According to PepinDomination by the English is a synynom for defeat, humilation and self-hatredby Bernard Bérubel'Action Québec, Saturday, June 27, 1972, pp. 5
"We of French Quebec believe that it is possible, necessary and just to build a French country in North America", Mr. Marcel Pepin declared yesterday afternoon at a St. Foy hotel. "We determine," says the QFL* president, "that the domination of English is a symbol of defeat, humiliation, self-hatred; that a people who don't love their language don't love themselves; and that a people who don't love themselves cannot love others."
The union leader, joined by Louis Laberge and Yvon Charbonneau, was giving a public reading of the manifesto of the Mouvement Québec francais (MQF), a reading that took place at the same time in twenty cities across Quebec. It should be noted that the three labour congresses are members of the MQF along with the Societé nationale des Québécois (ex-SSJB), the UCC, l'Alliance des professeurs de Montréal and l'Association québécoise des professeurs de français.
To MQF members, for whom Mr. Pépin acted as spokesman in Quebec City, "honour, common sense and the principle of the freedom of peoples requires linguistic liberation." The organization went on to proclaim, "the right of the Quebec people to think, live and work in their language." Acknowledging that the Quebec people face other challenges, the MQF decided to engage in the battle to defend the language "because linguistic domination is intimately connected to other dominations and is the key to their success," according to the document. This was followed by a denunciation of political men: "(Canadian Prime Minister Pierre) Trudeau is desperately trying, through his futile continental bilingualism policy, to distract Quebec from what is necessary. (Qubec Premier Robert) Bourassa is scrambling to give himself the image of a man of francophone government; the many MNAs who were unable to hide the treachery of Bill 63."
That atack also included "all the journalists and editorialists of a certain domestic press, who faithfully repeat what they are told, and their partners in the economy, our businessmen, who propmote ideas that are in their own interests."
The manifesto followed with a message of despair:
"Quebecois, regardless of what your false masters tell you, it is not true that bilingualism is a normal situaion, as nine English provinces are there to attest;
"Quebecois, it is not true that English is the only language of technology, as thousands of engineers who speak French, German and Russsian are there to attest;
"Quebecois, you are being betrayed when the Quebec government allows immigrants, through Bill 63, to expand the size of the anglophone minority.
"Quebecois, you are being betrayed when you are not being told that the domination of English makes French the langue of unemployment, of cheap labour and collective humiliation."
The document ends with an invitation to all Quebecers, whether they be workers, retailers, farmers or industrial workers, "to immediately take the means to make Quebec French" and support Quebecers "who fight for their dignity and their liberty."
*The Quebec Labour Federation, known in French as the CSN
** Bill 63, Loi pour promouvoir la langue française au Québec (Nov 1969), required children receiving their education in English to acquire a working knowledge of French and required everything to be done so that immigrants acquired the knowledge of French upon arrival in Québec. -- The Canadian Encyclopedia
"We of French Quebec believe that it is possible, necessary and just to build a French country in North America", Mr. Marcel Pepin declared yesterday afternoon at a St. Foy hotel. "We determine," says the QFL* president, "that the domination of English is a symbol of defeat, humiliation, self-hatred; that a people who don't love their language don't love themselves; and that a people who don't love themselves cannot love others."
The union leader, joined by Louis Laberge and Yvon Charbonneau, was giving a public reading of the manifesto of the Mouvement Québec francais (MQF), a reading that took place at the same time in twenty cities across Quebec. It should be noted that the three labour congresses are members of the MQF along with the Societé nationale des Québécois (ex-SSJB), the UCC, l'Alliance des professeurs de Montréal and l'Association québécoise des professeurs de français.
To MQF members, for whom Mr. Pépin acted as spokesman in Quebec City, "honour, common sense and the principle of the freedom of peoples requires linguistic liberation." The organization went on to proclaim, "the right of the Quebec people to think, live and work in their language." Acknowledging that the Quebec people face other challenges, the MQF decided to engage in the battle to defend the language "because linguistic domination is intimately connected to other dominations and is the key to their success," according to the document. This was followed by a denunciation of political men: "(Canadian Prime Minister Pierre) Trudeau is desperately trying, through his futile continental bilingualism policy, to distract Quebec from what is necessary. (Qubec Premier Robert) Bourassa is scrambling to give himself the image of a man of francophone government; the many MNAs who were unable to hide the treachery of Bill 63."
That atack also included "all the journalists and editorialists of a certain domestic press, who faithfully repeat what they are told, and their partners in the economy, our businessmen, who propmote ideas that are in their own interests."
The manifesto followed with a message of despair:
"Quebecois, regardless of what your false masters tell you, it is not true that bilingualism is a normal situaion, as nine English provinces are there to attest;
"Quebecois, it is not true that English is the only language of technology, as thousands of engineers who speak French, German and Russsian are there to attest;
"Quebecois, you are being betrayed when the Quebec government allows immigrants, through Bill 63, to expand the size of the anglophone minority.
"Quebecois, you are being betrayed when you are not being told that the domination of English makes French the langue of unemployment, of cheap labour and collective humiliation."
The document ends with an invitation to all Quebecers, whether they be workers, retailers, farmers or industrial workers, "to immediately take the means to make Quebec French" and support Quebecers "who fight for their dignity and their liberty."
*The Quebec Labour Federation, known in French as the CSN
** Bill 63, Loi pour promouvoir la langue française au Québec (Nov 1969), required children receiving their education in English to acquire a working knowledge of French and required everything to be done so that immigrants acquired the knowledge of French upon arrival in Québec. -- The Canadian Encyclopedia