Passing by Everyone is talking about it | Paul St-Pierre Plamondon admits to having been “too harsh” with the cultural community
“If I had to do it again, I would have less harsh words. » After causing an outcry by shooting an arrow at the cultural community this week, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon backtracks and apologizes.
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“I reacted spontaneously with a form of indignation,” admitted the leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), questioned on the set of Everyone is talking about it Sunday evening.
“The intellectual emptiness and aplaventrism of a substantial part of the Quebec cultural milieu are frankly embarrassing, I am ashamed,” decried the independence leader on X on Tuesday. He then shared an article from Radio-Canada discussing the positive reception given to Marc Miller as the new federal minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
On Wednesday, Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon added a layer, bluntly asserting that the cultural community lacked “loyalty” and “decency” towards Quebec because of the “praise” for Minister Miller.
“I wasn’t aiming for the whole middle”
On Sunday, the elected official chose to qualify his remarks.
“Obviously, I wasn’t targeting the entire cultural community. […] I apologize, those were too harsh words,” said the PQ leader.
During the week, many artists and columnists expressed their disagreement with the PQ leader. His statement about “lack of loyalty” made the rounds in the media.
To this end, he wishes to make it clear: his accusations of “intellectual vacuity and aplaventrism” were directed towards the people cited in the Radio-Canada article. However, “if I had to do it again, I would have less harsh words,” he admits.
“It started to spiral out of control. » His intention to “show sincere concern” for Quebec culture in French had become “a whole other debate”, he judges.
On the other hand, where Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon refuses to retract is in terms of his criticisms of Marc Miller himself.
“Marc Miller, Justin Trudeau and this group are probably the group of politicians who have done the most harm to Quebec in terms of French and culture in our recent history. »
The leader of the PQ accuses the federal Liberals of the “deconstruction of our French-speaking ecosystem in Quebec”, and maintains that he does not understand how influential cultural players can support the new minister in Ottawa.
