Are you aware of the internal squabbles that are tearing Québec solidaire apart?
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It’s the best show of the year.
If the Théâtre des Variétés were still open, we would present this in the first part of Must place grandfather!
THE NOLIN METHOD
First, there is Catherine Dorion who plays the victim in her book.
“Boo hoo hoo, the media has been mean to me! Boo hoo hoo, even Marie-Louise Arsenault, the priestess of wokes, criticized me!”
In short, you know the method developed by Safia Nolin.
1) You make a provocative gesture to get people talking about you.
2) Your provocative gesture… provokes strong reactions (exactly what you were looking for).
3) You curl up in a ball and bawl while complaining that some people didn’t like your provocation.
Whereas by nature, a provocation… provokes, therefore divides!
In short, in her book, Catherine Dorion accuses the media of having reacted to the provocations that she had created precisely in order for the media to talk about her!
(Like if I got my entire face tattooed and complained about people staring at me…)
That’s the first act.
QS, A PATRIARCHAL PARTY!
The second act of this hilarious comedy is that the former head of communications for Catherine Dorion’s campaign, Philippe Boulianne, says that Ms. Dorion did more harm than good to QS because the party spent its time repairing the problems that she had broken to get people talking about her, and because she didn’t work hard.
Preferring to wear a hoodie to the National Assembly rather than search his files and show up at the office.
In short, Catherine Dorion did not serve QS, she used QS.
And now we have the third act of this farce!
Simon-Pierre Beaudet, close to Catherine Dorion, responded to Philippe Boulianne by saying that if Mr. Boulianne criticized the former QS MP, it is because he is… a man!!!!
And that he would not have liked Catherine Dorion to criticize Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois in her book!
“Here we have a guy who defends another guy,” writes Simon-Pierre Beaudet. Guy who supported multiple guy applications. Who became his colleagues in his caucus made up of two-thirds of guys. There is a malaise at QS and it is patriarchy.”
Yes, yes, GND would be a nasty defender of the patriarchy!
Looking forward to seeing the fourth act of this comedy.
Who knows? It is perhaps a racialized activist who will criticize Dorion, Boulianne and Beaudet because they are white!
That would be the icing on the sundae!
Not to mention GND is straight!
And that he gave birth to a child when QS should be advocating not growth, but degrowth!
Capitalist! Racist! Homophobic!
Imagine: we have a straight man at the head of QS and a gay man at the head of the Conservative Party of Quebec!
It’s the world upside down!
IMPOSSIBLE COHESION
Moral of the story: it’s not easy to avoid division in a left-wing party, when we know that it is in the very nature of the left to divide the world into subcategories!