IUC World Exclusive: Hosts of Tout Le Monde En Parle Deny All
This has been the worst week of my life. I have barely slept since the taping and airing of Tout Le Monde En Parle. Ever since host Dany Turcotte gave me a card saying he’d burn my books in a fire page by page it has been horrifying for me, my family and my friends. I am the son of a Holocaust survivor. Mr. Turcotte’s statements, broadcast on Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom Hashoah, unfortunately conjured up memories to my close ones of how the Nazis proclaimed in Nuremberg and other German cities “where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people.” My grandfather, the late Joseph Halperin, lost his wife, his daughter, 13 brothers and the rest of his family during the World War II. Him and my father were the only ones in their family to make it out alive. They hid in a cave for almost seven years. Everyone beside them was murdered or died of starvation.
If the hosts would have made a goodwill gesture, and at the very least admitted they treated me improperly, it would have been a good step in the right direction. Instead they denied any mistreatment at all and blamed the vicious attacks on none other than myself. According to news reports, Dany Turcotte was laughing after he made his denial. Guy A. Lepage said the show not only had me for lunch but also had me bring sandwiches. I’m left speechless. Also, I have received several threats on my life. Most likely they’re just pranks but still I must take precautions. I wish this was all a bad dream and I would soon wake up from it. Peace out all!!!! Thank you all for your support. I have faith that in the end justice will prevail. (showbizz.net) (Rue Frontenac)
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You had bad treatment, that’s for sure, but I dont think the host wanted to make anti-semistic remarks. They just were clumsy and innapropriate, but not racist. Dany Turcotte card was pretty stupid, I do agree, and I understand how it is kind of horrifying for you, as a jew. It was stupid, but not racist, at least not intending to be racist.
If you want to keep your credibility during your mise en demeure process, you should focus on the fact they attacked your reputation rather than your ethnic origin. I feel a lot of people didn’t see any racist attack until you mentionned it. If you want to have the population support, fight for what they did to your reputation instead of playing the racism card.
ReplyYour father survived the Holocaust ?
I read about those incridible cases. Pure miracles. Something to do with gas tolerance. Some have even survived the cremation !
Think about it, you are a TLMEP survivor.
You are entitled to your compensation, man !
Then write a book ! You are a witness !
MILLIONS !!
Maybe even a NOBEL PRIZE !!
Man, I wish I was a Jew !!
ReplyFor Turcotte / lepage, you have no right to demythologize the artists. Here is your crime.
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Pour Turcotte/lepage, vous n’avez pas le droit de démythifier les artistes. Voilà votre crime.
I feel for you Ian. I wished they would have apologize. True nature of people are shown and it’s not nice. I wish the best for you and your family. The shoah is an atrocity. Please people who take the time to write on this site, have respect.
ReplyI’m sorry what happened to you, Ian. You are better than those ignorant people.
ReplyUne question qui me vient à l’esprit dans notre contexte francophone québécois où les partis politiques, les postes de télévisions, la fonction publique, les universités, les syndicats se targuent de promouvoir l’égalité pour les minorités et mettent à l’avant-plan les membres de minorités visibles, sans compter les millions de dollars accordés en subventions aux divers établissements et programmes censés promouvoir les bonnes relations et combattre le racisme : comment se fait-il que périodiquement (faut-il rappeler l’épisode des Têtes à claques ?) de telles bévues se produisent dans nos médias francophones ? Ces derniers sont-ils imperméables à tous ces efforts de sensibilisation en matière de relations interraciales ? Pourquoi, par exemple, les médias anglophones du Québec et du reste du Canada (les mainstream medias, tels CBC ou CTV) ne provoquent-ils pas de telles controverses ? Y a-t-il, dans ces milieux, une symbiose entre les groupes «minoritaires» et les concepteurs des émissions que l’on souhaiterait retrouver dans les médias francophones et qui, jusqu’à date, fait défaut ?
http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=34101&L=fr
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Comme quoi la situation ne s’améliore pas.
