Posted at 11:00 a.m.
The PQ candidate defeated in Rosemont, Pierre-Luc Brillant, is returning to his profession as an actor and musician, but he intends to continue to campaign with the Parti Québécois in the coming months and is strongly considering running for re-election. “If I am asked, I think I will represent myself, yes. »
“I loved the experience, told us the PQ candidate, who came third in the race – with 21% of the votes – behind QS and the CAQ in the riding of Rosemont, in Montreal. There are people who fit well with the political world and I discovered that I had a lot of affinities with this environment. Both in meeting people and in defending political ideas, in particular that of sovereignty, which must be taken head-on. »
Pierre-Luc Brillant is disappointed, of course, but he believes that his candidacy has given “new breath to the sovereignist movement and to the Parti Québécois”. “In any case, that’s what I was told, he notes, so I take the compliment and I will continue to campaign with the PQ. I won’t curl up sucking my thumb. »
He does not yet know what he wants to do precisely. “I will accomplish the mission that I am given. I will not put my arm in the door if we want to close it, but it could be to talk to young people, because the sovereignist movement has an interest in meeting them in the coming years, he thinks. Young people have not heard of sovereignty in their lives because of the Charest era, the Couillard era and now the CAQ. I realized that they are not difficult to convince. »
The actor and musician believed in his chances until the day of the vote, even if the polls gave the lead to the outgoing deputy of Quebec solidaire, Vincent Marissal. He now hopes that his commitment will convince other artists to “get out of the wardrobe”.
Many artists are afraid to display their political convictions. However, independence is not a negative idea, it is an idea which must be debated in the public square and which has its raison d’être.
Pierre-Luc Brilliant
“I challenge anyone to explain to me how Quebec benefits from its presence in Canada, when we know that our demographic weight is melting, when we know that the French language is in decline, when we cannot speak on our own behalf to other nations on matters as crucial as the environment or immigration…”
There is no doubt that Pierre-Luc Brillant was “transformed” by this passage in politics. “I come out of it grown, humanly, psychologically, enriched by my encounters,” he admits. In our daily lives, we don’t often meet people outside our social class. There, I met all kinds of people, the well-off, the less well-off, people who have mental health problems or who experience injustice. I often had trouble sleeping at night thinking about them. To those I could have helped, because there are possible solutions. »
Ready to get back to work
What effect will this commitment have on his artistic career? “Hard to say for the rest of my career on TV or in the cinema, admits Pierre-Luc Brillant. If nothing more happens in the next few months, then it’s because I will have paid for my commitment, but maybe a lot of things will happen too, we’ll see. Anyway, I’m back on the job market! »
Musically, Pierre-Luc Brillant is working on several show projects, alone, with his group Les Batteux-Slaques or with his girlfriend, actress Isabelle Blais, with whom he forms the folk duo Comme dans un film. He is also working on an instrumental album — of original compositions on classical guitar — which will be released next April.
Despite the defeat, he is happy to return to his first job. “It’s a passion, so I don’t come back backwards. But I think we can have several professional drawers. »