Rappel: Récemment, un texte faisant l'apologie du fascisme publié par un certain Bernard Guay attirait notre attention. Une enquête de Québec Facho-Watch a révélé que cet individu a un poste de haut-fonctionnaire dans le cabinet du ministre Lessard. Ses prises de positions ouvertement fascistes contreviennent totalement avec le code d'éthique de la fonction publique. Suite à nos protestations, des sanctions de nature inconnue furent prises contre M. Guay.

Aujourd'hui, l'enquête de Québec Facho-Watch révèle que Bernard Guay n'est pas seulement un sympathisant fasciste : il est un militant néo-fasciste violent, anti-avortement et catholique intégriste actif, et ce depuis le début des années '90.

Des sanctions "de nature inconnue" ne sont pas suffisantes. Nous sommes face à une situation alarmante : un militant ouvertement néo-fasciste occupe un poste de haut-fonctionnaire dans notre gouvernement. Québec Facho-Watch exige sa démission et son retrait immédiat de toutes fonctions gouvernementales. Ce ne sont pas simplement ses propos qui sont scandaleux, c'est l'individu lui-même !

Bernard Guay et le Cercle Jeune Nation

Dans les faits, Bernard Guay militait pour un organisation néo-fasciste du nom de "Jeune Nation". Il a publié plusieurs textes dans leur organe de propagande, les Cahiers de Jeune Nation. Ces textes sont disponibles aux Archives Nationales (les numéros de janvier 1995, mars 1994 et septembre 1994). L'équipe de Québec Facho-Watch a récupéré des photocopies pour vous (voir en fin d'article).

Les Cahiers de Jeune Nation étaient la publication officielle du Cercle Jeune Nation, organisation catholique intégriste et néo-fasciste fondée en 1986 et qui essayait de regrouper les différents sections de l'extrême-droite Québecoise dans les années 90. Ils se sont inspirés du mouvement de leurs camarades européens du même nom, qui fut un mouvement ouvertement néo-fasciste et pétainiste (le Maréchal Pétain fut le chef d'État de la France sous Adolf Hitler).

Parmi les membres les plus influents du Cercle Jeune Nation on retrouve plusieurs militants néo-fascistes tel que Francois Dumas (président-fondateur), Gilbert Gendron (co-fondateur). Est bien connu dans le mouvement anti-raciste), Rock Tousignant (co-fondateur), Jean-Claude Dupuis (Lepéniste, éditeur des Cahiers et actif dans l'Action Nationale), Pierre Trepannier (pro-fasciste) et ... Bernard Guay !

On compte parmi leurs collaborateurs des militants néo-fascistes comme Thomas Molnar (raciste et éditeur d'un magazine pro-fasciste).

En 1994, Jeune Nation a publié un texte nommé "Pour une étude scientifique du fascisme" qui s'est ensuite transformé en véritable plate-forme politique. Dans l'édition de Janvier 1995 des Cahiers de Jeune Nation, ils publient les idées du théoricien nazi Oswald Spengler ainsi que de Francis Parker Yockey, un néo-nazi auteur de livres anti-sémites. Leurs opinions ne font aucun doute, ils furent même expulsés de la Société Saint-Jean Baptiste après avoir tenté de les récupérer avec leurs idées fascistes.

Jeune Nation a travaillé avec plusieurs groupes racistes dont "SOS Génocide", "Mouvement pour une immigration restreinte et francophone", "Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform", "Campagne Québec-Vie", et même le "England National Front" !

Le Cercle Jeune Nation était également proche de l'organisation "Ralliement Provincial des Parents de Quebec" (RPPQ), un regroupement néo-fasciste, raciste, anti-sémite, anti-choix, pro-franquiste et pétainistes ! Jeune Nation et le RPPQ ont d'ailleurs organisé plusieurs conférences du théoricien néo-fasciste Arnaud de Lassus en 1988.

Leurs chevaux de batailles furent le catholicisme intégriste, la lutte contre l'avortement, l'antisémitisme, les idées néo-fascistes, le nationalisme ethnique et l'opposition à l'immigration. Ce n'est pas une surprise d'apprendre que Jeune Nation avait tendance à imaginer des conspirations gauchistes partout, ce qui déteint encore aujourd'hui dans les discours de Bernard Guay ainsi que dans ses conférences.