ReplyGébé Tremblay: please stop imitating Turcotte with your jokes. Cessez de vous comporter, comme lui, en bouffon provincial dépourvu de tact, de sensibilité et de professionnalisme.
Reply@Gébé Tremblay:
ReplyWhoOooooOOohoooo!!! Continue à faire le lâche, cher “J’ai bien tremblé” qui porte bien son nom. Tant que tu niaiseras je te hanterai!!! WhooooHooOooOooo!!!
“Une question qui me vient à l’esprit dans notre contexte francophone québécois où les partis politiques, les postes de télévisions, la fonction publique, les universités, les syndicats se targuent de promouvoir l’égalité pour les minorités et mettent à l’avant-plan les membres de minorités visibles, sans compter les millions de dollars accordés en subventions aux divers établissements et programmes censés promouvoir les bonnes relations et combattre le racisme : comment se fait-il que périodiquement (faut-il rappeler l’épisode des Têtes à claques ?) de telles bévues se produisent dans nos médias francophones ? Ces derniers sont-ils imperméables à tous ces efforts de sensibilisation en matière de relations interraciales ? Pourquoi, par exemple, les médias anglophones du Québec et du reste du Canada (les mainstream medias, tels CBC ou CTV) ne provoquent-ils pas de telles controverses ? Y a-t-il, dans ces milieux, une symbiose entre les groupes «minoritaires» et les concepteurs des émissions que l’on souhaiterait retrouver dans les médias francophones et qui, jusqu’à date, fait défaut ?”
http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=34101&L=fr
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De toutes évidences rien n’a changé.
Replyhttp://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=34101&L=fr
Reply“Pour aimer le Québec et sa langue, il faut qu’on soit séduit par la culture des Québécois.
Donc :
- Parlez moins des luttes et plus des réalisations des Québécois.
- Donner moins de place aux humoristes qui ne font que sacrer.
- Parlez des réussites du Québec et incorporez les nouveaux Québécois dans ces réussites.
- Parlez des auteurs du Québec, et surtout, citez-les. Redonnez vie à leurs pensées et à leurs écrits en les faisant revivre dans vos propres pensées et dans vos conversations. Donnez le goût de lire la littérature d’ici.
http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=78878&L=fr
Écoutez, à titre d’exemple, les émissions françaises de variétés et observez comment les Français, au fil d’une conversation, au milieu d’une phrase, citent leurs auteurs.”
Replyi think those guys are despicable, ian. my german teacher in college was a holocaust survivior and still had his concentraion camp tatoo. anybody who would make a crude joke like that is just an anti semitic asshole. love your books and have bought several off amazon. keep making noise and exposing these jerks.
ReplyThis whole situation is so awful……Stay strong Ian:)
ReplyThere is no place like the Montreal ghetto to write about Michael Jackson, Angelina Jolie & Brad Pit.
Are you not afraid the Québécois nazis make a lampshade (a nice pink one) out of you, Your Highness ?
ReplyM. Ian Halperin, ne vous en faites surtout pas pour ça, j’ai lu votre livre sur Guy Laiberté et vous avez fait plusieurs recherches et je crois que la plupart c’est vrai, qu on aime ou non. Tant qu’au raciste, non l’animateur n’était pas au courant de vos ancêtres. Pas une question de raciste. Laissez tomber. Vous n’êtes pas le premier d’avoir eu un tel traitement qui a passé à cette émission. Je crois au contraire que vos livres vont encore plus se vendre, sans le savoir ces animateurs vous ont fait de la publicité. J’achèterai vos livres. Soyez fort et ne vous lassez pas abattre.
ReplyWhat Turcotte/Lepage said: “we are not racists or antisemites”. What they thought of adding: “neither was Hitler, since he had quarter -jewis soldiers and a number of half-jewish soldiers in his army.”
