Meow everyone.
As you all know by now, i have been covering the student strike actions taking place in Montreal since they first started, and very un-apologetically, make my position clear that this was not only stupid for a great variety of reasons, but it also was illegal . these strikes disrupted honest hard working students who are in university to get an education, yet, they were literally kidnapped and taken hostage by a bunch of self serving anarchists, some dressed in suits for the sake of appearance. It was not uncommon for some students to be dragged out of classrooms by BULLIES (remember, i am also working on a series of stories about bullying ) .
Yesterday, i learned that the organizer of CLASSE , the guy who lead these student protests was found guilty of contempt of court for his actions. Here is the link to the story :
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Ex-student spokesperson Nadeau-Dubois found guilty of contempt
Judge finds he illegally encouraged students to ignore injunction against picket lines
by Tim McSorley
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, ex-spokesperson for the CLASSE, faces up to a year in court and $50,000 in fines. PHOTO: Madoc facebook.com/madocstudio.com
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the ex-student spokesperson who for many became the face of the Quebec student movement this past spring, was found guilty of contempt of court today.
During the strike, Nadeau-Dubois was accused of contempt for allegedly encouraging students to disobey an injunction banning picket lines at the Université de Laval in Quebec City. The student who filed the injunction, Jean-François Morasse, said that Nadeau-Dubois’ statement during an interview on the Réseau de l’information explicitly encouraged students to break the law. After hearing the case in the fall, today Quebec Superior Court Judge Denis Jacques issued a written ruling saying he agreed.
Morasse’s lawyer has asked for a prison sentence for Nadeau-Dubois. The sentencing hearing will be in Quebec City on November 9. He faces up to a year in prison, but that could also be commuted to a fine of up to $5,000 or community service.
The Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ), which was at the heart of the organization for which Nadeau-Dubois was the spokesperson, denounced the ruling. In a release, they said that they stand by Nadeau-Dubois and that his words at the time were a reflection of the stance of the entire organization, and not simply his own. They also state that they will be working with Nadeau-Dubois to see what possible recourse he may have, including supporting him in an appeal. Nadeau-Dubois has said he will react publicly tomorrow.
Nadeau-Dubois’ statement to RDI that resulted in the accusation was the following:
“It is regretable that a small minority of students are using the courts to circumvent the collective decision that was taken. We therefore find it completely legitimate that people take the necessary measures to ensure the strike vote is respected. If that requires picket lines, we believe that’ss completely legitimate.”
Nadeau-Dubois is one of 3,000 other people who face charges or were found guilty of crimes during the student strike, which lasted from February to early September. Since the tuition fee hike was rolled back by the Parti Québécois after their election on Sept. 4, l’ASSÉ and others have turned their attention to getting the charges against those 3,000 people dropped, as well as calling for a public, independent inquiry into police actions during the strike.
Here is Dubois in action:
Now, what makes this somewhat more disturbing is the fact that the Canadian Federation of Students gave them thirty thousand dollars of OUR STUDENT money to further their cause . Nora Loretto wrote on one of her twitter posts the following :
Loretto was the communications and media person for the CFS until recently and as a person in that position, to be advocating that students ruin the rest of their lives by knowingly and willing breaking the law is beyond contemptuous, as it clearly shows a blatant disregard for the future of the very students she claims to represent at the time she wrote this.
Here are a few example of what these students were encouraged to do:
Now please forgive me, however, i am still trying to understand how throwing rocks at people of windows is actually going help lower post secondary education tuition fees. Seems to me that this guy is, however, going to get himself a decent education in some prison learning to finer points of eating crayons and drawing on prison walls.
Next, can someone please explain to me the reason that students, supposedly educated students, are engaging in acts of arson? How is this going to lower tuition fees?
I indicated early on that i was working on a series of stories about bullying and the effects that this has on students. I think that this as shown is a text book example of bullying by persons who have agendas and need bodies to make it happen. they, therefore, conscript and hold hostage unsuspecting and far too often, unwilling , innocent persons , for no reason other than to intimidate. I will address this in far greater detail in a separate series of articles coming soon. What the students NEED to know is that these organizations that make claims to be representing students really do NOT have your interests in mind in any way shape of form. They are self serving and looking out for their own interests only , collecting YOUR money as they try and accomplish this …. and you don’t even get a say in this .
[A callout by the Anti-Capitalist Convergence of Montreal / Un appel de la Convergence les luttes anticapitalistes de Montréal (CLAC)]
