While violence against elected officials is exploding in the election campaign, and former mayor Labeaume denounces on all platforms the “toxic radio stations of Quebec”, another inadmissible slippage involving a Radio X host on social networks occurred this week.
Hounded on his unpaid municipal taxes despite 14 notices, as revealed The newspaper last week, Éric Duhaime ended up implying that the City of Quebec could be at the origin of this leakage of information.
Stung to the quick, Mayor Marchand replied on the airwaves of Midi info that it was “completely wacky”, that there was no conspiracy in it, and that the information was public.
The City of Quebec does publish each year the list of owners who are in default of payment of taxes to the point where their building could be the subject of a sale.
This is where the skid occurs, which caused quite a stir at Quebec City Hall, and which once again demonstrates that Quebec animators should weigh their words in order to stop contributing to the toxic climate.
aggressor priest
In a publication published on his Facebook page “Mrais Live-Radio X” on September 13, Dominic Mrais traces a dubious link between the priest who attacked him as a child and Mayor Bruno Marchand.
The host wrote this: “Ishhhh, I don’t really like that word… ‘Farfelu’ was the term used by my attacking priest during his arrest… A year later… we managed to put in jail. Fa Que… You have to watch out for the excitement of the mayor in the red shoes who, these days, seems to display an unusual level of stress… #angermanagement #snickers (SIC). »
Mr. Mrais has certainly experienced difficult times in connection with this aggression which he has been talking about openly for years. The idea here is above all not to question the personal drama he experienced. It has nothing to do. But it is always risky to play with words like this on social networks, where conspiracy theories are legion.
M would have said he apologized
At Quebec City Hall, since this publication, we have had to manage unfortunate and inappropriate comments from Internet users who appeared on the mayor’s Facebook page, and where links were traced between the mayor and child molesters. , we were confirmed to his office.
The publication of Mr. Mrais was later withdrawn, but without any apology or rectification, which his cabinet deplores. To know what the consequences of this incident could be, Thomas Gaudreault, the mayor’s press secretary, declared: “We are not ruling anything out for the moment”.
After a call from Journal specifying the subject of our request, Dominic Mavais acknowledged, in writing, the totally inappropriate nature of his publication, and the comparison “really inappropriate” in the circumstances.
“I’m not going to cut corners, it was a mix of genres that was sassy, without nuance and without substance. The mayor has the right to choose the vocabulary he wants. We retain the right to criticize it, but in the right way. »
After the exchange with The newspaperthe host took steps to apologize to the mayor by telephone, of which he himself informed us.
RNC Media, owner of Radio X, did not call back The newspaper.
50 years of disgust
Be that as it may, elected officials and stakeholders from various backgrounds have long denounced certain Quebec radio hosts, whether we think of Jean-Paul L’Allier or Catherine Dorion.
On show In the media, this week, Régis Labeaume once again denounced this toxic climate in Quebec. “You know, André Arthur started working on the radio in 1970. We’ve been living in this disgusting environment for 50 years, 50 years. »
What are we waiting for to react and ensure that these intolerable excesses in our society stop once and for all? This toxic climate that rots democratic life in Quebec must end.