ReplyIan Halperin,
Replyon a voulu vous faire mal paraître c’est clair. Vous êtes quelqu’un qui a des choses intéressante à révéler et TLMEP est complétement passé à côté de ce qui s’annonçait une bonne entrevue. Guy A., Turcotte, Jasmin Roy et Robinson ont tous baissé dans mon estime. J’étais mal à l’aise devant leur attitude, j’avais honte pour eux. Cela dit, votre réaction, en faire un cas d’anti-sémitisme est exagérée. It’s like you want to get even. Comme si vous vouliez les salir. Et à mon sens c’est une erreur. Croyez moi plus vite vous oublierez ces imbéciles mieux vous vous porterez.
Turcotte/Lepage se comportent en bouffons provinciaux parfois dépourvus de tact, de sensibilité et de professionnalisme. C’est là le succès de l’émission. La tribu se reconnait. Merci à Lucien Bouchard pour ne pas participer à ce festival bien sûr divertissant. Que de compromissions ne fera pas Radio-Canada pour atteindre son veau d’or: divertir (vient du latin divertere: distraire).
Plus nous sommes un peuple de distraits, plus nous en sommes fiers, au point de devenir arrogants comme Turcotte/Lepage, de participer à l’esprit de meute qu’ils encouragent, et de devenir incapables de voir les choses autrement qu’à travers leurs yeux de prima donnas soucieuses de défendre à tout prix leurs intérêts artistiques.
Suggestion de plaque d’immatriculation: non plus “je me souviens”, mais “la province distraite, et fière de l’être”.
Quand Turcotte/Lepage ont dit: “nous ne somme ni racistes ni antisémites”, j’ai presqu’eu peur que Turcotte ne rajoute: “et Hitler ne l’était sans doute pas non plus , puisqu’il y avait des soldats quart-juifs et un certain nombre de soldats demi-juifs dans son armée”. Voilà où nous mène l’humour à la Turcotte: dire des choses qu’une certaine tribu peut penser “rigolo”, mais qui ne le sont pas. Mes hommages au grand-père de Ian Halperin, à sa grand-mère, ainsi qu’à 13 de ses grand-oncles qui ont péri dans la Shoah. Il n’avait pas à se faire dire, le jour de la commémoration de l’Holocauste, que Turcotte ferait un holocauste de son livre, que ce soit sur une île déserte ou ailleurs.
Reply@honorable:
ReplyHow far those this go?
Man look at yourself in the mirror before screaming Racisms or anti-Semites…. you’ve just compare two people with Hitler. That just pisses me off. How easily the people like you cry of injustice in the world but when they head back home they are ready to screw up the people for fame or money… or even better sue for millions for “Racist” or “anti-Semites” comment that never happened…
WAY THE GO HYPOCRITES
@Andrew:
I have simply given an example of the type of humor the Turcotte style of humor might lead to. I have compared no one to Hilter, but I have insinuated that the Turcotte style of humor is very “risqué” and potentially offensive. Please read again calmly, or ask for a good translator.
If you find offensive my example, you are however on the rigt track. That was my point: indicate that what Turcotte finds “rigolo” is not rigolo for everyone.
ReplyTurcotte/Lepage auraient du dire : « nous n’aurions pas dû suggérer un holocauste du livre de M. Halperin le jour même de la commémoration de l’Holocauste. Notre ignorance nous a fait errer ; des propos que nous croyions inoffensifs, et qui l’auraient été si dirigés vers un membre de notre « tribu », étaient de fait offensants pour M. Halperin et les nombreux membres de sa famille morts en holocauste il n’y a pas si longtemps. »
Dossier réglé, alors, quant à moi, et aussi probablement quant à M. Halperin. Mais Turcotte/Lepage ont été trop prima donnas pour faire ce léger acte d’humilité.
Etant donné la culture résolument provinciale de ces humoristes (ce n’est pas un reproche ; nul ne peut être savant en tout), mon conseil est le suivant : inviter n’importe quel membre de la « tribu » pure-laine ou artistique, mais n’inviter que des non-membres qu’ils admirent, ou pour lesquels ils ont un respect minimal. Cela éviterait les dérives qu’on a vues envers M. Halperin.
