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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 18:00:04 -0300
Subject: Methinks Éric Duhaime should call me back now N'esy Pas? Higgy
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Methinks the Ghosts of André Arthur and Tom Young know why I hope Éric
Duhaime wins a seat in the "National Assembly" N'esy Pas?
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From: Éric Duhaime <eric@ericduhaime.quebec>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 13:52:26 -0700
Subject: Accusé de réception Re: Methinks the Ghosts of André Arthur
and Tom Young know why I hope Éric Duhaime wins a seat in the
"National Assembly" N'esy Pas?
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Bonjour,
Nous accusons réception de votre courriel.
Soyez assuré que nous prendrons le temps de vous lire. L'intérêt pour
l'élection d'Éric Duhaime à la tête du Parti conservateur du Québec
est tel qu'il est difficile de répondre à tous dans un court délai.
Nous recevons un nombre important de courriels.
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Hey RadioX I just called thanks for listening to me
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Vos questions, Éric Répond.
Le chef du PCQ, Éric Duhaime, de passage dans Maurais Live durant la campagne, répond aux questions des auditeurs de Radio X.
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Duhaime: 'If we're not in the National Assembly, then we'll be on the street'
The leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec says voters will be disenfranchised if popular support doesn't translate into seats.
Conservative Party of Quebec Leader Éric Duhaime signs his biography for a supporter after a morning run on the Plains of Abraham, Thursday, September 29, 2022 in Quebec City. Photo by Karoline Boucher /CP
QUEBEC CITY — Éric Duhaime straps the harness on his pit bull-Labrador mix, Mia, and attaches the leash to his belt.
As he exits his campaign bus, a group of roughly 30 supporters wearing athleisure cheers him on as he approaches the running track in the battlegrounds park of the Plains of Abraham.
It’s a chilly 7 C, and Duhaime maintains a brisk five-minute-per-kilometre pace over three kilometres as he chats with party activists.
Momentum appears to be on the side of his Conservative Party of Quebec, with the favourable polls published in the morning showing a five-percentage-point lead over the Coalition Avenir Québec in the riding of Beauce-Nord, and the party behind by one point in the riding of Beauce-Sud.
However, while Duhaime appears to have the momentum in the Quebec City and Beauce region, he is running against the wind if he hopes to translate that support into actual seats.
Speaking to reporters Thursday at a campaign stop in Portneuf, west of Quebec City, Duhaime said he knows his party is in many tight races, but because his voters skew younger, they are less likely to vote than supporters of the CAQ.
“It’s important for us to get seats,” Duhaime said. “But there is a risk that there will be a significant electoral distortion on Monday night. We want to tell the young people out there to ask their parents and grandparents to vote with them and to vote for the future.”
The CAQ is polling around the same level as it was in the last election, but is projected to win an even bigger majority, while Duhaime fears his party could earn close to 20 per cent of the votes and yet win no seats in the National Assembly.
Duhaime is pulling all the stops to push party supporters to go out and vote.
At rallies, he’s telling them to babysit for others who need childcare so they can go vote, and to drive those with mobility issues to the polls on Monday.
While he’s buoyed by the high participation rate in the advance polls, particularly in areas where his support is strongest, Duhaime is taking nothing for granted.
If his party is shut out on election day, it will result in many people being disenfranchised, he said.
“If we’re not in the National Assembly, then we’ll be on the street,” Duhaime said. “As a people, we should have this opposition in the assembly and have our debate in a democratic and appropriate way, but what happened in the last few years is that a lot of people went into the streets and that’s how they voiced their opposition.”
Duhaime welcomed the news that Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said Thursday that the Conservative leader should have a seat at the assembly.
“I think that was gracious of him, and I want to commend him for that,” he said. “I also want to commend different people in the media who have come out in the last few days who might disagree with my ideas but agree that the Conservative voice needs to be heard on Oct. 3.”
Duhaime, who gained popularity by opposing COVID-19 health restrictions, was in friendly territory Thursday, speaking to Radio X morning host Dominic Maurais and repeating the message that his supporters need to show up en masse to vote.
He also went on the attack, saying the CAQ is giving Quebec a bad name internationally by making disparaging remarks about immigrants.
Duhaime said incumbent immigration minister Jean Boulet should be dropped as a candidate after his anti-immigration remarks made headlines.