Suite à sa récente apologie du fascisme dans le journal Le Soleil, il est indéniable que Bernard Guay a toujours les mêmes opinions ouvertement néo-fascistes qu'il a depuis maintenant une vingtaine d'années.

Articles sur l'organisation "Jeune Nation"

A Look At The Catholic Far Right In Quebec

By Cede Elle, 25 May 1996

Many people think of the Church as a relic of the past, a worn out and old-fashioned institution catering to a small and irrelevent clientele. Yet as this year's mobilisation against Human Life International taught us, Roman Catholicism's militant right-wing is still an important proponent of racism, sexism and homophobia around the world.

The day after thousands of us gathered to demonstrate against HLI - and to play cat and mouse with Montreal's riot cops - I had a chance to slip into the Radisson Hotel where the right-wing group was meeting. Acting like the good Christian that my grandmother hopes I am, I walked around their literature hall looking at the different stuff on sale. Among the plastic foetuses, the rosaries and the brochures for various Catholic universities were all of the homophobic, misogynist and racist materials you would expect at such a conference.

At one stall I chatted with John Cotter, a longtime friend of the Canadian fascist movement and owner of The Angelus Books of Barrie, Ontario. Cotter proudly showed me his books from the right-wing American John Birch Society, and I bought several publications from Action Familiale et Scolaire, a Catholic-fascist group based in France. In these books I read about how Moslems should be expelled from France, how Judaism is really synonymous with Freemasonry, which in turn is the Catholic Church's worst enemy, and about how there is an international conspiracy to invent historical crimes against Native peoples in Latin America in order to blame Spain and the Catholic Church!

It is true that Christianity is so right-wing as to be actually fascist in nature in not very common in Quebec. While the Church was a major locus of power when this province was at one time ruled on behalf of Anglo-Canadian big business by the ultraconservative Union Nationale, all of that changed with the Revolution Tranquille. As Maurice Duplessis was laid to rest and Catholicism liberalized itself under the aegis of Vatican II, a French Canadian business class in conjunction with a righteous Quebecois nationalist movement saw to it that Quebec entered modern, "democratic" civilization. As the Parti Quebecois and the Quebec Liberal Party competed as to who could modernize society the fastest, the old right and Catholic conservatism practically disappeared, transforming Quebec from the bastion of Catholicism in North America to the most secular province in relatively secular Canada. This is why, when Human Life International came to town, they attracted so little local support and Father Paul Marx was left complaining about how "Quebec has lost its Catholic soul."

Yet HLI does have some local support, and just as the far-right around the world is on the offensive, our local Catholic fascists are also on the move. While they remain numerically insignificant, they have been able to tap into a reservoir of conservatism left dormant in Quebec society by the Revolution Tranquille, and have used their religious credentials to gain access to positions of power in the Montreal Catholic School Commission, this city's most important school board.

Introducing Quebec's Catholic Fascists

Two magazines distributed by John Cotter's Angelus Bookstore come from Montreal: Cahiers de Jeune Nation, a fascist journal published by the Cercle Jeune Nation, and Confidentiel, a journal about international conspiracies published by Gilbert Gendron, a former employee of the South African consulate and a founding member of Jeune Nation.

The Cercle Jeune Nation was founded in 1986 by Gilbert Gendron, Francois Dumas and Rock Tousignant. These pseudo-intellectuals and their friends seek to construct a French Canadian fascist ideology. While the group is fervently Catholic and nationalistic, it sees little to praise in either contemporary Catholicism or today's Quebecois nationalist movement. While the Church is regarded as being too "soft" and tolerant most of today's nationalists are seen as having abandoned the cornerstones of a "true" French Canadian identity: race and religion. Rejecting grassroots struggle, CJN members take pride in their elitism and limit themselves to theorizing and trying to influence organizations through infiltration. For example, at one point it tried take over the Societe Saint Jean Baptiste, but its members were expelled. (This expulsion was not easily decided upon, though, and several SSJB board members voted against it. One of these, Francois Albert-Angers, has repeatedly seen fit to write for the CJN's journal.)

The CJN has also attracted the support of certain right-wing academics: in 1993 there was a brief controversy when it was revealed the Universite of Montreal History professor Pierre Trepannier had written a tribute to fascism for the Cahiers de Jeune Nation. More recently, in 1994 Dimitri Kitsikis, a history Professor at the University of Ottawa, had two articles published by Cercle. One of these articles, "Pour une etude scientifique du fascisme", went so far as to include a political platform which Kitsikis proposed all fascist organisations adopt.