ReplyThey were still mocking Ian last night in their statements. Their attitude is disgusting. They take nothing seriously because they are humorists. They’re not human… they’re humorists. I’m racist to humorists. Too many of this kind in Quebec and they make of them king of hosts. They’re everywhere on TV and on radio. Encore une fois, on parle du haut taux de décrochage scolaire au Québec: http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/quebeccanada/archives/2010/04/20100419-042500.html Justement, la culture et la curiosité intellectuelle manque ici et malheureusement le reflet est visible à la télé et à la radio.
Reply@Andrew:
ReplySome Quebeckers aren’t as good as any other Provinces or States too. You know what some say if they’re not happy there…
J’aime le Québec et je suis né à Montréal. Mes parents sont nés ailleurs mais ça fait une trentaine d’années qu’ils ont immigrés ici et ensuite mes frères et moi sommes nés. Ce que je trouve hyper déplorable c’est que plusieurs gens refusent d’être empathiques et de regarder les gens des autres cultures comme une richesse. Ils les voient presque toujours comme une menace ou une emmerde. Il faut pas mettre tout le monde dans le même panier. Beaucoup de Québécois sont ouverts, cultivés, instruits et sensibles aux autres. Beaucoup sont très généreux aussi. On a vu comment le Québec a donné lors du méga séisme en Haïti. L’aide était immense et il faut le reconnaitre. Beaucoup de Québécois ont un grand coeur et sont vraiment aimables, mais beaucoup sont renfermés sur eux-mêmes et agissent comme des gens qui n’évoluent pas. C’est ce qui est décrié surtout par quelques-uns des commentaires ici. En tout cas, dans mon cas c’est ce que je veux signifier. Je n’encourage pas la haine envers personne, je souhaite seulement le respect et l’ouverture à l’autre. À l’époque où on est, on se doit de préconiser l’harmonie et le respect au Canada et partout dans le monde. les guerres franco/anglo doivent cesser ici. Ça fait trop longtemps et c’est le temps de passer à autre chose. Ça n’a pas d’allure. Ce que je trouve spécialement dégueulasse dans l’attitude de Guy A. Lepage et de Danny Turcotte hier soir, c’est qu’ils n’ont même pas pris la peine de s’excuser pour l’attitude “bully” qu’ils ont eu et encouragé sur le plateau du tournage du 11 avril contre Ian. S’ils ne voulaient pas s’excuser pour les accusations de racisme s’imaginant qu’ils n,ont rien à se reprocher, ils auraient dû par contre s’excuser pour la lâcheté et la puérilité dont ils ont fait preuve. Cette attitude est non professionnelle et caractérielle de l’étroitesse d’esprit et l’amour de la mesquinerie de ces individus “humoristes” qui se prennent eux-mêmes trop au sérieux et trop importants, avec leur attitude condescendante puante, alors qu’ils ont de quoi à se faire pardonner.
ReplyTLMEP is such a dumb show. Lepage + Turcotte = clumzy and arrogant self-importance. They do gossip ALL the time. It is a show about gossip. The titles says it: Everyone talks about it. What irony.
ReplyWell done Vincent, you hit the mark.
Je me demande ou est-ce qu’il est partie la tolérance de notre cher Guy Favreau? Bien loin, on voit très bien….merci TLMEP pour nous donner une raison de ne plus regarder votre émission.
Maybe you kids in the schoolyard should read how immature you are with your denial? :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism see Level 2.
No, no D+G are not jealous that this guy has made the top of the NYT list for writing stuff they would burn (hmmm, Francosupremacists you feel that if it’s not written by the Clan, it is crap, right? C’est de l’argent sale car c’est écrit par un crasseur, right?) – they are way below your level Ian even if they have tried to lower you down to theirs – in front of Millions too, but they still cannot.
Good job TLMEP for making Quebeckers look backwards in front of the world yet again, and with our tax paying dollars too? Au plaisir, Chumps! Je vous dénonce d’avoir participé passif/activement à ce jeux de Group Bullying – and well done Ian for keeping up with therapeutic writing Ian, it will help to overcome this ridiculous wall of denial.
