MP and aspiring solidarity spokesperson Christine Labrie defended her former colleague Catherine Dorion in a long message on Facebook.
What I feel most strongly is a mixture of sadness and guilt for not seeing the extent of Catherine’s grief, she wrote.
“Like many of my colleagues, I underestimated his suffering and after reading the story of his time on the Solidarity Committee, I feel guilty,” Ms Labrie added.
The former Solidaire MP for Taschenreau has just published a harsh book in which she harshly criticizes the parliamentary leader of Quebec Solidaire, Gabriel Nadeau Dubois, the work of MPs in the National Assembly and journalists.
Christine Labrie also criticizes the work of the media in her message. She says that during a press conference about the Laurent Commission and autistic children, a journalist instead asked whether Catherine’s efforts to support the Maipoils movement had damaged the party’s credibility.
It was Manon who answered. Maybe it’s better this way, because I wanted to tell him that he was the one who damaged his own credibility as a journalist with this question. Apparently, at that moment, he preferred to feed the click machine rather than deal with the way in which vulnerable children are cared for in Quebec, she says.
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In her book Les têtes brûlés, Catherine Dorion looks back on the many obstacles she faced during her four-year term as an MP.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Alexandre Duval
However, it never occurred to me that Catherine was responsible for the lack of interest in our political work. “It is the journalists and columnists who are responsible for the issues they raise or remain silent about,” continues the Solidarity MP for Sherbrooke.
We don’t have the slightest control over the issues that appear in the newspapers or go completely silent, and Catherine’s departure has not changed the fact that most of our work still goes unnoticed.
Christine Labrie admits she doesn’t have the same vision of a parliamentarian’s work as her former colleague.
His vision of representation is to provide a show that aims to generate emotion and evoke a social movement. My job is to communicate citizens’ concerns to influence decisions and create changes that improve life in the world. Both are absolutely necessary and feed off each other, she explains.
Last week, Gabriel Nadeau Dubois also responded to Catherine Dorion on Facebook, claiming that the story she told about her time in politics was disturbing and admitting that their relationship had not been easy.