[VIDEO] The mna Pascal Bérubé accused of being “speaking anglophobe” by a columnist English-speaking

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The mna Pascal Bérubé

Marie-Renée Grondin

Thursday, 22-feb-2018 13:17

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While he has called on the minister of Culture, Marie Montpetit, in the room to ensure that it preserves the character of francophone Télé-Québec, the member pq Pascal Bérubé has been accused of”anglophobie”, on Twitter.

This issue of Pascal Bérubé occurs while the English-Language Arts Network (ELAN) is “pressure from the CRTC, so that Télé-Québec devotes 10 % of its budget and its programming in English”.

It is the columnist of The Gazette, Don Macpherson, who has decked out the qualifier, that has not enjoyed the house leader of the official opposition.

“The minister of Culture and Communications refuses to close the door to English-language productions at @TeleQuebec. I’ve asked the question three times this morning. It would have been easy to oppose it. Why ? #Assnat”, wrote on Twitter that Mr. Bérubé, who is also critical of national identity, which responded to Mr. Macpherson: “But there is no anglophobie in Quebec.”

“You accuse me of such a thing?”, said Mr. Bérubé.

“Yes,” said the columnist.

“Shame on you”, then launched the mp of the parti québecois.

“”French, please.””, concluded Mr. Macpherson, referring to the former leader of the Parti québécois, Pierre Karl Péladeau, who had dominated the headlines for having shouted this sentence to a concert of the quebec group Greenland, whose songs are in English.