At the Caisse de Défauts, months before the greatest lost of that organisation’s history I was told not to write down anything about incompetence, nor go around trying to fix things, `dans ce domaine, c’est petit ici’ – people will try, as they have in many of the comments, to intimidate you as a victim. Stand tall. They yelled at me, ‘you don’t know what you are talking about’ when I asked them to use Risk and Change Management Templates (incidentally, front page of Simple-Talk.com today, ladies and gents, based in Cambridge, UK, by the top tech company in the whole Anglia region) – then months later after all the ‘this has gone on long enough’ intimidation from Yves Roy, former PVP of Plateformes Analytiques (en Interim seulement) we hear that he is fired and, around the same time, Sabia put in place to make sure RISK was managed properly. AND confirmed by Bachand last summer (satisfait du niveau de la gestion du risque) that H.P. Rousseau`s scapegoat of ‘il n’y avait pas de plafond à cette investissement là’ for letting Billions fly out the window in ABCP. All the while, the latter walked out with a golden parachute! Is there any greater hyprocrisy in CDN history when you compare this to the whole scandale des commandites mes amis? Soyez Lucides!
Ian, just brush it off and listen to the positive support from those of us who have lived elsewhere in the world also, and know all too well how much the illusion tranquille has ruined this province in the past generation. Move forward with your legal pursuits and file a complaint with the Human Rights Commission, Civil Suits, the lot, these bullies deserve the hardest smack on the head you can give them – it is the only way they will learn to respect minorities. If you leave, which I hope you never do, it would be just another example of ethnic cleansing that has been going on for a good generation.
To Suzanne – it is rather hard to let something like this drop – has he had any sleep? Was this attack wanted? Pensez-y, il faut plus faire ce gendre d’attaque gratuite envers les minorités au Québec.
ReplyTo Guy, it is not about getting even, it is about admitting that they went too far – and that they cannot bring themselves to do it seems. Is it so hard to say ‘we are sorry.’ Il n’y a pas de gestes ou de bonne volonté de leur part, so until they do Respect must be demanded. It is the only way to have our rights valued by the tyranny of the majority who are complacent that this bullying faction amongst them in the province (because we know it is only a few who do this in the end, but the rest minimise the damage done), and continue to gang up on ‘les autres’. Shameful outmigration levels (?)– the reason is right there in front of you why. Any discrimination breeds contempt, and I am in contempt for how members of publically owned organisations feel it is their entitled right to violate our rights. We see how the system runs here (even Judges are ‘placed’), so why when another example of lack of ethics occurs the perpetrators pull their same old trick and force the victim into an epic legal battle…My Lord, did not they invite Mr Claude just for that? How ironic, isn’t it!? Maybe the next episode of the Chump and Chumpette show should be a let us raise funds for the victim we just made during our group bullying session of two weeks ago! BIG SMILEY FACE PEOPLE, we have to rebuild this province together.
Dany Turcotte and Guy A lecave are making a lot of green paper. You should sue them.
I ask you to get the censored excerpt about your origin and put it on radioego.com.
ReplyClaude Robinson is a small mind, I don’t thing he had succed if he were outside of the province of Quebec.
BREAKING: very trustworthy sources have told me that Katie Holmes was spotted w/ ex Chris Klein at the Coachella music festival in CA over the weekend. She was in CA because Tommy Boy was throwing a b-day party for Suri.
ReplyMr. Halperin:
ReplyI don’t condone any type of racism or anti-semitic behavior. That said, maybe you should do some soul searching of your own. You constantly berate, sensationalize, and publish dubious information about Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie (your favorite targets) and many others. You don’t bother confirming the information to find out if it is irrefutably true. You just publish and go “developing….” Some of the items you have put forth about the actors that you choose to attack are not proven by any means. They are whispers of gossip that have hit your ears. Cruel gossip. You don’t take the time to confirm.