“Mr. Boulet is disqualified,” he said. “He should not be on the ballot.”
Duhaime said Legault should dump Boulet for saying 80 per cent of immigrants don’t speak French, don’t work and don’t adhere to Quebec values.
The comments came to light on Wednesday, a week after Boulet made them during an all-candidates debate in Trois-Rivières.
While Legault said the comments “disqualified” Boulet from being immigration minister, Duhaime said he should not be permitted to run as an MNA at all.
“What message is (Legault) trying to send — his comments are not acceptable for a minister, but they’re totally acceptable for a candidate of the CAQ and an MNA for Trois-Rivières? That argument makes no sense.
“Mr. Legault will have to sit down with Mr. Boulet and make a decision.”
The Conservative leader said Boulet’s comments have no place in an electoral campaign.
“I don’t like to call people racist,” he said. “I won’t accuse him of being a racist, but his comments are so out of place that it disqualifies him.”
Duhaime added he’s concerned about Legault’s repeated comments about immigration, the most recent coming Wednesday, when he said accepting more than 50,000 immigrants a year would be “suicidal for the Quebec nation.”
“I look in all the small villages — the immigrants who are there are like family,” Duhaime said. “The people from there will buy them winter coats. That’s how we Quebecers are, and François Legault is giving us an image as intolerant people, and he’s harming the province’s reputation.”
He said it’s clear Legault’s campaign is in disarray.
“Every day, he seems to be in a very bad mood,” Duhaime said. “Today he was in a very bad mood in Rouyn-Noranda, where he didn’t like to answer a reporter’s questions. He was very aggressive. That shows that Mr. Legault needs a much stronger opposition in the National Assembly. That man has been handling Quebec by decree for way too long. He doesn’t like to be contradicted, but that’s why democracy is useful.”
On another radio show, Duhaime said his party is set to make a final pitch to anglophones to abandon the Liberals and vote for the Conservatives.
He told CJAD 800 host Elias Makos that non-francophones are joining his movement and he hopes to pick up seats on the island of Montreal.
“A lot of non-francophones are getting in, and I’m happy about that,” Duhaime said. “We’ll be in the west end of Montreal on Saturday, in the Jacques-Cartier riding, and I will make a bilingual speech.”
Duhaime said the Liberals risk becoming a marginalized party, as they have polled poorly among francophone voters.
However, more recent polls place the Liberals second behind the CAQ, and the polling aggregate site Qc125.com predicts the party will form the official opposition.
Quebec Conservative Leader distancing himself from party official after claims about Indigenous genocide
The comments were made by the president of the party's policy commission
Conservative Party of Quebec Leader Éric Duhaime is distancing himself from a member of the party's executive branch after he published an opinion piece claiming there was no genocide against Indigenous people in Canada.
The party's policy commission president André Valiquette published the article in Québec Nouvelles last year, arguing Indigenous people largely benefited from the European colonization of their land.
"It is not racist to say that one civilization brings more than another," Valiquette wrote in the article.
"It was also Western civilization, that curiosity about others, that helped Indigenous people learn about their own history."
André Valiquette volunteers with the party's policy commission, a party spokesperson said. (The Conservative Party of Quebec)
When asked on Saturday if he agreed with what Valiquette wrote, Duhaime said he didn't.
"I don't share [those views], they don't represent the policies of the party," the leader said. "But he has a right to say it as a columnist."
Valiquette serves as the president of the party's political commission, according to its website. Press secretary Cédric Lapointe said Valiquette helps the party "on policies" as a volunteer, but wouldn't reveal the extent of his involvement in the official party line.
CBC News attempted to reach Valiquette multiple times, but he never responded. At a campaign event on Saturday in Montreal's West Island he also again refused to comment.
"He backed up his personal analysis on this issue, which should be encouraged in a free and democratic society," added Véronique Gagnon, the president of the party's communications commission, in an email.
Duhaime told reporters on Friday he was "too busy" to attend any commemorations for the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, not wanting to hold off meeting with the mayor of Quebec City with the election just days away.
It was declared a federal statutory holiday last year just days after the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation confirmed the discovery of roughly 200 potential burial sites, likely of children, on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
The Coalition Avenir Québec was the only party that attended a Truth and Reconciliation commemoration on Friday, when Leader François Legault visited the site of a former residential school in Saint-Marc-de-Figuery, Que., in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.
