{"id":12275,"date":"2021-08-18T23:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=12275"},"modified":"2021-08-19T00:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T03:11:49","slug":"bambi-stands-with-ms-pascale-nadeau-and-thanks-her-for-her-38-year-long-career-in-broadcast-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/08\/18\/bambi-stands-with-ms-pascale-nadeau-and-thanks-her-for-her-38-year-long-career-in-broadcast-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bambi stands with Ms. Pascale Nadeau and thanks her for her 38-year-long career in broadcast journalism!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bambi is speechless. The only word that comes to her mind is “shame”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, shame on the French CBC<\/em> (or Radio-Canada<\/em>) for mistreating Ms. Nadeau. You will understand why Bambi is saying so after reading this journalist’s straightforward, dignified, and moving letter published this evening in the Soleil :<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.lesoleil.com\/opinions\/point-de-vue\/pourquoi-je-quitte-radio-canada-199aa8dd0fa6024febaebed18d57aab5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No to censorship. No to this cancel craziness of our collectively insane times. Enough! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one deserves such absurd treatment, especially not Ms. Pascale Nadeau. She is a TV monument. She is professional. She is principled. She is talented yet humble. She is rigorous yet compassionate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post will begin by a quick translation of her open letter that she wrote in French (shown below following the English version). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi will allow herself to add a couple of brief comments (she can’t help it!) within the English translated text. However, before doing so, Bambi would like to thank Ms. Nadeau’s union, Mr. Marc-Andr\u00e9 Lemieux from the Journal de Montreal<\/em> as well as Mr. Richard Martinau and Benoit Dutrizac from QUB Radio<\/em> for supporting their colleague. It is also moving to see the outpouring support of the public and to read Ms. Nadeau’s tweet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2021\/08\/18\/depart-de-radio-canada–pascale-nadeau-donne-sa-version-des-faits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ms. Pascale Nadeau is telling her followers that she reads each message. Yes, she reads their messages one by one. For the first time of her life, she is speechless. All this affection, all this esteem of her work, of her journey… It is very, very emotional! Thank you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pascale Nadeau<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former new anchor person at Radio-Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Why I leave Radio-Canada [French CBC]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

POINT OF VIEW \/<\/strong> I’ve been working in television in Qu\u00e9bec for 38 years. I have had the good fortune to work in almost all of the major networks. But it was at Radio-Canada that I chose to build my career. I entered it 33 years ago and against all odds, I have always been faithful to the institution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 38 years, I have been practising my profession with passion, rigour and pride. At the time, I managed to make my way through a man’s world. I had to fight so often! And I still do.<\/em> Failing to gain recognition from my leadership, I humbly believe I can say that I have earned yours and your affection on top of that, which is an invaluable gift.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I could decide to shut up and ride the wave of love that has swept over me since Radio-Canada [French CBC] announced my departure and thus avoid a certainly scathing response from the CBC. But it’s in my nature to tell the truth. So here it is.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t think I would end my career so quickly, I still had many good years to offer and I certainly didn’t believe I would end it this way, through the back door.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year ago, my employer, without any warning [classical in censorship sagas, it seems\u2026] and without even asking to speak to me, allowed an anonymous tip-off against me. An anonymous denunciation made on behalf of a third person and which turned out to be a collection of false allegations or cited completely out of context.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are not talking about harassment or denigration here, far from it! But from remarks made in the course of my work and my duties.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bowed – what else could I do? – to this investigation. This was not the first time the firm hired for Radio-Canada was investigating and was responding directly to Human Resources.