Cercle Jeune Nation has worked with other racist groups such as SOS Genocide and the Mouvement pour une immigration restreinte et francophone. CJN member Gilbert Gendron has even written two booklets for the Toronto-based Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform, an important fascist group with important ties to several of English Canada's nastier anti-French organizations! The Cahiers de Jeune Nation has also reprinted articles from European fascist journals, notably Spearhead, the organ of the England's National Front.

Yet the group with which the CJN has worked most closely over the past ten years is the Ralliement Provincial des Parents de Quebec, based in Sherbrooke. This group was formed in 1979, and acts primarily as a voice for ultraright-wing Catholics concerned about the secularization of Quebec society, most especially its schools. Since 1987 the RPPQ has published a bimonthly newspaper called Nation Nouvelle. While Jeune Nation members have written for this rag, most of the articles are written by the RPPQ's main man Achille Larouche and other right-wing Catholics perhaps a little less eager to publicly declare themselves fascists. Edmond Robillard, a priest who lives in Outremont, has written articles in almost every issue of Nation Nouvelle.

The RPPQ is less critical of the Vatican than the Cercle Jeune Nation. The group's ideology is clearly spelled across the first page of last December's Nation Nouvelle: "Nous ne voulons pas d'un etat athee immoral favorisant une immigration d'extinction." Further proof of the RPPQ's fascist sympathies include articles praising Field Marshal Petain, the leader of Vichy France who cooperated fully with Hitler's Nazis in the Second World War, and General Franco, who on behalf of the Catholic Church and Spanish fascists crushed the Spanish Revolution.

The RPPQ has organized public assemblies, rallies and marches in defense of traditional Catholicism. In the brief it submitted to the Quebec Commission on Sovereignty, the group laid out its 12-point proposal for a sovereign Quebec: a Constitution based on the Ten Commandments and the "rights of God", no more abortion, incentives for women to have as many children as possible, a halt to the "inassimilable" immigration of Moslems and other non-Christians, referred to as an "invasion".

What differentiates the Catholic from other forms of fascism is its commitment to tradition and reliance on bizarre conspiracy theories involving Freemasons. Most issues of Nation Nouvelle include references to such "Freemason conspiracies". It must be understood that while these racists talk about "Freemasons", what they really mean is Jews. This is admitted by French fascist Arnaud de Lassus, a friend of the RPPQ's, in the chapter "Freemasonry and Judaism" of his book "The Elementary Knowledge of Freemasonry". Since 1988 Jeune Nation and the RPPQ have organized several tours of M. de Lassus in Quebec.

The Centre D'Information Nationale

In 1990, following the defeat of Brian Mulroney's Meech Lake Accord which the RPPQ had hoped would free Quebec from the Canadian Charter of Rights, several Catholic fascists came together to form the "Centre d'information nationale", later known as the "Centre d'information nationale Robert Rumilly". This group intended to safeguard what the far-right views as Quebec's identity by building a "mouvement de droite chretienne" and doing battle with "integrisme laique." In an official CIN document it is explained that "one's identity includes religion, ethnicity and language."

The original membership of the CIN included Rock Tousignant, at the time a member of Jeune Nation, and Edmond Robillard and Achille Larouche of the RPPQ, as well as a half dozen other right-wingers. Of note among the group's original membership was Gilles Grondin, the president of Campagne Quebec Vie, the provincial affiliate of the Campaign Life Coalition, Canada's major anti-abortion organization.

The membership of Quebec's chief anti-abortion crusader in a fascist organisation like the CIN is predictable. All across North America fascists have joined forces with anti-abortionists; both fear women's control over their bodies and view decriminalized abortion as part of the liberalization of sexual mores as well as a demographic threat to the "nation" and "race". Across Canada anti-abortionists have been linked to neo-nazi groups like the Heritage Front, the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, etc.

If Campagne Quebec Vie's political proclivities are unexceptional, this is not to say that Grondin's far-right associations are without importance. It is certainly no accident that Vitalite, CQV's monthly newspaper, has advertised conferences of the CIN and Jeune Nation where fascists like Arnaud de Lassus and Pierre Trepannier expounded on their worldview. The pages of Vitalite have purported to "expose" conspiracies of Freemasons, one-worlders and others bent on destroying Christian civilization. CQV presented a brief to the PQ's Commission on the Future of Quebec (Commission dur l'avenir du Quebec) arguing that there was a worldwide conspiracy that was using abortion to destroy traditional Quebec society by reducing the birthrate of francophones and allowing too many immigrants to enter. More recently Edmond Robillard, the priest who works so closely with the RPPQ and the CIN, has become one of Vitalite's assistant editors.

