When the solidarity MP for Taschereau, Catherine Dorion, announced that she would not seek a second term, the leader of the Conservative Party, Éric Duhaime, said he believed it was an April Fool’s joke.
However, it was difficult to think that she liked the National Assembly. She was not the first to be disappointed with politics, but we had rarely seen a temperament so incompatible with the demands of parliamentary work.
Other rebellious spirits were able to adapt to it. For example, Amir Khadir understood that it was possible to fight injustice more effectively than by throwing his shoes, without being able to qualify him as a “good schoolboy”.
Mme Dorion had every right to think that she could be more useful by campaigning elsewhere than in this “outdated” institution, where the tyranny of the majority, respect for decorum, procedural fuss and party line can become annoying, even unbearable to some, but are part of a system which, until further notice, has the support of the vast majority of the population.
However, it did not seem to have occurred to her that her comments could be hurtful to her colleagues, who had nevertheless defended her publicly each time she found herself in the hot seat.
Obviously, her statements at the time were not enough to empty her heart, and she felt the need to add more in a shocking book entitled The hotheads. She still claims to support Québec solidaire (QS), but the fact that she chose to launch this paving stone two weeks before her congress allows us to question her conception of solidarity. She criticizes her party for indulging in marketing, but we can see that she herself does not lack talent in this area.
Audi alteram partem, said Bernard Landry. There is always a flip side to every coin. In a long message on .
He had arrived at the National Assembly sharing the same contempt that she inspired in the new deputy. “I am a little ashamed to remember how puerile and childish our point of view was,” he wrote after taking note of the work accomplished by each of the deputies of the solidarity caucus, who devoted hundreds of hours in committee parliamentarian to “pull bills to the left”.
In his book, Mme Dorion is very critical of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, presented as an egoist who only thinks of his personal interest. At first, Mr. Boulianne didn’t like him either. He now says he has never known “a person who is so [dévouée] to a cause.”
It’s rather his former boss who takes it for her cold. “If I talk about Gabriel’s work ethic, it’s because it’s really what sets him apart from Catherine the most. While my respect for Gabriel increased, my respect for Catherine followed the opposite trend, as she took refuge, first in presenteeism, then finally simply in absenteeism. This is the real and disappointing truth. »
You can be a punk and still be a prima donna. His former deputy criticizes Mme Dorion for having “discarded like rags” all those who allowed him to be elected and who worked tirelessly to help him weather the media storms caused by escapades that the other parties would not have tolerated.
Of course, Mme Dorion rejects these criticisms. “He’s a guy in Gabriel’s bodyguard. I can understand that it hurt them […] I read his stuff, and it’s not completely true,” she said in an interview. Not completely true, so still a little.
She is not the only one to criticize the co-spokesperson of QS for his style of leadership or even a guilty refocusing, but it is always regrettable to see a former politician settle scores with his former party without regard to the harm caused. he does first and foremost to the cause he defends.
There is no problem that Mme Dorion vents on the media, if it does him any good, but the situation was already difficult enough at QS, which is struggling to find a new lease of life, without scratching old sores.