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The Réseau de Résistance du Québecois (RRQ) (Template:Lang-en) is a militant politically radical fringe Quebec nationalist organization, which is part of the Quebec sovereignty movement.

History

In the 1960s the Quiet Revolution was a period of intense change in Quebec, characterized by the rapid and effective secularization of society, the creation of a welfare state and a re-alignment of politics into federalist and separatist factions. Radical Quebec independence organizations have been formed since the 1990s, including the Mouvement de Libération Nationale du Québec in 1995 and later in 2007 the RRQ.

Support

The RRQ as a group experiences marginalization in Quebec and is not an official political party with the majority of the 40% of Quebecs' population that support independence, supporting traditional Quebec separatist political parties like the Parti Québécois and the Bloc Québécois. The RRQ, claims a membership of only 500 people.

Campaigns

On September 16, 2006, Patrick Bourgeois, the leader of the RRQ denounced Jan Wong's article, which controversially linked all three Quebec school shootings of the last two decades—1989 École Polytechnique Massacre (15 deaths), 1992 Concordia University Massacre (four deaths), and 2006 Dawson College Shooting (2 deaths)—to the purported alienation brought about by “the decades-long linguistic struggle” within the province of Quebec.

In January 2008, the RRQ launched a campaign against Quebec City’s 400th anniversary celebrations and accused the organizers of being revisionists.

On March 17, 2008, the RRQ protested the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Montreal claiming it was too English, the RRQ waved Quebec, Patriote and Irish flags. Also the RRQ distributed leaflets commemorating links between Irish and Quebecers, including the involvement of Irish immigrants in the Patriote movement of 1837 in Lower Canada, as Quebec was known at the time. Patrick Bourgeois, the president of the RRQ, said that there are parallels between nationalism in Quebec and in Ireland. “The Irish Catholics fought to be respected, to defend their identity. We Quebec indépendantistes see ourselves in that. We’re taking the time to underline that

To ANYONE erasing the paragraph up there, you can't discredit information because you don't agree with RRQ. Are you not suppose to be NEUTRAL ?

In January 2009, the RRQ launched a major campaign against the 250th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which ended the rule of France in New France and replaced it with the rule of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The RRQ's threats of violence played a major role in the cancellation of the reenactment. A spokesperson for the group, retired Quebec filmmaker Pierre Falardeau stated that if the reenactment took place, "some people will get their asses kicked". The RRQ said to visiting spectators that the reenactment would offer "a trip they won't soon forget". Patrick Bourgeois, of the RRQ stated, "The re-enactment is off, that's great. This thing unleashed passions. But ultimately, the responsibility for all of this is the people who concocted this dim-witted plan.Sure, we were promoting civil disobedience. But so were they. The potential for violence was there.”

On June 23, 2009, Lake of Stew, an anglophone music group playing at the L'Autre St. Jean concert for the St. Jean Baptiste festivities at Pelican Park in Rosemont, Quebec, was heckled by the RRQ, but the heckling was met mostly with disdain by those in the audience and the band played on to cheers. Guillaume Duchesneau, a member of the RRQ, stated, "I don't think there should be two anglophone bands here. It's the patriotic celebration of Quebec started by a Quebec patriot, Ludger Duvernay in 1834, and it's like an oppression seeing groups sing here in English."

See also

• Mouvement de Libération Nationale du Québec
• Front de libération du Québec

References

1. Chung, Andrew (2009-09-04). "Brave CBC under fire on the Plains of Abraham". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
2. MacPherson, Don (2009-09-15). "Only in Quebec, you say?". The Gazette. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
3. ^ Hamilton, Graeme (2009-09-14). "No sign French lost Plains of Abraham". National Post. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
4. ^ McCord Museum: Québec independence movement
5. "St. Patrick's Day parade too English, says sovereignist group". The Gazette. 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
6. "La maison de verre de Jan Wong" by Patrick Bourgeois, Le Québécois, September 21, 2006.
7. http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?k=19816&id=7ffd5a94-5a07-45c8-97ba-5eee95b8597e
8. MacPherson, Don (2009-02-24). "Better late than never : Marois cuts ties with violent groups". Vigile.net. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
9. Nurwisah, Ron (2009-02-17). "Graeme Hamilton: Waving a white flag over the Plains". National Post. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
10. "Fighting Old Battles:A 250-year-old Defeat Still Rankles". The Economist. Feb 26th 2009. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |accessed= ignored (help)
11. ^ MacPherson, Don (2009-02-17). "Retreat! Battlefields Commission backs down". The Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
12. "Plains of Abraham re-enactment cancelled". CTV Television Network. 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
13. "Separatists win Plains of Abraham battle". The Globe and Mail. 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
14. ^ "Sovereignists heckle Lake of Stew at L'Autre St. Jean". The Gazette. 2009-06-23. Retrieved 2009-09-15.

External links

• Template:Fr icon Réseau de Résistance du Québécois Official Site

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