But the most startling thing about Quebec's Catholic fascists is not their proximity to our local anti-abortion zealots. Like I said, there's nothing unusual there. What is unusual is the degree of power that these fascists wield within the school system, most notably in the Regroupement Scolaire Confessionel.

The Regoupement Scolaire Confessionel

"Regroupement Scolaire Confessionel" is the name that candidates supported by the Mouvement Scolaire Confessionel give themselves come the school board elections. Ultraconservatives united under this banner have held power in the Montreal Catholic School Commission - this city's most important school board - for over ten years. The RSC's political success, guaranteed by a low voter turnout for school board elections, is responsible for the fact that despite overwhelming public opinion in favour of a secular education system Montreal's schools remains religious. The RSC has repeatedly dabbled in xenophobia and racism during its reign. For instance, in 1988, it fired a Chilean-born employee because of his Spanish accent. The next year, it sent parents a questionnaire that asked whether immigrant children should be forced to go to separate schools. In 1990 its chairman, Michel Pallascio, suggested to the provincial government that it favour immigrants with "Judeo-Christian values", and its board considered a proposal to punish youth and children who spoke languages other than French on school grounds.

The RSC is intimately tied to the Catholic Right. The organization that chooses which candidates may run under the banner of the RSC, the Mouvement Scolaire Confessionel, was itself founded by the Association des Parents Catholiques du Quebec in 1970 and remains a project of this group. It is the APCQ that recently made the news by calling for two sex education books to be banned from high schools because they were deemed "practically pornographic." More generally, according to Isabelle Pallascio (the group's vice-president), the association not only opposes any talk of parents or students being allowed to vote on whether a school should be Catholic or secular, but even regrets the fact that students are offered a choice between Religion and Morals classes! Both the APCQ and the MSC are housed on the fourth floor of 7400 St-Laurent; an adjacent dining area includes several display cases full of right-wing literature: materials from Campagne Quebec Vie, booklets in defense of private schools, and loads of leaflets from Human Life International!

While the MSC is a project of the APCQ, it should be noted that once candidates it supports are elected to the school board they may act independantly of these organizations; nevertheless, seeing as the MSC's support is often crucial for their election and re-election, they are unlikely to rock the boat too much. Thus, the MSC's religious and political foundations explain the positions takes by RSC commissioners on issues ranging from maintaining religious schools to keeping condoms away from students. Furthermore, the MSC's choice of who to support in the MCSC elections is revealing of an openness towards the far-right.

The longtime leader of the RSC is Michel Pallascio, Isabelle Pallascio's son. Mr. Pallascio is the actual president of the MCSC, and has been described as a "pillar on integrism" in Quebec. His name also appears on a 1992 list of members of the Association des Juristes Catholiques du Quebec. This group has been fairly inactive over the past few years, but in the 1980s its founding president, Emile Colas, repeatedly made the headlines; in 1987 Colas publicly proposed that AIDS would only be stopped through the "elimination" of homosexuals and prostitutes, and in the early 80s had seen fit to represent a fascist group (Young Canadians for a Christian Civilization) in its quest to get an injunction banning the feminist play "Les fees ont soif". Other AJCQ members include Andre Morais (the founder of the Front Commun pour la respect de la vie in the 1980s), Pierre Labelle of the CIN, five judges, a former mayor of Outremont, and Achille Larouche and Edmond Robillard of the RPPQ!

As president of the MCSC, Pallascio's ties to the far-right are certainly very important. Yet he is not the only candidate supported by the Mouvement Scolaire Confessionel with such ties. Last December it was revealed that Pierre Messier, an RSC candidate in last year's school board elections, was an important member of the "Mouvement pour une immigration restreinte et francophone". This group, known as MIREF, is perhaps less fervently Catholic than the other racist groups mentioned in this article, yet is certainly the closest to today's Quebec Independence movement. Unlike Jeune Nation, the RPPQ and their Catholic-fascist friends, the MIREF always supported Quebec independence and called upon its members to actively recruit among PQ supporters. While the group, which called upon banning non-francophone and non-European immigrants from Quebec, dissolved late last year, its members are still active, many of them having since joined the Cercle Jeune Nation.

