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Sen. Jacques Demers showed his discontent at the national caucus meeting by telling the PM that his decision was out of the blue. The Former NHL coach Jacques Demers was shaken by PM’s selection of Persichilli. He says the PM must have contemplated the matter before taking any steps.
Demers told the reporters, “First of all, before talking against francophone Quebecers, he should have thought about it twice.”
Once Toronto Star columnist Angelo Persichilli is now PM Harper’s director of communications. This decision of the PM House has infuriated all the Quebecers who criticize his inability to speak French and are surprised by his opinion about Quebec as articulated in his writings.
In April, columnist Angelo Persichilli wrote:
“Many are tired of the annoying lament from a province that keeps yelling at those who pay part of its bills and are concerned by the over-representation of francophones in our bureaucracy, our Parliament and our institutions.”
In 2010, Persichilli wrote a column regarding “overrepresentation” of francophones in federal institutions which offended Quebecers and Jacques Demers in particular.
Demers also said: “I am not the one who hired him but it annoyed me and it disturbed me because we francophone Quebecers already have enough difficulty trying to express ourselves. At the level of defending our language, he did not meet the standards expected… It wasn’t me who hired him. Absolutely, I’m angry. But it’s not my decision.”
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First of all, the fact that Demers is a senator is a joke in itself and only underscores the need to do away with this useless bunch of old wind bags whose only funciton seems to be to further deplete the tax base; “take the money and run”.
Second, anyone that has been involved in the government, if only in the civil service knows that Persichilli’s comments are true. For example the biligual services requirements in both the federal and provincial governments are counterproductive. I would rather have compentant unilingual sevice than much of what now is incompentent bilingual service. I think Mr. Demers should be more disturbed about the double standard and the truth of the matter and not that someone who has dared to print their opinion now serves as a government employee.