,” said Mr. Nadeau-Dubois from the outset, returning to the insulting remarks made the day before by Mr. Leduc when leaving the Blue Room.
“F**ck you Simon, f**ck you Simon,” shouted the member for Hochelaga-Maisonneuve on Wednesday, targeting the government’s parliamentary leader.
“We’re at the end of the session, everyone is tired. Politicians are human beings, right? They sometimes lose control of their emotions. This is what happened to my friend [Alexandre Leduc]», explained Mr. Nadeau-Dubois.
The parliamentary leader of QS stressed that Mr. Leduc immediately amended his actions by offering his apologies to Mr. Jolin-Barrette and that the latter was kind enough to accept them.
Just before losing his temper, on Wednesday, Mr. Leduc had just defended the member for Sherbrooke, Christine Labrie, who led the presidency of the National Assembly to add “exploit women” to the list of words not allowed. parliamentarians, at the start of the week.
GND gets impatient
According to Mr. Nadeau-Dubois, the fact that Mme Labrie being Mr. Leduc’s spouse in no way calls into question his legitimacy as a parliamentary leader, as several analysts raised yesterday.
“That has nothing to do with it,” said Mr. Nadeau-Dubois impatiently, when questioned on this point in the press scrum.
“You know what the scandal is in Quebec,” he retorted to journalists. One in three Quebecers suffers from food insecurity. Do you have any questions about this? Do you have any questions about this? Do you have any questions about that?”
Before receiving an apology, Mr. Jolin-Barrette also questioned Mr. Leduc’s place as parliamentary leader of the second opposition group, emphasizing that he has never seen an elected official being insulted by the type.
“I think he must ask himself questions,” said the CAQ member for Borduas, condemning the words of his supportive counterpart.
Mr. Leduc also obtained the support of his colleague Vincent Marissal.
“Tempers sometimes get heated in the National Assembly. It is not the first time. And then, it’s unfortunate. […] We’re not proud of that. We’re not going to have t-shirts printed with that,” commented the supportive deputy from Rosemont.
“Alexander apologized in good faith. Simon accepted the apology in good faith. In the old days, we called them gentlemen’s agreements. We could change the word now to be more inclusive, but that’s what a British-style Parliament is like […] works,” explained Mr. Marissal.