Maurice Prevost, school commissioner for the Duvernay region of the MCSC, is another such fascist. Unlike Messier, Prevost was one of the RSC's winners in last year's election, being chosen as commissioner for the Duvernay district. Prevost is the CIN's treasurer and past spokesperson for the Regroupement Provincial des Parents Chretiens. It was on behalf of the latter group that Prevost spoke at a press conference "for the rights of God and the duties of man" in 1993, where he shared the podium with Achille Larouche of the RPPQ, Gilles Grondin of Campagne Quebec Vie and Jean-Claude Bleau, also of the Centre d'information nationale. This April Prevost caught the attention of Voir magazine when he spoke at Human Life International's Montreal conference. According to the reporter who was in attendance, the school commissioner described Quebec as being at the gateway to hell, with homosexuality, immigration and abortion chief on his list of social ills.

Another RSC school commissioner, Ronald Poupart, may or may not have ties to the Cercle Jeune Nation. A blatantly racist article signed "Ronald Poupart" in the January 1995 issue of Cahiers de Jeune Nation describes the ideas of Nazi theorist Oswald Spengler and Francis Parker Yockey, a rabid anti-semite whose book Imperium became a Bible to post-war neo-nazis. It includes observations such as: "At the least sign of military or political weakness in the West, they (meaning non-Europeans) will rebel and reject everything we've given them or turn around and use these as weapons against us. Between them and us there is an unbridgeable opposition of a spiritual nature." It should be noted that RSC commissioner Poupart has not admitted to writing this article, and so it is always possible that the author is another "Ronald Poupart"...

Why do the RSC's connections to the Catholic hard right matter? For several reasons. As commissioners, these reactionaries get to appoint principals to the schools in their district. They can also have groups visit schools to prostelytize amongst students - as did RSC commissioner Peter Kelly earlier this year when he had a pro-chastity group tour the MCSC's schools. As the majority of the MCSC, the RSC also has a great deal of power choosing how to spend the commission's money. For example, earlier this year this same Peter Kelly had the commission's budget amended so that 3 animateurs de pastorale would keep their jobs - even though this meant firing other MCSC employees whose jobs parents and school staff seemed to think were more important! Furthermore, as the group in control of the MCSC, it is the RSC's respsonsibility to make rules for schools throughout the commission, on everything from installing condom machines to punishing students who don't speak French to allowing or banning the hijab or anything else for that matter!

And all of that without even mentioning the fact that the RSC is responsible for the fact that there are still religious, as opposed to linguistic, school commissions in Montreal! In other words, it is high time people spread the word and start organizing to resist and eventually get rid of these "good Christians". Not simply by organizing at the next election, but by organizing in the schools where the students - those most likely to be hurt by the RSC's toxic ideas - are forced to spend their days.

If this article has only touched upon one aspect of the far-right in Quebec this is because while we all know that there are fascist skinheads, punks and losers the mass media and other authorities consistently pretend that that is the extent of the problem. As if out of class solidarity these ostriches insist of denying that academia, the Church, the army, police and civil service are all breeding ground for this poisonous weed. If we are ever to be rid of diseases like racism, sexism and homophobia, we cannot afford to ignore the bigots in high places!

(Source: Demanarchie, V.2 #1 - Demanarchie, CP 32100, Montreal, Quebec, H2L 4Y5, Canada)

Sources :
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/44/044.html
http://www.ainfos.ca/A-Infos96/5/0113.html

Jean-Claude Dupuis*, for the past three years the leading light in the Cercle Jeune Nation, Quebec's most well-known "intellectual" fascist group. Dupuis was the editor of the Cahiers de Jeune Nation from its first issue in 1993 up until its last in 1995. [19] He has written favourably about Le Pen on several occasions, and is known to work closely with Pierre Trepannier, the University of Montreal's resident pro-fascist historian, and the clerical-fascist Ralliement Provincial des Parents de Quebec. Dupuis is also a member of the racist Centre d'information nationale Robert Rumilly [20] and has worked with this group to organize speaking engagements for Arnaud de Lassus and Michel Berger across the province. [21] Dupuis and other members of Cercle Jeune Nation have also spoken at the Society of Pius X's Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Church in Sherbrooke.

