33 quotes landmark Jean-Marc Fournier

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Jean-Marc Fournier

Marie-Renée Grondin

Monday, march 5, 2018 17:40

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The government house leader and minister responsible for Relations with canadian, Jean-Marc Fournier, announced on Monday his withdrawal from political life. His career has been marked by his outspokenness and his quick mind that led him to make several returns outstanding. Here are a few highlights in chronological order:

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About the vice-head of the Parti québécois Véronique Hivon in response to the fact that the prime minister Philippe Couillard has refused to respond to him in the Room:

“What surprised me is that the vice-chief acts as chief when the chief is there. If the PQ leader was not there and that the deputy head was acting as vice-chief as the leader, I think that the prime minister would respond. But when the chief is here, the chief does not ask for the leave by the vice-head, there is more in the tactical, more than in the roles and institutions.” – February 7, 2018

About the quebec caucus of the federal liberals:

“We have the means to make ourselves heard. Now […] is it always our business, how it is received? Sometimes it works; sometimes, it works less well.” – January 1, 2018

About unfounded allegations of Yves Francoeur, who claimed that Jean-Marc Fournier was engaged in a traffic of influence:

“The minimum would be that it is in the media in the next few hours and that he was sorry to have spread false allegations, to the limit that it explains its actions.” – December 19, 2017

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About the arrest of liberal mna Guy Ouellette:

“The Quebec whole wish there was more explanation, that’s obvious.” – October 30, 2017

About the election shattering of the caquiste Geneviève Guilbault in Louis-Hébert:

“This is a thunderclap. A clap of thunder, you hear it and it is analysis […]. I can tell you one thing : we’re not going to trivialize it.” October 3, 2017

About the integrity of the quebec territory in the event of a referendum:

“Spain said: we are indivisible. Jacques Parizeau used to say: the province of Quebec separate would be indivisible. So, what is the consequence? Let us be careful in the nuances. This can have consequences. I urge you to shades.” – September 21, 2017

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About his political future, following allegations of Yves Francoeur:

“At one point, you are wondering what it’s for, the policy.” – September 18, 2017

About the election of the ex-student leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois:

“I think that for democracy in québec, to have different points of view, this is not that useful.” – June 6, 2017

About the revival of discussions on the Constitution so that the council of ministers had been held in ignorance:

“There has been a presentation, at least 45 minutes, PowerPoint, pretty developed, which makes the turn of the case. There have been exchanges, so much so that some of the exchanges are contained in the document.” – June 6, 2017

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About the revelations about the links between Philippe Couillard and ex-political organizer Marc-Yvan Côté:

“If you refer to the first page, almost one-third of the first page this morning, in the media, Quebecor, I think that this information, in its processing, is more of political discourse in partisan new politics.” -31 may 2017

About its misrepresentation in the room to the effect that it was the Sûreté du Québec who had “identified what were the key-words” to withdraw the evidence seized by the UPAC in the offices of the QLP in 2014, while it was his party:

“This morning, I said words that were perhaps not the most accurate. I am before you today, in this moment, a few minutes or hours after, to tell you how I understand the situation […] from there, I don’t take most other issues, I am not a specialist in the matter. So, if you want to know if I’m wrong, I’ll stop fooling me, I will not answer your questions up there.” – May 10, 2017

About the documentary on the history of Canada, which ignores the deportation of the Acadians and depicts Samuel de Champlain as a “latin lover” dirty and repelling:

“There’s a bone in Story of Us. You will understand that I believe that the CBC should apologize.” – April 6, 2017

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About the leader of the Bloc québécois, Martine Ouellet, who will be awarded his salary as a member of the national Assembly since it maintains its seat of an independent Quebec:

“This is not normal that this is the tax that Quebec pays a charge federal. Here, we are fighting precisely so that [the federal government] assumes his bills. And there, it is that the PQ is forcing us to take bills of the federal government.” – March 21, 2017

About the Parti québécois, which has undertaken a reform in order to rejuvenate the party following a report that coup-de-poing, revealing that 68 % of the members of the PQ have over 55 years of age:

“I’ve said it at least 10 times, 20 times, that the PQ was exceeded. Today, it comes from the PQ itself.” – February 8, 2017

About the leader of the CAQ, when he said want to charge the rich to relieve the poor:

“François Legault is lost, he is looking for a land, it is a great browser.” – December 13, 2016

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About the leader of the CAQ, which, according to him, is inspired of Donald Trump and cultivate cynicism in criticizing too harshly the government:

“Those who speak of catastrophism, and culture which always leads us to find that there is nothing good, as did Mr. Legault, who seems to be inspired by Mr. Trump, we are bringing into a cynicism that is without end and without respect for our institutions and the hope that our fellow citizens can have.” – November 10, 2016

