Opinion: Clearly the issue for Yves-François Blanchet was never Amira Elghawaby, it was the perceived political advantage of dismissing any claim of racism by haranguing a woman of colour, who wears a hijab, no less.
After receiving an apology from Amira Elghawaby for her comments made in a 2019 newspaper column about racism in Quebec, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet declared that the apology was not enough and that the federal government’s new position of special representative on combating Islamophobia should be scrapped.
The evidence is clear that stoking Islamophobia by word and deed can have deadly results. The leader of any credible political party has an obligation to consider the consequences of their words. Blanchet’s comments came just days after the sixth anniversary of the mosque shooting in Quebec City, which took the lives of six people. His comments also follow the sickening murder of four members of a Muslim family who were run down by a truck in London, Ont., in 2021.
Blanchet’s verbal attacks on prominent Muslims are not a coincidence but a pattern of behaviour. Look no further than Bill 21, prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols such as hijabs and turbans by government employees deemed to be in positions of authority. This law is a cloud over Quebec and the country. Bill 21 is not my Canada.
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