The war against Quebec memory is taking on a new front by now suggesting that we rename a riding, that of Mercier, in Montreal, which of course honors the memory of Prime Minister Honoré Mercier, even if we do not blame the latter for anything.
Yes, a report from the returning officer of Mercier calls for a change in the name of the constituency to adopt the more geographical one of “Plateau–Mile-End”.
What did Honoré Mercier do wrong to make us want to suppress him?
Nothing.
It’s just that people don’t really know who it was and, often, people in the riding in question don’t know they’re there.
- Listen to the meeting between Gilles Proulx and Richard Martineau via QUB radio :
Reason or pretext?
Until now, when a name change was demanded, it was to take revenge on a historical figure considered evil.
The statue of John A. Macdonald was decapitated and will not return.
The name of the genocidal general Jeffery Amherst has been erased by an Iroquois name, Atateken, which no one will pronounce correctly.
Excited people have often demanded that the name of Lionel Groulx be removed from the metro station… and this very bad trial that was brought against him demonstrated a hatred of Quebec.
Since we like to deny the Catholic heritage without nuance, we had no scruples in sending the name of Mgr Bourget in the mothballs to register Camille Laurin’s instead.
- Listen to the meeting between Gilles Proulx and Richard Martineau via QUB radio :
Hands off!
In another report, the Parti Québécois presented as a counter-proposal the name of Gérald Godin, the beloved poet MP who succeeded in dethroning Robert Bourassa from this riding of Mercier in 1976…
Well, I only half like this proposal from the PQ… because it supports the request for a name change!
Delete Mercier to put Godin? No, misery! Let’s heal people’s failing memories instead of destroying historical references.
By the way, have you thought about the places that will honor the late dashing cowboy Karl Tremblay in a year?