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, I cannot tell you here, in detail, how humiliating, and painful the process was for me, because, supported by my union in a strong grievance, everything will soon be brought to arbitration and will then become public. Until then, we are all bound by confidentiality.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I can tell you, on the other hand, is that the outcome of this long investigation in which I was not allowed to read its full report (just two small extracts of it) concluded to nothing but unsubstantiated or “partially founded” allegations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which ones? I still do not know.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter. With a hand-signed letter, a harsh and hurtful letter, the director of information Luce Julien suspended me for a month, without pay <\/em>[Bambi is shocked to know that your former boss deprived millions of Canadians from watching you provide them with the news for a whole month!], repeating several times “not to have a choice”. Why?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future will tell.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not perfect. I have character and it can happen that I have moments of impatience. I am a whole, frank, passionate, sincere and honest person. With me, we always have the right time. And then, I hate injustice and lies. Now, this is precisely what I was faced with.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having the privilege of being an anchor person requires a lot of rigour. I am therefore very demanding of myself, and I certainly also demand it from the people on my team. They know it and know me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who come in replacement maybe less. But I am not a case in point. I do not know of a news anchor person who acts otherwise in managing a team. In this business, there is no room for error, you have to be vigilant. And especially on weekends, with less experienced resources. Working with the next generation is stimulating but it also has its challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A newsroom is like a volcano. There are quiet times and times that are more stressful and intense. It’s part of the job. This is what makes it so exciting. But the important thing is that, no matter what day, difficult or not, I have always made a point of thanking my work team.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A newsroom is also a microcosm of our society, a crowded place. How could I exercise my 38-year career in so many newsrooms, without any blemish on my record, without any warning from my bosses and come to this humiliating and unfair sanction?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, management is hiding behind its obligation to act according to the labour law.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s easy … After 33 years, most of which has been being one of the important faces of the news at Radio-Canada <\/em>[Again, French CBC], I haven’t had any phone calls from my management to wonder if there was any substance to the truth in these false allegations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some time now, Radio-Canada has embarked on a total “disciplinary drift”. It’s not me saying it, but my union, in its July 2 newsletter. There are many cases of employees who, like me, “have a long and impeccable track record, people who are highly appreciated internally and who find themselves sanctioned, or even fired, in cases where the alleged facts do not deserve. not at all that sledgehammer between the two eyes. Cases often associated with ageism \u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strangely, the union also notes that the bosses, accused of harassment by employees, do miraculously well when faced with these same investigations. “Mock investigations”, writes the union<\/em> [it is called double standards].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s what made me sick.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not the death of my parents, behind which the CBC hid to explain my absence<\/em> [her parents are the late\/great Ms. France Nadeau and Mr. Pierre Nadeau!]. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This explanation made me deeply uncomfortable and I would like to apologize on their behalf. Yes, I lost my parents, one after another, after taking care of them as the sole caregiver for several years. It was difficult. But how many thousands of families have lost a loved one in the past year and a half, in conditions so much harsher and more heartbreaking than mine? I had the chance, me, to accompany them until the end.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this investigation, Radio-Canada attacked my integrity. By sanctioning me in this way, on the basis of an anonymous denunciation made on behalf of a third person and on the basis of an investigation which did not reach any frank conclusion, it trampled on its own principles of ethics and journalistic rigour that it continues to proudly wave as a standard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To return to work, I only asked for a simple excuse and the removal of this stain from my file. Nothing more. But Radio-Canada does not apologize.