The duty asked five candidates who made the leap into the political arena for the first time what made them interested in public affairs. In turn, with one candidate per party, they tell us about their doubts and their hopes. Today, PQ player Pierre-Luc Brillant.
I was born when René Lévesque was beginning his second year as Premier of Quebec, a few months after the adoption of the Charter of the French language by the National Assembly. Today, at the age of 44, I am deeply grateful and proud of the colossal work of our national party, which has radically changed the political face of the Quebec people by transforming it from the status of a French-speaking minority in Canada to that of a majority people. his home. Like that of all Quebecers, my existence is deeply marked by the legacy of the only truly sovereignist party, whose work is still and always to be continued.
I grew up in the disappointments of the 1980 referendum defeat and the betrayed hopes that followed. I was barely two years old when René Lévesque invited us to the “next time”! I remember it, through the memory of my father, my mother, and our collective memory. The years have left me with this inextinguishable will to make this dream come true. For the rest of the world. For the continuation of our world.
In 1995, I was finally able to measure the strength of the sovereignist project. Yes, the world could truly change. The people of Quebec could afford to get out of dormant speeches to finally embrace the reality of their emancipation. Masters in your own house. Masters in our country. I then understood that a people’s desire for emancipation moves mountains. That the power to unite around a national project, an inclusive project, brings hope, because it will ensure full control of the levers essential to our collective destiny.
Since the bitter defeat of 1995, betrayed promises to renew the Canadian order have only perpetuated the erosion of Quebec’s powers and its future prospects as a national community. For too long, Quebec has suffered refusals. It resigns itself to failures and concedes indisputable setbacks in terms of its political and economic autonomy, its linguistic vitality and its control over the achievement of its environmental objectives. To name just a few.
A unifying project
As the saying goes, madness is doing the same thing over and over again, hoping for a different result. Please don’t embrace the folly of repeating the same mistakes over and over again hoping for reforms that will never come to Canada.
The independence of Quebec is more necessary than ever. It is high time for our people to speak with their own voice to the nations of the Earth. It is high time that we finally participate fully in decisions on the challenges of humanity without having to ask permission from this Canadian oil state whose interests still dominate ours.
Independence is essential because our language is losing ground every moment and our subjugation to Canada is the cause. Because the people of Quebec are tired of having to justify their laws duly passed in the National Assembly before a foreign crown that invalidates them according to their ideological moods.
Over time, my job as an artist has allowed me to meet people from all over Quebec, French Canada and around the world. Listening to what others have to say about their origins, their history, their dreams, their values and their national political aspirations has inspired me. It is essential for small nations to control the levers of the State to develop their collective prosperity and promote their cultures. Their sustainability is at stake.
I am running in Rosemont for the Parti Québécois because I fundamentally believe that independence is the only political option that can allow Quebecers to flourish within a great people who take full responsibility for themselves. I’m running because I’ve had enough of the propaganda of fear and the idea that being a sovereigntist means being against the other, against difference, when it’s quite the opposite. It is a unifying project that binds us to the desire to live together.
I proudly represent a major party that has marked the cultural, socio-economic and identity development of Quebec. And we are its heirs. I invest myself to follow up on the aspirations, the dreams, the convictions, the achievements of the people of my country.
Evolving with the times
As we celebrate the 100e anniversary of the birth of René Lévesque, the 32e first minister in the history of Quebec, François Legault confirms his federalist allegiance and his “dependentist” will. He is an “abdiquist” in front of Canada who is now pushing the envelope to the point of assuring us that the “coalition” he represents is even less sovereigntist than… Dominique Anglade’s liberals!
In the current global tumult; from the climate crisis to the amplification of social and economic inequalities, the decisive actions to be taken must be done collectively. The only way to achieve them is to take responsibility and design the greatest and most inspiring project for a nation: independence.
This project must at all costs remain alive, evolving with the times, in order to regain strength and remind Quebeckers of all origins and allegiances that there is nothing more resistant on earth than the will to freedom of a people.
In this decisive moment for our common future, it is our duty to remember and to give impetus to the party that Mr. Lévesque founded.
I am ready to work on it tirelessly and to contribute to it with you and on behalf of all those who will follow us. For the rest of the world.