A text by Steven Laperriere, Vice-President, RAPLIQ
At the start of the year, with all the turmoil that Linda’s candidacy and mine in the last election campaign caused within the RAPLIQ, its membership and in the associative sector, a clarification is essential.
Historically, within the RAPLIQ, each individual has always had the freedom, without questioning and judgment, to belong to and / or support a political party of any level. Whether this individual is a member, volunteer, supporter or member of the board of directors.
Within our bodies, we had members from the Liberal Party, Parti Québécois, Québec Solidaire, Projet Montréal, Équipe Coderre and various affiliations to different federal parties.
Linda and I have chosen the Coderre Team to more effectively carry our demands regarding universal accessibility as well as certain other subjects concerning our respective boroughs. Laurent Morissette also tried his luck with Projet Montréal, for the same reasons.
That said, the campaign is a thing of the past.
Those who did not give much of the skin of RAPLIQ will be disappointed! The RAPLIQ is alive and well determined than ever despite everything!
The RAPLIQ, in its actions, has always been apolitical. We have worked with, as much as confronted, the ruling parties as well as the oppositions when the situations demanded it.
And that’s what we will continue to do. Some believe, wrongly, that bitter before the election of a Project Montreal administration, we will be inclined to confront rather than collaborate with this administration.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
Our approach is always the same: Only the results and the progress of universal accessibility count.
Experience has taught us that sometimes only confrontation and denunciation make things happen. We will never accept the unacceptable … elected or not!