{"id":7990,"date":"2020-11-30T17:46:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T21:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2020-11-30T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:17:28","slug":"bravo-to-mr-legault-for-being-one-of-our-rare-politicians-to-defend-freedom-of-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/11\/30\/bravo-to-mr-legault-for-being-one-of-our-rare-politicians-to-defend-freedom-of-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravo to Mr. Legault for being one of our rare politicians to defend freedom of expression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How sad and ironic that, in our collective insane times, contemporary radical activists are behaving like the authoritarian Catholic church in Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s history (before its\u201csilent revolution\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2020\/11\/29\/francois-legault-partiellement-censure-par-lassociation-des-libraires<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is refreshing to read Mr. Legault’s words on his FB page (shown below). Here is a quick translation for you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We will be frank with each other: The decision of the Association of Qu\u00e9bec Booksellers to withdraw my reading suggestions did not make any common sense. One cannot accept that a handful of radical activists trample our freedom of expression to defend their dictates. It is going way too far. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am reassured to see that the Association finally backed down.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was of course angry\nwhen I heard the news yesterday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I was also sad. I am\na big lover of reading. I take great pleasure in reading every evening before\nsleeping. And I make it a point to share my passion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beauty of books is\nthat there is room for all voices. Reading transports us to points of view that\nare sometimes far from our own, but which always enrich us. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we must not miss the\ntarget either.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have to denounce censorship.\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One must never let our\nguard down on our freedom of expression.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, we should not penalize\nour independent booksellers who have nothing to do with this story. It is hard\nenough for them these days. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I will repeat the same\nrequest that I made to you in the video for booksellers: Go buy a Qu\u00e9bec book\nduring the holiday season. We must encourage our authors. This is the best\nresponse we can offer to those who want to silence them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your prime minister.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

End of Mr. Legault\u2019s quote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind you, Bambi was already planning to purchase Dr. Mathieu Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9\u2019s most recent book (the target of this absurd censorship). She just did not have the time to do it yet. Well, this will be her Christmas gift to herself ?:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/dusoleil.leslibraires.ca\/livres\/l-empire-du-politiquement-correct-mathieu-bock-cote-9782204116367.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How sad and ironic that, in our collective insane times, contemporary radical activists are behaving like the authoritarian Catholic church in Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s history (before its\u201csilent revolution\u201d): https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2020\/11\/29\/francois-legault-partiellement-censure-par-lassociation-des-libraires It is refreshing to read Mr. Legault’s words […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8000,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions\/8000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}