Thomas Molnar*, a university professor from Brussels. Exceptional for Catholic fascists, Molnar even collaborated with the Groupement de recherche et d'etudes sur la civilisation europeenne (GRECE) and wrote a book with the latter's founder Alain de Benoist. [23] It should be noted that most GRECists are anti-Christian, believing Jesus- worship to be too tainted with non-European influences like egalitarianism and pacifism (!) and preferring a kind of virile racist paganism. [24] Molnar is also on the editorial board of Present, [25] a French fascist newspaper. When he addressed the CEJCT in 1994 his lecture was also printed in the Cahiers de Jeune Nation.

Source :
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/44/161.html

Le bulletin compte également un vieux routier de l’extrême droite parmi ses collaborateurs. Jean-Claude Dupuis est actif dans le milieu national-catholique depuis 1992. Il a notamment été rédacteur en chef de la revue Jeune Nation au début des années ’90. Cette publication a été pendant 6 ans le fer de lance intellectuel de la « nouvelle droite » (9) au Québec. Le site web de Long Sault est hébergé sur un serveur de Montréal qui sert de repère à la Librairie Saint-Louis, dirigée par Ivan Kraljic. Spécialisée dans la vente par correspondance de livres publiés par diverses maisons d’édition catholiques intégristes d’Europe et d’Amérique, la Librairie Saint-Louis sert de relais québécois pour la pensée contre-révolutionnaire d’ici et d’ailleurs. Son adresse postale est la même que celle de la Fraternité Saint-Pie X sur la rue Dante, en plein coeur de la Petite Italie.

Source : 
Portrait de l'extrême-droite au Québec (NEFAC)
http://nefac.net/node/1258

The Cahiers de Jeune Nation, perhaps Quebec's most pretentious fascist magazine, has ceased publication after almost four years of high-brow racism and reaction. Published so irregularly that it made the far-left look well organized by comparison, CJN ranted and raved about the evils of the Revolution Tranquille, the PQ's "territorial" nationalism (as opposed to their preferred ethnic version a la Sarajevo), Marxist-Freemason conspiracies and the so-called "immigrant invasion".

From its first issue in 1992 CJN was edited by Jean-Claude Dupuis, a fanatical Catholic who thinks that Mass should still be said in Latin and that Vatican II was a Masonic plot. CJN will publish no more because Dupuis needs time off to finish his doctoral thesis under Pierre Trepannier. The latter is the University of Montreal history professor who attracted so much attention to himself and his student's political project when he published a blueprint for Quebec fascism in the CJN's very first issue.

Although CJN will exist no more, the Cercle Jeune Nation (all eight members!) which published it will hobble on, crying aghast at every sign of modern decadence and miscegenation. Presently alienated from the PQ-BQ nationalist project because it isn't racist or Catholic enough, members can be sure to continue working in esoteric religious and French Canadian traditionalist groups, eschewing grassroots struggle for the pleasure of having their heads firmly placed up their asses (which suits us fine, as we have enough politically active racist groups to deal with as it is). CJN member Gilbert Gendron will no doubt continue to publish his bulletin on Judeo-Marxist-Freemason machinations, Confidentiel, and push his latest self-published book, Feeding the Red Dragon: the case against Canada's aid to Communist Chine. For his part, Dupuis has been active in Laval University's Cercle d'Etudes des Jeunes Catholiques Traditionalistes for some time now. Other members are sure to continue popping up here and there, as they have over the past decade, their favourite haunts (as always) being the anti-abortion and anti-immigrant scenes.

This setback for the self-styled "intellectual vanguard" of the French Canadian nation follows the departure of its two founding members, Rock Toussignant and Francois Dumas, whose vision of the Cercle as a kind of far-right pre-party formation lost out to Dupuis' ideal of an intellectual project aimed at winning over the "elite".

http://www.ainfos.ca/A-Infos96/8/0389.html

MR PALLASCIO VOMITS MORE RACISM . . .

On Tuesday September 17th, Michel Pallascio re-affirmed his commitment to racism, claiming that Judeo-Christian values must remain an integral part of all publicly funded schools. Pallascio is the leader of the hardline Catholic Regroupement Scolaire Confessionel which has controlled the Montreal Catholic School Commission for almost ten years now.

In his submission on how to improve intercultural relations, Pallascio said "The Judeo-Christian tradition is not a 'particular religion' among many... it is a fundamental component of the heritage and collective identity of the welcoming culture."