Again, I don’t condone what happened to you, but maybe next time you take that whisper of gossip and try to make it into a roar–you should check the gossip out and make sure it is true.
@danielle:
ReplyWhy do you keep on saying “I don’t condone what happened to you” and then you add up things right after that make you sound like in fact you do condone what happened to him? You realize it by yourself, that’s why you repeat constantly “I don’t condone what happened to you”. We’re not talking about Brangelina here!!! The topic is racism, disrespect, disiscrimination and TLMEP. So stop biginging that up all the time.
@Keith:
ReplyKeith, if you bothered to read my post, I used don’t condone twice. My point was Ian is very upset he was attacked on an anti-semitic basis. Yet he attacks other actors (and I used Jolie and Pitt as they are his favorite targets) with absolute abandon, not caring that his gossip may not be true and in fact may be false and extremely hurtful to his target.
I don’t blame Ian for being angry about what he went through. I don’t blame him for being hurt. BUT he might want to think about the PEOPLE he is attacking in his blog and show a little compassion to them by not printing every little whisper of gossip whether true or not true.
I don’t bring the Jolie Pitts up all the time. I rarely read this blog and even more rarely post because I find the spurious nature of his claims to be upsetting from a journalistic view point. If he was stating an opinion, I wouldn’t care. But he states things as fact. Maybe it isn’t racism or anti-semitic behavior on his part, but it is lax journalistic standards and he declares himself a journalist does he not?
You state the topic is racism, disrespect, discrimination and TLMEP. Well, I’m sorry Keith, I think Ian is discriminatory in the information he puts out there about the actors/people he doesn’t like AND he is disrespectful by not publishing confirmed truths rather than idiotic gossip. And if he is going to say “story developing…” which he does constantly, it would be really nice for him to provide follow up. He certainly has on this story because it is PERSONAL. He generally does no follow up after he puts his strike on the blog and leaves the “story developing….” line.
@danielle:
ReplyBravo Danielle nicely put…
agreed, Danielle
Reply@Keith:
Replywell said Keith. these people are superficial. they don’t care about serious matters.
@danielle:
ReplyHe’s developping on that one.
That’s why so many people are following that story.
I don’t care about Brangie, Lindsay Lohan or whoever…
It’s only the second time that I visit Halperin’s web site.
I’m not a fan of his and I’m not fan a papparazzis or gossipers.
What I care is the battle against all manifestation of racism and injustice in society.
That explains why I support Ian
in what he does at this moment.
I don’t care about the type of job he has
but I care about the way he was treated
because that represents today’s reality for millions of people in our society.
Discrimination is a problem for everyday people and I feel concerned.
I don’t condone the treatment reserved to some celebrities in the medias,
but their reality is not mine and not the reality of regular people.
The lifestyle of Brangie won’t change a sh*it in the society.
But what Ian is talking about at this moment can help change important things
and attitude in the Quebec medias. I have a child and I want my kid to watch
good stuff on tv. I don’t want him to mimic the bad attitude and the words used
by some people on tv and on the radio.
@julianna:
ReplyWhen i say “the lifestyle of Brangie won’t change a sh*t in our society”,
II’m not refering to the humanatarian actions they do. I admire what they do.
I’m refering to the glamour lifestyle and the ghost of Jennifer Aniston kind of things.
@julianna:
I agree with your points. BUT that said, I’d like to see Ian upgrade his blog to legit gossip rather than so-called facts he can’t prove.
ReplyAnd you are right, this is an important battle for Ian to be fighting. But it would also be nice if he’d take this passion for right and injustice and apply it to his blog overall.
Et bien moi ce qu’ils ont rajouté (dit) au dernier TLMEP , suite a votre passage : Ca les a juste fait baissé dans mon estime. Même s’il est clair maintenant que l’estime de leur téléspectateurs , y s’en sacrent royalement.
ReplyTLMEP est pour moi terminé, je ne regarderai plus cet émission car ils n’ont aucun respect et ils me font pensé a des adolescents dans une cour d’école.
