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Tuesday, 6 October 2020
U.S. conspiracy theories and far-right movement have merged with
anti-mask sentiment in Quebec: journalist

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André Arthur
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier
In office
2006–2011
Preceded by    Guy Côté
Succeeded by    Élaine Michaud
Personal details
Born    December 21, 1943 (age 76)
Quebec City, Quebec
Political party    Independent
Spouse(s)    divorced
Residence    Quebec City, Quebec
Profession    Journalist, radio host

André Arthur (born December 21, 1943) is a Canadian radio host and politician. He was the independent Member of Parliament for the riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier from 2006 to 2011. He is known for his outspoken style and anti-statist right-of-center politics in a province known for mainly supporting left-of-center policies, but has nonetheless earned widespread popularity, earning the nickname le Roi Arthur ("King Arthur").

Arthur consistently voted to support the government on confidence matters. As a result, the Conservative Party decided not to run a candidate against him in the 2008 and 2011 federal elections. This decision proved to be decisive in his 2008 re-election; Arthur retained the seat with only 33.5% of the vote, against 32% for Richard Coté of the Bloc Québécois.

In 2011, Globe and Mail noted in an interview that aired on CHOI-FM in Quebec City on Aug. 23, 2007, shortly after a Tory cabinet shuffle, tdirected some of his well-known on-air venom toward Stephen Harper's new team. He called Peter MacKay, dismissing him as "a loser" and "a ridiculous character". Stated that Jim Prentice was "not a bad" minister who spent all his time solving problems for the Prime Minister and Bev Oda "lamentable - unable to find her behind with her two hands". However, Quebec MP Maxime Bernier, defended his party choice not stating to field a candidate during the 2011 election by stating "Absolutely not. He is an independent and he has his freedom of speech," and "Who doesn't make mistakes in life?"[ Arthur was defeated in 2011 by the New Democratic Party candidate, Élaine Michaud.
 

Too Too Funny EH? 

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U.S. conspiracy theories and far-right movement have merged with anti-mask sentiment in Quebec: journalist

CBC reporter Jonathan Montpetit has been tracking far-right activity in Quebec for years

CBC Radio· Posted: Oct 02, 2020 7:17 PM ET

A man takes part in an anti-mask rally in Montreal on Sept. 30, 2020. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)

Anti-mask sentiment in Quebec is being fuelled by the province's far-right movement and unfounded conspiracy theories originating in the U.S., says CBC Montreal journalist Jonathan Montpetit.

Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise across much of Canada, and Quebec has been hit hardest with upwards of 800 to 900 daily new cases this week. But the province is also home to one of the loudest and most visible opposition groups to COVID-19 restrictions.

Last month, thousands of people gathered in the streets of downtown Montreal for a march against the government's mandatory mask policy. Amidst the crowds, some waved American flags, carried Trump election campaign signs and donned QAnon symbols. 

Speakers at the rally accused the government and media of fear mongering and exaggerating the threat of the pandemic.

Montpetit, who's been tracking far-right activity in Quebec for years, spoke with Day 6 host Brent Bambury about the implications of this growing movement on the public health situation in the province.

Here is part of their conversation.

QAnon is a conspiracy theory based on the idea that Donald Trump is fighting a group of American liberals running a child trafficking ring. How does something like that get translated into Quebec?

I think the easiest way to answer that is to focus on the most prominent conspiracy theorist in the province, a guy by the name of Alexis Cossette-Trudel.

He, for the past two or three years or so, has been operating under a YouTube channel by the name of Radio-Québec and has built a fairly sizable following by effectively translating both the conspiracy theory into the French language, but also kind of making the conspiracy relevant, so to speak, to Quebec and other Francophone listeners in the world by using Canadian and Quebecois reference. 

He will kind of tweak the QAnon conspiracy to have references to Justin Trudeau, to François Legault and the public health director here [Horacio Arruda]. So that, I think, is how a conspiracy theory that is essentially about American politics has been able to gain a foothold here in Quebec.

