Posted at 12:00 p.m.
Protected by silence
Yes, why did Philippe Bond not back down from the protests… Why didn’t one of the hockey players intervene… Why? Because these aggressors are regularly protected by the silence of cowards, and this, for SEVERAL years… Congratulations for this excellent article.
Madeleine Viau
The responsibility to denounce
Witnesses to assaults who remain silent, regardless of the environment, are also guilty. They have a responsibility to denounce.
Martin Girard, retired preschool and elementary school teacher
A matter of education
I read with great interest your text “Open your eyes, break the silence”. As a former high school principal in Montreal, sex education can be learned… and what about respect for others…
Lise Robitaille
A word for Thomas Levac
Thank you for this article, I read you religiously in The Press+. But I wondered why we don’t talk about the “courageous” Mr. Levac who was not afraid to say out loud what everyone had known for a long time. I read derogatory comments towards him following his exit against Philippe Bond and yet, we should all underline his courage. I hope in the end that his career will not suffer because let’s not forget, he is the only one who has shown courage according to everything I have read in recent days.
Lucie Couturier
More vulnerable than ever
I live in the region, I have been in my 60s and have been single for a few years and I am just starting to go out occasionally on evenings out after more than two years of the pandemic staying quiet at home or around me. I confess that I have never felt so vulnerable as now when I dare to go out. […] It’s really become worrying to go out at night, no matter where, with everything that happens, in all walks of life, as you point out so well in your article. It’s really a shame and I don’t know if it will ever come back like before, but I doubt it…
Johanne Charette
A culture to change
I have just finished reading your editorial and I think that we need to work even further upstream than that, from primary school, and even before. There is this expression in English: boys will be boys. This expression is the perfect illustration of this attitude which allows boys to have all sorts of unacceptable behaviors that we not only accept, but that we don’t punish because they are boys. Worse, they are sometimes encouraged. It starts with bullying in the schoolyard and ends with a rape. Yes to sex education, but it won’t reach all the boys for all sorts of reasons; we must also tackle the permissiveness of the boys will be boys.
Genevieve Blain