Tuesday, February 23, 2010

More About Candidate for New President of Rights and Democracy


Mr. Gerard Latulippe ran in Charlesbourg-Jacques-Cartier as candidate for the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance in the 2000 Election but he was not elected.

According to Joe Friesen and Campbell Clark: "Mr. Latulippe declared his support for Quebec sovereignty in the 1990s, several years after he was forced to resign from Liberal premier Robert Bourassa's cabinet over conflict-of-interest allegations."

According to Paul Wells: "In 1994 Latulippe was delegate-general for Quebec to Brussels when the Parti Quebecois was elected under Jacques Parizeau. Parizeau and his minister of international relations, Bernard Landry, couldn't bear the thought that Quebec's vast network of foreign bureaux be staffed by people who actually liked Canada. So they checked. And anyone who, having been asked, didn't swear their loyalty to the notion of a sovereign Quebec, was fired. That's how Gilles Houde lost his nice foreign post, and Reed Scowen. But Gerard Latulippe had no problem! He gave more than the client demanded,” Le Devoir reported at the time, noting in a Brussels press conference at Bernie Landry's side that he had secretly been a supporter of sovereignty for two years before anyone thought to ask."
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/22/rights-and-democracy-loyalty-and-competence/#


According to Graeme Hamilton: "In 2007, when Quebec was in the throes of debate over the reasonable accommodation of religious minorities, Mr. Latulippe submitted a 37-page brief to a provincial government commission studying the issue. Mr. Latulippe warned that Quebec's open immigration practices were leading to the creation of Muslim ghettoes in Montreal, which could easily become breeding grounds for terrorism."Some ethnic groups insist on living according to their own life codes, which run counter to our values and sometimes even our fundamental rights," he wrote. The smooth functioning of Quebec society, he said, is harmed by "the increasingly large geographical concentration [in Montreal] of immigration from Muslim countries." Among the solutions he proposed were a requirement that immigrants settle outside Montreal and a pre-immigration test to verify that a potential immigrant's values conform with those of Quebec society. He also said such religious symbols as the Muslim headscarf and the Sikh kirpan should be confined to the "private sphere." On the other hand, Catholic symbols such as the crucifix in the provincial legislature reflected Quebec's "national identity" and should be preserved, he said."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2599979#ixzz0gMJjQaeY 


According to Juliet O'Neill: Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon is expected to decide early next week whether to take the advice of the three opposition party leaders and withdraw his proposed appointment of Gerard Latulippe as president of the troubled Rights and Democracy agency.
 http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2620317#ixzz0gkIzAIOj 


According to Agnes Gruda: "Mais d'autres voix appuient la candidature de Gérard Latulippe, évoquant sa compétence et son expérience internationale."
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/201003/01/01-4256242-gerard-latulippe-un-homme-et-ses-zigzags.php

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