A Conservative candidate in the early 2010s multiplied hate speech against language laws and the Parti Québécois (PQ) using references to the Nazi regime and South African apartheid, our investigative office found.
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Louis-Charles Fortier, who is running behind Jacques-Cartier in western Montreal under the banner of the Quebec Conservative Party, spoke out strongly against the PQ’s takeover at the time.
“What awaits us now? Will Pauline Marois ask every Anglo to put an “A” on their shirt and on their house,” he wrote in English on 5 Das NS-Regime in Deutschland.
apartheid
“The PQ is apartheid and should be seen by the rest of the world for what it really is: a government that persecutes a minority, deprives individual rights, all in the name of francophone supremacy,” he wrote again on September 5 afterward the election of Mrs Marois as Prime Minister.
He believed that the measures taken to protect the French were the cause of an economic decline in Quebec. “[La Loi 101] created a false sense of protection in some Francophones by excluding me, which in turn has destroyed the economic infrastructure of what was once the economic empire of Canada,” he claimed on January 4, 2012.
Louis-Charles Fortier, reached by our investigative office, justified his comments with the context that would have prevailed in Quebec at the time. “I have a little regret, but not much,” he explained.
At that time, he claims, Anglophones were discriminated against. Mr Fortier says he was particularly unhappy because a nurse refused to speak English to treat his wife, a monolingual Anglophone.
Otherwise difficult
“At the time of Pauline Marois […] With everything that happened, it was difficult to react differently,” he says.
Mr. Fortier, computer network architect at Bell Canada, is running for the second time under the colors of the Quebec Conservative Party. In the 2018 elections, he received almost 2.6% of the votes for Jacques-Cartier.
He was also part of the team of Éric Caire, the outgoing CAQ minister, during the 2009 ADQ leadership race.
Called for a response, the PCQ argued that interpreting Mr Fortier’s comments in this way was a matter of “pure extrapolation” and “judgment of intent”.
Which he also wrote on the web
“Unfortunately, not all prisons are built of brick and mortar; Some are built with laws and ignorance. We are faced with this situation. We are the Berliners who are watching the building of the Wall and doing nothing about it. I cannot stand idly by as Bill 14 divides and imprisons us. Can you?”
April 1, 2013
“But it could be worse. Will the CAQ do what people expected it to do and reach out to the francophone racists? It is truly a sad day for democracy in Quebec.”
September 20, 2012
“That’s what I’m saying: the PQ is an apartheid regime in the making.”
September 7, 2012
“The PQ have a deep hatred of Anglos and want them to have fewer rights than Francophones.”
September 7, 2012
“Legault, have you been misguided or seduced by the concept of a master race in Quebec that you have forgotten logic and common sense?”
April 27, 2013
“The other day I saw friends and neighbors voting for the PQ. It was heartbreaking. Maybe they didn’t see it that way, but they voted against my friends and family. One has to remember and wonder how the Jews felt when their non-Jewish friends and neighbors voted for the Nazis. Again, I’m not comparing the PQ to the Nazis, and I’m not suggesting that English speakers in Quebec suffered as much under the Nazis as Jews; I compare similar situations where seemingly minor betrayals hit a minority because the majority have lost their sense of community and humanity. I do not deny that the Jews were in trouble under the Nazi regime.”
September 7, 2012
“Do you want an Aryan DNA test with that?”
About the PQ charter of values, August 29, 2013
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