TADOUSSAC – Two PQ candidates have been excluded from Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s team because they have multiplied messages against the wearing of the veil and Muslims on Facebook. The leader did not ask for their candidacy to be withdrawn, which will allow them to represent the Parti Québécois on Monday’s ballots.
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The PQ leader has decided to exclude from the PQ team Pierre Vanier, candidate in Rousseau, and his spouse Catherine Provost, candidate in the neighboring county of Assumption.
Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon, however, did not ask them to withdraw their candidacy. “I had to draw a line,” said Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, saying they had a very positive campaign. “He also tells me that he apologizes and deeply regrets these shares.”
Between 2015 and 2016, the couple multiplied Islamophobic publications and against women wearing the veil on Facebook.
In January 2016, Vanier posted an image in which several women can be seen wearing different veils. He then judges their intelligence by writing this:
“why do western women choose to drape themselves in these accoutrements? As one of my colleagues said: they miss 15 minutes of not cooked in the noggin, ”wrote Pierre Vanier. The latter was political attaché of the former deputy of Rousseau, Nicolas Marceau.
Mme Prévost also published this type of publications.
He dissociates himself from Pierre Vanier’s remarks, but wanted to hear his defense before making a final decision about him.
“What I see on his Facebook posts is absolutely inconsistent with our campaign. Absolutely incompatible with the revival of the Parti Québécois that we are succeeding in bringing together, ”he said, pleading that he had not yet managed to speak with Mr. Vanier in order to listen to his Version of events.
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On October 3, the names of the two candidates will nevertheless appear on the ballot papers under the banner of the Parti Québécois.
“If elected, he would be elected as an independent,” assured PSPP. It is “up to the people to choose” whether they have their place in the National Assembly, he said.
“They argue, and you have to hear this argument (…) that you can’t judge an individual for his campaign, entirely on an event, a Facebook post from 2015,” he argued.
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Paul St-Pierre Plamondon points out that he does not have the power, as leader, to withdraw a candidacy. He argues that this situation does not affect his leadership.
Thus, each vote for these candidates will bring in a lot of money for the sovereignist formation. The PQ teams will not be able to help them to get the vote out. The candidates had to leave the offices of the PQ and they were removed from the training website.
Several publications
Controversial posts by Rousseau’s candidate for the Parti Québécois resurfaced Friday morning, three days before the vote.
In June 2015, the candidate published a publication that attacks Muslims in order to demonstrate the vigor at work of the sovereignists.
“Give a hammer to a sovereigntist, he will build a country. Give a Muslim a hammer, he will kill democracy. Give a useful idiot a hammer, he will give it to a Muslim.”
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said he was angry and dissatisfied because his team had not checked the candidate’s Facebook posts.
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Paul St-Pierre Plamondon stopped in Tadoussac today. He announced that excluded two candidates from his political formation. Friday, September 30, 2022
However, according to PSPP, social networks “remove” the electoral campaign “from the essentials”.
“It obviously seems easier to make a mistake or say things, than not long after, you don’t really think. That’s what I had as a discussion with Mr. Vanier and Ms. Provost. They don’t think so,” he said.
Other posts:
“For people who believe Muslims in Quebec when they say they came here to make a new life with us. Islam is Islam everywhere. It’s the same religion, the same laws, and the same goals. Dominate and crush the infidels”, wrote Pierre Vanier in February 2016.
“For people who believe Muslims in Quebec when they say they came here to make a new life with us. Islam is Islam everywhere. It’s the same religion, the same laws, and the same goals. Dominate and crush the infidels” – February 16, 2016
“It is an open secret that their tolerance of the intolerable rests much more on the billions of Islamic investments than on the free choice, by women, of their dungeon” – September 5, 2016
“I have the right not to share your beliefs. I have the right not to like your religion. I have the right to say it” – August 23, 2015
“In Quebec, it is very likely that the mosques are financed by foreign funds from arable countries, propaganda… etc., legal proceedings, undoubtedly the wearing of the veil for activists, etc.” – February 18, 2015
“To the people of Quebec, never forget that the English wanted, still want and will always want to exterminate us” – February 12, 2016
Post shared in February 2015:
“Are you waiting until your daughters and granddaughters have to wear this before you wake up? Let’s take our country back before it’s too late. Support the charter of Quebec values.”
Comment from Pierre Vanier: “As Philippe Couillard said so well, this problem did not exist in Quebec! Not yet, but how long if we don’t wake up today?
“In Quebec, it is very likely that the mosques are financed by foreign funds from arable countries, propaganda… etc., legal proceedings, undoubtedly the wearing of the veil for activists, etc.” – February 18, 2015
“It doesn’t work” reacts GND
According to the co-spokesperson of Québec solidaire, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon “did not make a real decision” by acting in this way.
“If my information is correct, these two people will be the ballots, they will be identified with the Parti Québécois,” observed Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
Consequently, the Parti Québécois will collect the funding accordingly. “It doesn’t work,” summarized Mr. Nadeau-Dubois, during a press scrum upon his arrival in Gatineau.
This situation could also pose an issue when the time comes to determine the order of parliamentary groups in the National Assembly.
“To decide between opposition groups in the National Assembly, the first criterion is that of the number of deputies, but the percentage of votes, the number of votes cast also counts”, he recalled.
“If we want a person to no longer be on his team, we show leadership and we make sure that these people are no longer on the ballots,” pleaded Mr. Nadeau-Dubois.
This is what happened when the candidate of Québec solidaire, Marie-Eve Rancourt, withdrew in the riding of Camille-Laurin, after being caught by a surveillance camera stealing a flyer of his PQ opponent, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
His name will be removed from the ballots on October 3.
– With the collaboration of Marc-André Gagnon, Parliamentary Office