I’m 100% for Law 21. Singer-songwriter Émile Bilodeau hates Law 21 so much that he wore an anti-Law 21 button on National Day 2020. He has already referred to it as “the ostentation of misogyny, Islamophobia and a degrading law”.
Does that mean I’m against Émile Bilodeau hosting the national holiday this year? On the contrary, I’m for it! Long live freedom of expression!
On the other hand, I hope Bilodeau doesn’t take advantage of his platform to lecture us because he knows how to do it so well. On June 23rd we are here to celebrate Quebec. Not listening to a priest preach to us.
MOVEMENT AGAINST MOVEMENT
On my QUB radio show, Marilou Alarie of the Mouvement laïque Québécois explained to us why the Mouvement is surprised and disappointed that the Mouvement national des Québécoises and Québécois asked Émile Bilodeau to host the program on June 23rd. They do not find it “unifying”.
The next day, Frédéric Lapointe of the Mouvement national des Québécoises et Québécois told me that they would never choose the party’s hosts based on their political opinions.
I asked Émile Bilodeau to come to my show, he refused.
On the other hand, he agreed to speak to the exalted Devoir. And he said “that he has no intention of taking a stand against Law 21 on June 23.”
phew! Happily!
But he added that he “will take a stand against Glencore, owners of Horne Foundry in Rouyn-Noranda, during the show”.
And here’s what Bilodeau added:
“Our enemies are not women who want to dress differently and work in an undervalued field. It is the private companies that come here that are harming our environment and poisoning our children.”
But where in Law 21 do we qualify government officials who wear religious symbols as “enemies”? It is neither in the letter nor in the spirit of the law.
That’s Emile Bilodeau’s problem. He repeats clichés and generalities about a law he obviously doesn’t understand.
VOICE EDITORIAL
In his emblematic song that I remember, Émile Bilodeau sings: “I remember very well / The religion that had both hands / In our society / Faque we packed it up and modernized it.”
There are many things that have changed / But we never crashed / Faque why in 2020 / We are even more afraid of our neighbors?
The state’s secularism / It must be kept in good order / But not in spite of / All our friends who have lived here / For decades / Worse, who just / Want to go to work with their identity.
If one day my daughter / will be tutored / The Quiet Revolution / By a veiled woman / But Criss we’ll find out / Racism has always been wrong»
Hello, we agree that Émile Bilodeau is not a great poet.
His texts are didactic, not to say demagogic. One has the impression of reading a tedious session work of a CEGEP student.
My biggest criticism of the National Day organizers is that they chose an artist to sing the lily who… stays up to date with the daisies.