Liberal party Leader Dominique Anglade said she would have gone to the march in Montreal, but was told organizers preferred not to have any candidates attending. Meanwhile Québec Solidaire co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois said he wanted Indigenous voices be front and centre that day, while Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said scheduling got in the way.
Duhaime has also said his party doesn't agree the day should be a statutory holiday in Quebec, making it the only major party in the election on board with the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ).
"We need to work, we can't take days off too often, we already have a lot of days off," Duhaime told reporters on Thursday.
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https://www.conservative.quebec/candidate_eric_duhaime_chauveau
Éric Duhaime
Éric Duhaime was born in Montreal on April 15, 1969 and grew up in Laval. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Montreal and a master's degree in public administration from ÉNAP.
He has held various political offices, including:
- parliamentary assistant, researcher, and political adviser to the leader of the Bloc Québécois from 1993 to 1999;
- political adviser to the Leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons from 2000 to 2002;
- political adviser to the leader of the Action Démocratique du Québec (ADQ) from 2003 to 2005;
- political adviser to the leader of the official opposition in the National Assembly from 2007 to 2008.
Éric also acted as a democratic development consultant for the National Democratic Institute in Morocco from 2005 to 2007 and in Iraq from 2008 to 2009. In 2010, he co-founded the Réseau Liberté-Québec (RLQ), an organization that aimed to network the political circles of Quebec's right.
From 2010 to 2020, he was a columnist and host in several Quebec and Canadian media, including the Journal de Montréal and the Journal de Québec, Sun Media, 98.5, Radio X and FM93. He also published four sociopolitical essays: The State Against Young People (2011), Free Us from the Unions (2013), The SAQ Pulls the Cork (2014) and The End of Homosexuality and the Last Gay (2017).
On April 17, 2021, he was elected leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec by more than 10,000 members.
"We're not here to cover our tracks, we're here to win. I came to Chauveau because it's a riding that looks like me. It is also a constituency that has a younger profile."
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Beauce-Nord
MNA: Provençal, Luc (CAQ)Latest projection: October 1, 2022
Toss up CAQ/QCP
https://www.conservative.quebec/candidate_olivier_dumais_beauce_nord
Olivier Dumais
Olivier Dumais is an entrepreneur by nature, a property owner, and a seasoned manager.
Very involved at every level, in 2017 he became mayor of St-Lambert-de-Lauzon at the age of 37, and he also serves as deputy prefect and president of the security committee for the Regional County Municipality (MRC) of Nouvelle-Beauce.
“I decided to join the Conservative Party of Quebec because it is the party that best matches my values. I am happy and proud to announce my official arrival in the Conservative family. I believe in transparency, democracy, freedom of choice, the protection of seniors and youth, health care both physical and mental, and the sound management of Quebec.”
olivier.dumais@conservateur.quebec (581)333-3453 olivierdumaispcq
https://338canada.com/quebec/1008e.htm
Beauce-Sud
MNA: Poulin, Samuel (CAQ)Latest projection: October 1, 2022
Toss up CAQ/QCP
https://www.conservative.quebec/candidate_jonathan_poulin_beauce_sud
Jonathan Poulin
A native of Saint-Georges who has lived in Montreal for
several years now, Jonathan Poulin studied accounting and management at
Cégep Beauce-Appalaches. He then obtained a Bachelor’s degree in civil
law from the University of Ottawa, followed by a Doctorate in common law
(J.D.) from Université de Montréal.
The 30-year-old lawyer is well aware of the issues that concern his home region, including the labour shortage, the need to balance regional training courses with immigration, and the desperate need for community health services and home care.
“In my opinion, the Conservative Party of Quebec is the only party that promises real, in-depth change to correct all the things currently going wrong in Quebec. I can connect with the values the party defends, and the solutions they propose line up nicely with my own personal values. Today, I am both happy and proud to enter politics under the banner of the Conservatives and to be able to participate in these major changes.”
jonathan.poulin@conservateur.quebec (581)500-0906 jonathanpoulinpcq
Richard Lehoux
Overview
- Political Affiliation:
- Conservative
- Constituency:
- Beauce
- Province / Territory:
- Quebec
- Preferred Language:
- French
https://www.conservative.quebec/candidate_francois_therrien_bonaventure
François Therrien
Director of the COOP Saint-André and volunteer President of
the Corporation des Loisirs de Saint-André, François Therrien is
passionate about hunting, fishing and cryptocurrency.