About the application of the mna Harold Lebel, which would have formally requested that Gerry Sklavounos ceases to annoy a press officer of his party, in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him:

“I do not even know the content of the information that circulated at that time. I don’t even have any idea of what events you’re talking about.” – 26 October 2016

About the Parti québécois and the candidates in the leadership race of the party:

“Every day, they are working to separate Quebec from the rest of Canada, they will be disconnected from the Quebecers as a whole, they will not work to bring together the people of Quebec.” October 5, 2016

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About the burkini:

“The State has no place neither in the bedrooms nor in the closets of its citizens.” – August 19, 2016

About the end of the applause during question period:

“If we take up the debate, Quebecers as a whole will consider this institution for what it is, that is to say, a beacon, a model, an example.” – September 15, 2015

About the extension of the mandate of the Charbonneau Commission:

“We have confidence in the commission and if they make requests there must be reasons (…). Of course we wish that it ends as soon as possible, but it is the quality of the work that is of the first importance” – January 28, 2015

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About access to information:

“Transparency is one of the keys to exercising a healthy democracy, for the population to have confidence in the State, its institutions and its elected representatives.” – November 12, 2014

About the contradictions of Bernard Drainville and its charter of values:

“Blunders and contradictions spectacular! His own minister said that he does not want to do to keep her children by a person wearing a religious symbol, but the same minister pays a government advertising with his picture in the pamphlet for the parish. Is ostentatious a leaflet for the parish?” – November 23, 2014

About the permanence in life of André Boisclair in the public service:

“She (Pauline Marois) has deceived the Quebecois!” October 1, 2013

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About the abandonment of the Plan nord by the Parti québécois:

“The economy is down in Quebec by your own fault.” – September 17, 2013

About the government of Pauline Marois who he accuses of having plagiarized the Plan nord by announcing investments of 870 million dollars for the northern development:

“It’s not bad a lot of the copy-and-paste, and unfortunately, they have managed to miss the copy-and-paste.” – May 7, 2013

About the meteoric rise of the rate of dissatisfaction with the pq government:

“There are results of surveys showing that there are difficulties on the side of Ms. Marois or dissatisfaction, I am not surprised because I like to share.” -13 march 2013

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About the right to strike student:

“There are some who want to change it, they are assuming that there is a legal vacuum because the civil disobedience, non-compliance of judgments (courts) provide new rights (…) there is no right to strike. Block the bridges and the metro, it does not give the right to strike.” – February 19, 2013

At about 357C, an exclusive club of Old-Montreal, mentioned at the Charbonneau commission, which is frequented by politicians:

“Is this to go there or to another place, because the Charbonneau commission talks about it, suddenly it is an event ? Me, I went in plenty of places, full of restaurants so I don’t know why it is necessary to focus on this one. These are questions about people (who are raised to the commission), not on the place.” – November 28, 2012

About the revelations regarding the existence of a system of illegal financing of the political party of Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay, Union Montreal:

“The time has come where he must give a clear explanation to citizens. If he does not, the situation will become unbearable.” – October 30, 2012

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When he was appointed interim leader of the liberal Party:

“It is with honor and humility that I accept the function of interim leader of the Quebec liberal Party.We will get to work immediately to go to regain the trust of the population”, promising to be a strong opposition. – September 12, 2012

About the testimony of Isabelle Gaston at Tout le monde en parle, which has actually bend the government on the financial compensation paid for each child who has lost life:

“There is no shame to say that sometimes, there are events that make us aware to go faster on a reflection was already underway. We are all human.” – March 21, 2012

About the lowering, by the liberal government in the limit campaign contributions to $ 1,000 to allay the cynicism of the population:

“I think that what we do is we restore public confidence in the rules of financing of political parties.” – November 25, 2010

To emphasize this excerpt from his master’s thesis in 1991 where he criticised the amending formula of the constitution by Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

It is a discovery of Antoine Robitaille who, in his column of Memory members, published on the website of the Duty in 2013, pointed out that Mr. Fournier argued that “the canadian union was in a “cul-de-sac” because it is “distrust [that] characterizes it”.

Only a constituent assembly, he maintained, could save this country, proven by the “coup de force” of 1982: “On “canadianisera” truly the Constitution, the day on which a consensus will establish itself in the five regions of the country and in the two territories, on what should be our common interests, the purposes that should continue with the federal authority. If it lends itself to this exercise in a serious and generous, it can’t be that profitable. In the event that a consensus cannot be reached and where it would then be necessary to conclude that the inability of this union to last, he would break. There is no need to fear this eventuality. It is important not to avoid exercise because of this event. If this assumption materializes, the rupture will be that much more easily if it is the result of a serious examination of the advantages and disadvantages of the canadian union, whether it is the result of an observation is non-partisan and objective, that no common interest retain only certain regions within this union”, argued in her masters!