In the environmental cause, opinions on tactics to use are divided. The majority of activists working in respect of parliamentary rules. However, they never get this great forum that Sebastien Bois obtained with the rain of small yellow paper which he launched on November 26 the National Assembly, while the Minister Normandeau reiterated its intention to proceed with the reconstruction the Gentilly-2. Mr. Wood had submitted earlier that day a petition of 2,000 signatures from citizens of the Mauricie region and around opposing the reconstruction of Gentilly-2. He was then accompanied by a dozen environmentalists and the member for Champlain, who were surprised by his gesture, as well as members of the assembly.
What explains the gesture of Mr. Woods? He reacted to the arrogance of Mrs. Normandeau in willful disregard this petition? Mr. Wood has been banned for life from the National Assembly for committing an act of peaceful civil disobedience and symbolic. How hard to reprimand an ardent democrat and what cynicism of this legitimate demand of citizens to let Quebecers decide on the fate of Gentilly-2.
Sébastien Bois was editor of a street newspaper based in Trois-Rivieres and founder of the group Citizens for Nuclear Decommissioning Mauritian (NDMC). He has a background in anthropology and, like most environmentalists, he is enamored of social justice.
Big media want information and entertainment-Sébastien Bois gave them that day. The previous Sunday, a rally was held in order and legality to the headquarters of Hydro-Quebec. This event has gone totally ignored in the mainstream media while several major players in Quebec society whose Parti Québécois, Québec solidaire, the Green Party and the unions CSN and CSQ, have joined together to demand more transparency from leaders of Hydro-Quebec and require Liberal Party, holding a public consultation on the future of energy Quebecers.
When a child disobeys, he should be reprimanded. In this sense, journalists are sometimes very bad educators. They encouraged the gesture Sébastien Bois and rewarded by giving all forums at once. He has obtained 16 Unsolicited interviews with the media the day after his stunt. The journalists rushed on it like hotcakes and wrote almost all their items at the same angle, that of the cuff.
Our democracy is sick and it's partly because the press is in disarray. Who benefits from this situation and insists on maintaining it? It is the established political party. Civil disobedience is the inevitable consequence of a repressive political system that despises democracy. Nicole Beland
, B.Sc. Geology
Longueuil, November 29, 2009
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