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a woman of principle, proud and honest<\/em> [this is why you win awards and everyone loves you!]. We tackled that and at the same time, we soiled my name, which I proudly wear, and that of my parents, who helped, among other things, to give Radio-Canada its reputation<\/em> [Indeed, shame on the CBC<\/em>!]\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00abPourquoi je quitte Radio-Canada<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pascale Nadeau<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ex cheffe d’antenne \u00e0 Radio-Canada<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

POINT DE VUE \/<\/strong> Cela fait 38 ans que je fais de la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision au Qu\u00e9bec. J’ai eu la chance de travailler dans presque tous les grands r\u00e9seaux. Mais c’est \u00e0 Radio-Canada que j’ai choisi de faire ma carri\u00e8re. J’y suis entr\u00e9e il y a 33 ans et contre vents et mar\u00e9es, j’ai toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 fid\u00e8le \u00e0 l’institution. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 38 ans, j’exerce mon m\u00e9tier avec\npassion, rigueur et fiert\u00e9. \u00c0 l’\u00e9poque, j’ai r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 me frayer un chemin dans\nun monde d’hommes. J’ai eu \u00e0 me battre si souvent! Et je le fais encore.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 d\u00e9faut d’obtenir la reconnaissance de ma\ndirection, je crois humblement pouvoir dire que j’ai gagn\u00e9 la v\u00f4tre et votre\naffection de surcro\u00eet, ce qui est un cadeau inestimable.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je pourrais aujourd’hui d\u00e9cider de me taire\net surfer sur cette vague d’amour qui d\u00e9ferle sur moi depuis l’annonce faite\npar Radio-Canada de mon d\u00e9part et m’\u00e9viter ainsi une r\u00e9plique certainement\ncinglante de la SRC. Mais il est dans ma nature de dire la v\u00e9rit\u00e9. Alors la\nvoici.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je ne pensais pas mettre fin \u00e0 ma carri\u00e8re\nsi vite, j’avais encore de belles ann\u00e9es \u00e0 offrir et je ne croyais surtout pas\nla terminer de cette fa\u00e7on, par la porte d’en arri\u00e8re.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il y a un an, mon employeur, sans aucun avertissement\net sans m\u00eame demander \u00e0 me parler, a accueilli une d\u00e9nonciation anonyme \u00e0 mon\nendroit. Une d\u00e9nonciation anonyme faite au nom d’une tierce personne et qui\ns’est av\u00e9r\u00e9e \u00eatre un ramassis d’all\u00e9gations mensong\u00e8res ou cit\u00e9es totalement\nhors contexte.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nous ne parlons pas ici de harc\u00e8lement ou de\nd\u00e9nigrement, loin de l\u00e0! Mais de remarques faites dans le cadre de mon travail\net de mes fonctions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je me suis pli\u00e9e \u2013 que pouvais-je faire\nd’autre? \u2013 \u00e0 cette investigation. La firme engag\u00e9e n’en \u00e9tait pas \u00e0 sa premi\u00e8re\nenqu\u00eate pour Radio-Canada et elle r\u00e9pondait directement aux Ressources\nhumaines.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je ne peux malheureusement pas vous dire ici,\ndans le d\u00e9tail, \u00e0 quel point la d\u00e9marche me fut humiliante, douloureuse et\np\u00e9nible, car, appuy\u00e9e de mon syndicat dans un grief costaud, le tout sera\nbient\u00f4t port\u00e9 en arbitrage et deviendra alors public. D’ici l\u00e0, nous sommes\ntous tenus \u00e0 la confidentialit\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce que je peux vous dire, par contre, est que\nle r\u00e9sultat de cette longue enqu\u00eate, dont on ne m’a jamais laiss\u00e9 lire le\nrapport, si ce n’est que deux petits extraits, n’a conclu \u00e0 rien si ce n’est\nqu’\u00e0 des all\u00e9gations non fond\u00e9es ou \u00ab partiellement fond\u00e9es \u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesquelles? Je ne sais toujours pas.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peu importe. Forte d’une lettre sign\u00e9e de sa\nmain, une lettre dure et blessante, la directrice de l’information Luce Julien\nm’a suspendue un mois, sans salaire, r\u00e9p\u00e9tant \u00e0 plusieurs reprises \u00ab ne pas\navoir le choix \u00bb. Pourquoi?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L’avenir le dira.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je ne suis pas parfaite. J’ai du caract\u00e8re\net il peut m’arriver d’avoir des moments d’impatience. Je suis une personne\nenti\u00e8re, franche, passionn\u00e9e, sinc\u00e8re et int\u00e8gre. Avec moi, on a toujours\nl’heure juste. Et puis, j’ai horreur de l’injustice et du mensonge. Or, voil\u00e0\njustement \u00e0 quoi j’\u00e9tais confront\u00e9e.