He's quite an interesting figure. What do you think his aims are here, Jonathan? What kind of a constituency is he trying to build?

This is somebody who began his political involvement quite young. He was the head of the Parti Québécois' youth wing [and] about five years ago, he gets involved in far-right groups in Quebec and advocates themes familiar to people who follow the far-right in Quebec — anti-immigration, a lot of Islamophobic discourse — and then he begins to pick up the QAnon pro-Donald Trump mantra. 

Now, he sees Donald Trump as waging a war against globalization. I think there is part of his discourse that is aimed at nationalist resurgence, which we've seen in Quebec over the last several years, and he's kind of pitching QAnon in a way to try to appeal to people who feel the relevance of the Quebec state is being submerged by forces of globalization.

Alexis Cossette-Trudel is one leader who else is involved, Jonathan?

You also have, interestingly, a lot of evangelical groups. I was speaking to a Concordia, professor, who's an expert in this, who pointed out that most evangelical groups in Quebec are following the public health guidelines, but there are a not-insignificant number of them who are influenced by evangelical pastors in the U.S. who are pro-Trump and have been very vocal in their opposition to public health measures in the U.S., and their arguments are being picked up in Quebec.

They're very prominent in these anti-mask demonstrations and they have their own channels and media network that they're using to produce very polished videos with other leaders of the movement. 

I think that's a very interesting development because Quebec politics tend to be so secular and, certainly, the evangelical Christian groups are not something that we've seen often in the public sphere in Quebec and so I think it's interesting to see them use this movement to move into the limelight.

The march began outside Quebec Premier François Legault’s office near the McGill University campus, and wound through the streets. 1:00

The last time I spoke to you, we were talking about radio-poubelles, which [are] the far-right shock talk radio stations in and around Quebec City. At the time, they were stoking xenophobia. How are they involved in the anti-mask issue?

To the regimen, they've added anti-mask sentiment. They've had Alexis Cosette-Trudel on the very popular lunch hour show hosted by a guy named Jeff Fillion, who welcomed him, called him a "star" and said he admired his work as it was very detailed and very well-researched — that's a quote. 

So the radio station has given a platform to conspiracy theorists, but it's also used this populist libertarian rhetoric to kind of generate more skepticism about the public health measures in general. Not always drawing on conspiracy theories, but using the language of, "This is a tyrannical move by the government, this is a step towards dictatorship."

What's interesting is that it's become such an issue for the Quebec government that they recorded an ad specifically for Radio X listeners, encouraging them, "Don't get your news online. Don't get your news from conspiracy theorists. Go to trusted sources," and Radio X refused to air the ad.

Did the government push back in anyway? 

The mayor of Quebec City, Régis Labeaume, who has been vocal in the past in his criticism of radio poubelle, announced the other day that he was going to pull all of Quebec City's ads from the radio station. A series of other prominent advertisers also started pulling their advertising from the radio station. 

The radio station kind of pushed back saying, "Freedom of expression. We're renegades. We have the right to question and criticize the governments."

But I think what it really demonstrates is the extent to which public officials are concerned that the kind of rhetoric the kind of voices that are being heard on Radio X are becoming a public health problem.

 

Some demonstrators carried signs and wore t-shirts and hats denouncing government fear campaigns or suggesting that the lethality of COVID-19 has been overstated. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)

Quebec brought in new penalties this week to discourage anti-maskers…. Will they deter people, or are they going to give more life to the movement?

Quebec is in a situation right now where cases are going up, and the reason why cases are going up is that there seems to be a minority of people who aren't following the public health guidelines very carefully. That means, though, that the majority has to pay the price. 

So I think if anti-mask activists make very public displays of their defiance of the rules, there's going to be public pressure for the government to crack down because I think the perception is that they're kind of contributing to the worsening public health situation.

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