According to Demanarchie's expose on the Catholic right in Quebec (Demanarchie v.2 #1-2), the RSC has links to several far-right and racist organisations. The RSC school commissioner for Duvernay region, Maurice Prevost, is a religious fanatic and treasurer of the racist Centre d'information national Robert Rumilly. Another RSC candidate in the 1994 school board elections, Pierre Messier, was a leading member of the anti- immigrant Mouvement pour une immigration restreinte et francophone. In 1988 the MCSC fired a Chilean employee because of the latter's accent. In 1989 it sent parents a questionnaire asking if they thought immigrant children should be segregated in a separate school system and in 1990 Pallascio advised the provincial government that preference should be given to immigrants with "Judeo-Christian values".

Pallascio's obsession with "Judeo-Christian" values is itself hypocritical. How many people do you know whose religion is "Judeo-Christianity"? In fact, the "Judeo-Christian tradition" in Quebec has been remarkably hostile to both Judaism and Jews. Until the late 1960s all students in this school commission were forced to suffer through Catholic indoctrination classes. This situation is behind the fact that Montreal Jews have traditionally stayed away from the Catholic School Commission, choosing instead to attend private Jewish schools or public schools in the less zealous Protestant School Board. It is no surprise that overtly anti-Semitic Catholic groups like the Cercle Jeune Nation and the Ralliement provincial des parents de Quebec are comfortable giving uncritical support to Pallascio and the RSC.

Needless to say, Pallascio's comments were condemned by groups ranging from the Association des Enseignant Haitiens du Quebec to the Canadian Jewish Congress.

-DMT

source: Montreal Gazette, September 18th, 1996

Source :
http://www.ainfos.ca/A-Infos96/8/0389.html

Les textes de Bernard Guay dans le journal fasciste "Les Cahiers de Jeune Nation"

Voici les publications signées Bernard Guay dans les Cahiers de Jeune Nation (Archives Nationales - numéros de janvier 1995, mars 1994 et septembre 1994).

Monsieur Guay parle "d'attirer les groupes armés vers le projet national" et ce militant néo-fasciste prend exemple sur l'Allemagne et le Japon pour appuyer ses théories de nationalisme ethnique.

Dans "Si vis pacem para bellum", Bernard Guay s'attaque à la notion des droits. Il considère que le droit d'exister "s'acquiert par une lutte constante pour la vie." Il y place les autochtones, allophones et anglophones comme des adversaires dont les droits sont en opposition à ceux des francophones. Ce serait donc par la loi du plus fort qu'un peuple prend le dessus sur les autres. Pour lui, "un seul peuple peut exercer une souveraineté complète sur un territoire donné." La mise en ghettos (ou réserves) et le génocide des autochtones sont ainsi justifiés

Toujours selon lui, "une indépendance acquise au prix du sang ferait craquer ces épais sédiments pacifistes qui menacent d'étouffer notre instinct de survie nationale". Il va encore plus loin en déclarant que "ce qui assure la survie d'un peuple, ce n'est pas le droit mais la force".

N'oublions pas que Monsieur Guay occupe un poste de haut-fonctionnaire, à la direction, au sein du Ministère des Affaires Municipales, Régions et Occupation du Territoire (MAMROT),  dont l'un des volets concerne la question autochtone. Il prône un nationalisme ethnique instauré par les armes et dans le sang!

Ces propos sont inadmissibles et doivent être condamnés sur-le-champ. Le gouvernement fait en ce moment même pression sur les étudiants pour qu'ils condamnent la violence dans leur camp, mais ferme les yeux sur celle beaucoup plus grande exercée par certains fonctionnaires, que ce soit des personnages tels Bernard Guay ou des "agents de la paix". Pourtant, un haut-fonctionnaire bafoue ouvertement les valeurs fondamentales de la démocratie qu'il est lui-même supposé représenter par l'exercice de ses fonctions, en faisant l'apologie de la violence en toute impunité. Bernard Guay doit être démis de ses fonctions immédiatement.

À lire aussi:
#1 - Concernant l’auteur du texte fasciste contre la grève étudiante
#2 - Sanctions contre Bernard Guay, le haut-fonctionnaire aux sympathies fascistes
#3 - Bernard Guay, un néo-fasciste actif depuis les années ’90 au sein de l’organisation « Jeune Nation »
#4 - Des excuses du journal Le Soleil

- Article rédigé par le collectif Québec Facho-Watch (www.FachoWatch.com)