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avoir le privil\u00e8ge d’\u00eatre chef d’antenne\ndemande beaucoup de rigueur. Je suis donc tr\u00e8s exigeante envers moi, je le suis\naussi certainement envers les gens de mon \u00e9quipe. Ils le savent et me\nconnaissent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceux qui viennent en remplacement peut-\u00eatre\nmoins. Mais je ne suis pas un cas d’esp\u00e8ce. Je ne connais pas un ou une cheffe\nd’antenne qui agisse autrement. Dans ce m\u00e9tier, il n’y a pas de place \u00e0\nl’erreur, il faut \u00eatre vigilant. Et particuli\u00e8rement le week-end, avec des\nressources moins exp\u00e9riment\u00e9es. Travailler avec la rel\u00e8ve est stimulant mais\nelle comporte aussi ses d\u00e9fis.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une salle des nouvelles, c’est comme un\nvolcan. Il y a des p\u00e9riodes calmes et des p\u00e9riodes plus stressantes et\nintenses. Cela fait partie du m\u00e9tier. C’est ce qui le rend si passionnant. Mais\nl’important est que, peu importe la journ\u00e9e, difficile ou pas, je me suis\ntoujours fait un devoir de remercier mon \u00e9quipe de travail.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une salle de nouvelles, c’est aussi un\nmicrocosme de notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9, un endroit de haute promiscuit\u00e9. Comment ai-je pu\nexercer mes 38 ans de carri\u00e8re dans autant de salles de nouvelles, sans aucune\ntache \u00e0 mon dossier, sans aucun avertissement de mes patrons et en arriver \u00e0\ncette sanction humiliante et injuste?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour l’instant, la direction se cache\nderri\u00e8re son obligation d’agir en fonction de la loi du travail.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

C’est facile… Apr\u00e8s 33 ans, dont la\nmajeure partie aura \u00e9t\u00e9 d’\u00eatre l’un des visages importants de l’information \u00e0\nRadio-Canada, je n’ai eu droit \u00e0 aucun coup de t\u00e9l\u00e9phone de ma direction pour\nme demander s’il y avait un fond de v\u00e9rit\u00e9 dans ces all\u00e9gations mensong\u00e8res.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis un certain temps, Radio-Canada s’est\nlanc\u00e9e dans une totale “d\u00e9rive disciplinaire”. Ce n’est pas moi qui\nle dis mais mon syndicat, dans son infolettre du 2 juillet dernier. Il d\u00e9nombre\nde nombreux cas d’employ\u00e9s qui, comme moi, \u00ab ont une longue et impeccable\nfeuille de route, des gens tr\u00e8s appr\u00e9ci\u00e9s \u00e0 l’interne et qui se retrouvent\nsanctionn\u00e9s, voire m\u00eame cong\u00e9di\u00e9s, dans des cas o\u00f9 les faits reproch\u00e9s ne\nm\u00e9ritent pas du tout ce coup de massue entre les deux yeux. Des cas souvent\nassoci\u00e9s \u00e0 de l’\u00e2gisme \u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c9trangement, le syndicat remarque aussi que\nles patrons, accus\u00e9s de harc\u00e8lement par les employ\u00e9s, s’en tirent\nmiraculeusement bien lorsque confront\u00e9s \u00e0 ces m\u00eames enqu\u00eates. Des \u00ab simulacres\nd’enqu\u00eates \u00bb, \u00e9crit le syndicat.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Et c’est ce qui m’a rendue malade.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pas le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de mes parents, derri\u00e8re\nlaquelle la SRC s’est cach\u00e9e pour expliquer mon absence. Cette explication m’a\nd’ailleurs mise profond\u00e9ment mal \u00e0 l’aise et je tiens \u00e0 m’excuser en leur nom.\nOui, j’ai perdu mes parents, l’un apr\u00e8s l’autre, apr\u00e8s avoir pris soin d’eux\ncomme seule aidante naturelle pendant plusieurs ann\u00e9es. Cela fut difficile.\nMais combien de milliers de familles ont perdu un \u00eatre cher dans la derni\u00e8re\nann\u00e9e et demie, dans des conditions tellement plus dures et d\u00e9chirantes que la\nmienne? J’ai eu la chance, moi, de les accompagner jusqu’\u00e0 la fin.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avec cette enqu\u00eate, Radio-Canada s’est\nattaqu\u00e9e \u00e0 mon int\u00e9grit\u00e9. En me sanctionnant de la sorte, sur la base d’une\nd\u00e9nonciation anonyme faite au nom d’une tierce personne et sur la base d’une\nenqu\u00eate qui ne parvenait \u00e0 aucune conclusion franche, elle a pi\u00e9tin\u00e9 ses\npropres principes d’\u00e9thique et de rigueur journalistique qu’elle continue de\nbrandir fi\u00e8rement comme \u00e9tendard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je ne demandais pour revenir au travail\nqu’une simple excuse et le retrait de cette tache \u00e0 mon dossier. Rien de plus.\nMais Radio-Canada ne s’excuse pas.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je suis une femme de principe, fi\u00e8re et int\u00e8gre. On s’est attaqu\u00e9 \u00e0 cela et du m\u00eame coup, on a sali mon nom, que je porte fi\u00e8rement, et celui de mes parents, qui ont contribu\u00e9, entre autres, \u00e0 donner \u00e0 Radio-Canada ses lettres de noblesse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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