Mr.
Therrien finds the Quebec Conservative Party’s proposals on family and
education very compelling, especially the policies of offering $200 per
child to allow parents to choose the type of daycare that’s right for
them, and of providing significant support to parents who wish to home
school.
“The riding of Bonaventure is a large and beautiful region. We should have more local control over our own economic development and our health care and education needs. Decentralization would be good for us. This community knows its own needs and would really benefit from being more autonomous. The Conservative Party of Quebec is the only party proposing to give the regions more independence in their decision-making.”
francois.therrien@conservateur.quebec (581)512-4045 francoistherrienpcq
https://www.conservative.quebec/candidate_pier_luc_bouchard_gaspe
Pier-Luc Bouchard
A native and current resident of Gaspé, Pier-Luc Bouchard has
a degree in natural sciences from the Cégep de Gaspé and in paramedic
care from the Cégep de Sainte-Foy.
Mr.
Bouchard has worked as a paramedic for fifteen years. He also owns
income properties and has run his own construction company, Construction
PLB, for the past six years. The front-line medical worker is very
concerned about the state of Quebec’s health care system, the critical
labour shortage and the urgent need to reduce gasoline taxes.
“In accordance with the CPQ’s proposal, we absolutely must allow the private sector to contribute to the public health care system. As things stand right now, all Quebecers are paying the price. It does not make sense for a failing system to be collectively costing us $1 billion a week. As an ambulance driver, I experience highly aberrant patient care situations on a daily basis. The entire population deserves better than this, health care workers deserve better than this, and the only party with the potential to make real changes is the CPQ.”
pierluc.bouchard@conservateur.quebec (581)509-5179 pierlucbouchardpcq
https://www.conservative.quebec/candidate_evan_leblanc_iles_de_la_madeleine
Evan Leblanc
Originally from Cap-aux-Meules, Evan Leblanc recently moved
to Pointe-aux-Loups and works in the field of transportation.
Distinguished by his analytical and empathetic spirit, he wishes to
bring hope, freedom, and pragmatic solutions to his fellow citizens.
The
values of freedom, transparency, respect, and autonomy espoused by the
CPQ, as well as Éric Duhaime’s very human approach and ability to
listen, have motivated Mr. Leblanc’s decision to actively enter
politics. Although he is very pleased with the contribution of tourism
to the economic vitality of his Island, Mr. Leblanc is concerned about
the difficulties experienced by islanders in finding housing, and he
laments the fact that residents do not have priority access to the
ferry:
“Islanders are caught between a rock and a hard place, the economic vitality of our community thanks to tourism versus our struggles to find housing and to get ferry access. Many homes are being taken off the rental market to be offered for seasonal tourist rentals. The result is a severe housing shortage for residents, who, on top of this, are denied priority access to the ferry. This is unacceptable! We have to decentralize decision-making to the regions.”
evan.leblanc@conservateur.quebec (581)801-4835 evanleblancpcq
The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier
Overview
- Political Affiliation:
- Liberal
- Constituency:
- Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine
- Province / Territory:
- Quebec
- Preferred Language:
- French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLkb8plKg4&ab_channel=%C3%89ricGrenier
The Writ Podcast - Ep. #62: A last look at the Quebec election
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RCMP Sussex New Brunswick
January 30, 2007
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Mr. David Amos
Dear Mr. Amos:
This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29, 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve Graham of the RCMP "J" Division in Fredericton.
Sincerely,
Honourable Michael B. Murphy
Minister of Health
CM/cb
CLEARLY THE RCMP/GRC AND THE KPMG PALS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO READ LET ALONE COUNT BEANS EH?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
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To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
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Dear Mr. Amos,
Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada and theUS. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
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Former radio host, member of parliament and bus driver Andre Arthur has died at age 78
Independant MP
Andre Arthur applauds the Conservative supporters as he attends the
Prime Minister Stephen Harper speech at Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage,
south of Quebec City on Saturday April 28, 2007. (CP PHOTO/Clement
Allard)Former Quebec radio host Andre Arthur died Sunday.
While he was hospitalized for a few days, according to his own messages on Twitter, he himself prepared tweets announcing his death, which were published Sunday evening. He was 78 years old.
The cause of death was not communicated.
