1er mai

I remember the first time I killed a deer. I don’t know why, but before we started skinning or anything, I walked up to that deer and I put my hand on it. I could feel that the deer was still warm. In that moment I knew that he was the same as me. As I had taken his life, now I owed him mine.

Ce texte est originellement paru en anglais; la version française suit ci-dessous.

Je me souviens de la première fois où j’ai tué un cerf. Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais avant qu’on commence à retirer sa peau ou quoi que ce soit, j’ai marché jusqu’au cerf et j’ai posé ma main sur son corps. J’ai senti qu’il était encore chaud. À ce moment, j’ai su qu’il était comme moi. Ayant pris sa vie, je lui devais maintenant la mienne.

This text was originally written in French

During the 2019 federal election campaign we learned, with some surprise, that it was the Bloc Québécois who was responsible for the shutting down of the Energy East project. It was not the hundreds of petitions, protests, blockades and sabotages that led to the withdrawal of the project, no! It was the Bloc Québécois [1], the same Bloc who is currently trying to sell us another pipeline. A gas pipeline this time : The Énergie Saguenay of GNL Quebec [2].

What the Bloc did was nothing new. It is a form of “greenwashing”, presently popular among our elected officials. This particular form of greenwashing steals the work done in local struggles in order to gain a few votes. And our elected stooges do it because it works!