On Sunday, November 5, 2017, all Quebec Municipalities held their Municipal elections. While the turnout was low in most cases, under 40% of the voters did cast their ballots, some small towns results are quite disturbing. We will look at these results and how the Far-right and xenophobic or islamophobe organizations reacted to the results and how they managed in some local elections. But, let’s start with the 2 major races, in Montréal and Québec City.

MONTRÉAL

With a turnout of 42,5%, Valerie Plante of Project Montréal won 51,4% of the votes and was the First Woman ever elected as Mayor in the history of the City. Her social-democratic Party also won a majority of seats at the City Council. Her election was received with enthusiasm by both progressives and most community organizations in Montréal.7 of 18 Borough mayors are also women. This was a doomsday scenario for the Far-right in Montréal and Quebec as a whole.

While outgoing Mayor Coderre was seen as a « Globalist », Valerie Plante was presented as a candidate for » the White guilt and a Multiculturalist », almost as an agent of a secret plot by the Muslim Brotherhood and Georges Soros! As early as December, 12,2016, the islamophobic Poste de Veille (Watch Post) for freedom and against Sharia Law, described her in the following;

« Multiculturalism is a political religion.(…)based on the Cult of Sacred Diversity works as a mean to control the acts and minds of the majority. White guilt is a political tool to control the minds and social behaviour of the majority of European old-stock. (…) Will she impose to employees of European descent special re-education programs to reinforce the self-esteem of alleged victims of past discrimination, in order to expiate their racist past?(…) they want to impose a series of mechanisms to control civil society and crackdown on any forms of dissent of members of the majority «

While the FQS( Federation of Old stock Quebeckers) presented the choice between Coderre and Valerie Plante as a choice » between cholera and the plague », they supported independent candidates, but mostly Gilbert Thibodeau for the election. Most of the Far-right and islamophobes groups also supported Thibodeau. La Meute ( the Wolfpack) showed their choice this way, in a posting on May,3rd,2017;( This one of La Meute is the one which his a private corporation and also a non-profit organization, now we also have another one…)

« medias have pushed Coderre and Plante, two sold to Islam. There is an alternative, Gilbert Thibodeau.(…)Quoting Thibodeau » I pledge that Montreal will never become a Sanctuary City while Coderre and Plante are advocating it. (…)As for the refugee claimants, we will impose extreme vetting and then we may receive them. As for the illegals, without papers, the one that enter illegally at the border, we shall transfer them to the Immigration and Customs officials to deport them or see if they can be assimilate as potential citizens »

Thibodeau received the endorsement of the MRQ (Movement for a Republic of Quebec), from the Justiciers du Peuple (People’s Vigilantes) and even the La Meute (Wolfpack) web propagandist, Stu Pitt, who wants to become the Alex Jones of Quebec’s and also other organizations. André Pitre aka Stu Pitt put a show online featuring Thibodeau who was closer to their Identity movement. Despite all these efforts, Thibodeau finished 5th, with 0,35% of the popular vote, two place behind a candidate that had called off his candidacy!

As for the notorious Hallak from the Canadian Coalition of Concerned Citizens (CCCC), he endorsed an independant restaurant owner, Bernard Gurberg, who managed to finish fourth with 0,45% of votes. His candidacy was also endorsed by the satirical TV program, Infoman, our french version of This Hour has 22 minutes types of show. We have way to know if these candidates knew of the real nature of these supporters and we believe they were duped by these organizations in order to get air time on TV and the web. However, some postings by Mr.Thibodeau seems to show a very friendly attitude towards Marine LePen of the Front National, inviting her for a chat at his house, anytime,as pointed out in those postings;

Now, they found a new job for Thibodeau- house cleaner;

Following the election, Stu Pitt made a call to his followers, to move, as quickly as possible,out of Montréal. He is calling his own « remigration » program. The Far-right, Voix du Peuple Québécois ( Quebec’s Peoples Voice) published a made-up picture of what will become of Montreal under Valerie Plante on their Facebook page on November 6, 2017;

This election is not only a defeat for them, but their worst nightmare has only begun! The only downside is that only 6% of the City Councillors elected are members of visible minorities while visible minorities represent about 30% of the population. As pointed out by the CBC, 4 of them are visible minorities and one is of Mi’kmaq origin, and they all are members of the Team Denis Coderre. (CBC News,November 8, 2017).

QUÉBEC CITY

Nothing much to report on. While La Meute (the Wolfpack- the same as both private company and non-profit organization) endorsed the candidacy of Jean-François Gosselin for Mayor. The turnout was at 51% and Gosselin received 27,6% of the popular vote, way behind elected-Mayor Régis Labeaume with his 55,27% of the popular vote. The team of Mayor Labeaume won almost all seats at City Council, while the Quebec -21 team of Gosselin elected 2 City Councillors in the Beauport area of the City. We are not even sure that Mr.Gosselin was aware that La Meute (Wolfpack) had endorsed him and that he actually wished for such endorsement. In fact, we are sure that he did not even knew about it, like most people living in Québec City.

La Meute (Wolfpack) was a non-event in that election as well.