On Wednesday, he announced on social media that he discovered he had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that was never diagnosed. The death occurred at the University Institute of Cardiology and Pneumology of Quebec.
Controversial, calling himself a polemicist, he occupied the airwaves in Quebec City since the early 1980s.
Arthur was also an independent Member of Parliament for the federal riding of Portneuf--Jacques-Cartier from 2006 to 2011.
After his election defeat, he made a return to radio, which was not without controversy. He was notably fired by CHOI Radio X in 2016, and then by BLVD 102.1 radio, after making homophobic remarks in 2018.
"I had the privilege of having had a career as a bus driver, a sports referee, elected to the House of Commons as an independent without allegiance to a party, a place in the media that I hope left no one indifferent and that I managed to make you laugh," he wrote in his posthumous tweet.
Arthur is survived by his son René, his three grandchildren, his daughter Pascale, his 'tender Lucy' and his brother Louis.
-- This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on May 9, 2022.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/tom-young-obit-1.4013032
Iconic Talk of the Town host Tom Young dead at 75
Gruff and cantankerous on the air, Young was a family man with a 'heart of gold'
Tom Young, a radio icon in Saint John for more than 50 years, has died. He was 75.
Young was best known as the host of the long-running show Talk of the Town on CFBC as well as The Afternoon News on News 88.9 Saint John, News 91.9 Moncton, and News 95.7 Halifax.
Young was born in 1942 and grew up in the Toronto area, quitting school after Grade 10 to join the military. He started his broadcasting career in military radio in what was then West Germany.
Longtime CHSJ news director Brian McLain met young in 1978, when he was scouted to join CFBC in Saint John.
Tom Young, right, played a charity hockey tournament with fellow radio broadcasters Donnie Robertson, centre, and Mark Lee. (Submitted by Jody Kliffer)
"He was a force of nature, a whirlwind, and charismatic on the radio," McLain said.
In 1976, during the Groundhog Gale, CFBC was the only radio station that remained on the air.
With Young at the helm, "it became like a command centre," said McLain.
"That was one of the highlights of his career, and it put CFBC on the map."
'Tom was the guy'
Todd Veinotte, who produced Young's afternoon news show and took over as host after his retirement, remembered Young as "the guy, back in the 1970s and into the 1980s."
"He was the boss — he brought in the numbers. He was CFBC."
While Veinotte and Young had "many disagreements" over the years, Veinotte said, "he taught me some important lessons — mainly, to never pretend to be anyone other than yourself, and never pretend you know something that you don't."
Tom
Young, pictured here with former premier Shawn Graham, was well-known
as a radio host in southern New Brunswick for nearly five decades. (Submitted by Trish Hamilton)
"He would drag himself into the studio no matter what. I remember one time he even had a bunch of teeth replaced, and he was just in agony, and he still dragged himself in and gave 100 per cent. He was an old-school radio guy, a pro."
Young could seem gruff to callers who ventured opinions on his Talk of the Town show, but Veinotte remembers the broadcaster's sense of humour.
"He was hilarious, always joking. He always used to say: 'never give the listener an opportunity to change the dial.'"
Young signed off for the last time in August 2011.
His "legacy was massive in southern New Brunswick," said Veinotte.
Mayor, town councillor
In addition to his radio career, Young's lifelong interest in politics led him to municipal governance.
He served as the mayor of Renforth from 1989 to 1992 and later for several terms as a Rothesay town councillor.
As a politician,"even if something was unpopular, he would stick to his guns," McLain said. "I remember going to his home and seeing the books on his shelves were all about politics and history.
"He came across as the everyday sort of guy, but he actually read very widely."
Young was known for his keen interest in local affairs, particularly politics. (Submitted by Trish Hamilton)
A softer side
Although blunt and uncompromising at work, at home Young was a soft-hearted family man.
"Everyone saw him as a tough, mean guy that never smiled, but his family knew him in another light," son Tyler Young said, adding that with him and his two sisters, Young "had a heart of gold."
He and his wife, Diana, were married for nearly 50 years. They moved after their retirement to St. John's, N.L., in order to be close to their four grandchildren, who were "his whole world," his son said.
Tom Young died Monday in a St. John's hospital of complications from knee surgery last week.
"Some people were just made to be something," said Tyler. "And he was made to be a radio announcer."
No funeral will be held, according to Young's wishes.
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