(Quebec) Quebec elected officials pleaded for appeasement on Friday, on the eve of a demonstration planned in Montreal and in the context where several demonstrators are agitated on social networks.
Posted at 10:10 a.m.
Liberal health spokesperson Monsef Derraji said in a press briefing that he understood that Quebecers wanted to express their fatigue. But “no one is going to win if there is an escalation of violence,” he said.
The deputy appealed for calm and caution, a few minutes before the start of his interpellation with the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, on the question of the management of the pandemic.
An interpellation on Friday is an opportunity for opposition MNAs to question, for two hours in the Blue Room, a minister on an issue of their choice.
The parliamentary leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), Joël Arseneau, argued Friday morning that it was possible to debate these things “in a serious and rigorous way”.
“Will we be better prepared […] to a future pandemic? What conclusions can we draw? Is it normal […] not to do a post mortem on what happened? he asked.
“Any serious organization, once an important event has passed, will reflect and say: ‘What worked well, how can we improve for the future’”, he adds.
Mr. Arseneau declared that it was generally necessary “to avoid adding oil to the fire, to stigmatize certain layers of the population”, in order to rather “open the dialogue”.