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| Martine Ouellet during her conference at Salle Jean-Paul-Tardif Credit: Étienne-A. Beauregard |
On Wednesday April 11th, Bloc Québécois leader Martine Ouellet came to Saint-Charles-Garnier for a conference with students of secondary 4 and 5. Through her path in life and and her answers to the students’ questions, she showed she was involved in politics for the right reasons, being conviction as well as the desire to change Québec for the better.
Martine Ouellet has strong convictions, namely environmental and for Québec independance. For thirty years, she advocated in different groups and parties for those goals with tremendous success, for example by writing Québec’s national water policy at the beginning of the 2000’s. When she told the students about it, it was crystal clear that she was very proud of what she did to make society better and wanted the people in the room to do the same. Indeed, the Bloc Québécois’ leader is a shinig example of an involved citizen who started at the bottom and got to the very top, becoming a minister in Pauline Marois’ short lived governement in 2012.
As a woman and a politician’s, Ouellet’s also has it very tough, Indeed, nothing was given to her and she’s always been seen as a disturbance by those who despise structural change in methods as well as determination to achieve political goals. As an example, she mentioned the time mining companies offered to pay one million dollars for her not to be named Minister of Natural Resources of Québec in 2012. The recent crisis within the Bloc Québécois, during which the media severely critiqued her and portrayed her as a madwoman hell bent on not listening to other is another situation in which she had to go throught hard times. Yet, she chose to hold on and continue the fight, which is incredibly commendable.
No matter what some might think about her, it’s absolutely undeniable that Martine Ouellet ahows tremendous determination and passion in her everyday life as a politician and party leader. Let’s hope that more activists choose to follow their dreams in the way she did and become driving forces of our society. We need people like the Bloc’s leader to bring us further as a nation and upset those who want our political scene to be static ans passionless.
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