Quebec has allocated $24 million to combat homophobia and transphobia.
Perfect.
But there is a question burning on my lips, a question that can no longer be asked in the age of political correctness…
How much of this money will go toward combating homophobia and transphobia in cultural communities?
The list of homophobia
Let's stop burying our heads in the sand…
Homophobia and transphobia are very common in certain communities.
Think of the images we saw this year of Muslims angrily trampling on the rainbow flag to protest the teaching of gender theory in schools in Canada and Quebec.
These homophobic and transphobic demonstrations did not take place on the other side of the world, but here, at home.
Last year, the Observatory of Inequalities (an independent organization responsible for mapping inequalities in Europe and the world) compiled a list of the most homophobic countries in the world, where the practice of homosexuality is illegal and punishable by imprisonment or even corporal punishment becomes punishment.
We find Algeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Morocco, Sudan, Tanzania, Jamaica, Bangladesh and Iraq.
Same-sex relationships are punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, Nigeria, Brunei and Yemen.
And in Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan and Somalia, the death penalty can also be imposed on gays and lesbians, even if those countries' laws do not officially sanction homosexuality.
I'm not saying that all immigrants from these countries are homophobic. But they grew up in countries where it is said that homosexuals are the devil incarnate.
It has to leave a mark…
Radio silence!
A few years ago I interviewed a left-wing man who campaigned for gay rights in the Netherlands for the program Les Francs-Tireurs on Télé-Québec.
The man (who, I remind you, has campaigned in left-wing parties all his life) told me that we were seeing a significant increase in homophobic attacks in his country. And that there was a direct connection between this rise in homophobia in a country that has always been liberal and open, and the arrival on the territory of the Netherlands of a wave of immigrants from Muslim countries.
This interview was never broadcast. Télé-Québec (which began its transformation that now became Télé-Woke) found it too “sensitive.”
Listen: not politically correct enough.
Saying that some countries are more homophobic than others is “dangerous,” it seems.
Oh, of course we condemn the homophobia (or violence against women) of the native Quebecers, let's go!
But the homophobia of certain immigrants?
No, silence!
It does not exist!
Only among white people are gays and women shamelessly beaten!
So I ask my question again: What part of the $24 million released by Quebec will be used to combat homophobia and transphobia in cultural communities?