The Quebec Community of Municipalities (UMQ) denounced the seditious behavior of CAQ member Pierre Dufour at a meeting of the Val-d’Or Municipal Council last Monday.
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“In a context where the Quebec government is promoting respect for local elected officials, the president of the UMQ (…) denounces the provocative attitude of MP Pierre Dufour during Monday’s Val-D’Or council meeting,” said he wrote the organization on Wednesday in a social media post.
The former Minister for Forests, Wildlife and Parks, present at the council meeting, said the municipality had failed police after Enquêtes broadcast a report on Radio-Canada in 2015.
In the report in question, journalists Josée Dupuis and Emmanuel Marchand used numerous examples and testimonies to show that the police posed a threat to Aboriginal women in Val-D’Or.
However, according to Mr Dufour, it is a “show full of lies” which has meant that Mayor Celine Brindamour’s administration has been forced to “work with a lot of shit” since taking office.
Then the CAQ MP argued that Radio-Canada’s report created a rift between the police force and the community, before attacking the Viens Commission’s conclusions on relations between Aboriginal people and certain public services in Quebec.
wandering
And while the problems of homelessness are so worrying the people of Val-d’Or that Mayor Brindamour believes the government must come to the community’s aid, Pierre Dufour argued that it was not for the government to intervene. for all the aggression issues that exist in Quebec.”
“The government is there to help financially and maybe put a program together if possible,” he argued Monday.
“It’s like saying: we don’t have the means anymore, put us under guardianship, the government will manage us,” he added.
In response to these remarks, the President of the UMQ, Martin Damphousse, supported the Mayor of Val-d’Or in her “search for solutions in the case of homelessness, despite the State’s withdrawal from this priority act”. .
contempt
“Completely shocked” by Pierre Dufour’s words, Québec Solidaire spokeswoman Manon Massé argued that the CAQ member “must retract his comments and apologize.”
“As MNA for Abitibi-Est, Mr. Dufour has to represent all citizens of the region. Like it or not, this includes Aboriginal people, women victims of violence and the homeless. Such great contempt for certain groups of citizens is unworthy of his position,” she said in a written statement to the media.