Reply@Genevieve:
ReplyTout à fait d’acord! Ils s’en sacrent bien de ce qu’on pense. Ils ont leur clique et ils savent qu’il y aura toujours du monde pour les écouter même s’ils le mérite pas. C’est comme avec le CH (Canadiens de Montréal au hockey). Ils perdent toujours et le spectacle est plate à la télé, en partant à chaque début de saison, on devine qu’ils gagneront jamais la Coupe… tout juste s’ils participent aux séries éliminatoires, pas de vedettes, on fait juste chercher comme potentiel de vedette c’est qui le prochain Patrick Roy et on bâtit chaque édition d’équipe autour de ça et POURTANT… Le monde continue à remplir le Centre Bell et à dépenser des fortunes pour les meilleures places. C’est la même chose avec Tout Le Monde En Parle. Ils peuvent traiter les gens sans les respecter et avoir n’importe quel comportement déplacé, mais les gens vont toujours les regarder. C’est ce qu’ils ont toujours fait et c’est ce qu’ils vont essayer de faire encore. J’espère bien que le CRTC va mettre ses culottes cette fois, même si “Le CRTC ne peut pas imposer d’amende, mais peut émettre un rapport, une décision, qui peuvent être pris en compte au moment du renouvellement de la licence” de ce show . Référence: http://www.canoe.com/divertissement/celebrites/nouvelles/2010/04/20/13647656-jdm.html C’est quasiment la meilleure option possible que Ian peut espérer du CRTC pour sa plainte.
@Vincent:
ReplyWell said Vincent – je te remercie beaucoup pour tes sentiments!!!!!!
@danielle:
ReplyI respect what you say Danielle. Just a couple of points. My work has been highly acclaimed by some of he world’s top publications, including The New Yorker, Times of London, The Independent and Washington Post. Remember, gossip cannot always be proved. When I’m wrong I am the first to admit my error. Sometimes, I do get duped by sources. But I’d say 9.9/10 times I’m right on.
As for human rights, I’ve been an active human rights advocate for well over 20 years, and was named a local hero by my hometown paper The Montreal Gazette for organizing benefits for the homeless. Giving back and raising awareness is extremely important to me. Enough said. Wishing you only the best.
Ian, you are horrified by book burning, yet you are essentially trying to accomplish the same thing, which is to suppress speech. It’s all the worse because you are trying to do it through “human rights” organizations. If you feel you were brought in under false pretenses and defrauded, then that is what the judicial system is for. It is not right to smash free speech over feelings or racism or anything else. People have a right to offensive speech, whether any government recognizes it or not. Not to be insensitive, but what happened to your family does not give you any claim over others’ free speech. Canada has a big problem with interest groups suppressing or driving out speech they do not agree with.
ReplyRadio-Canada has a history of hiring uneducated, uninformed hosts like Veronique Cloutier and those quoted above YET they keep hiring these idiots and putting them on the air. Where are immigrants, anglos bilingual people on Radio-Canada??? are there so many uneducated high school drop outs in Quebec that stupid Radio_Canada always puts on uneducated pure-laine trash on. This is unconscionable. it’s only white uneducated pure laines on Radio_ Canada that they hire. They NEVER EVER hire educated people of colour or anglophones or bilingual people. Their whole culture is just white french pro separatist pure laine (old white stock) type of people who get their money from english Canadians to pay for their expensive lifestyle It’s a culture of moochers and complainers. No wonder their culture is in STEEP decline culturally, economically and spiritually. They only hire their own people and always blame english canadians for ALL their problems. They never take responsibilty for their actions. So it doesn’t surprise me they won’t apologize — they never do. Radio canada still hasn’t apologized for smear and callign Barack Obama a ni**er on Bye Bye 08 with Veronique Cloutier.
ReplyLook at the Quebec public service (bigger than California’s public service and Ontario who both have a MUCH LARGER population) — 98% white french people whereas anglos and immigrants make up 17% of the population but no well paying jobs for them. No the majority of these well paying jobs go to white french proseparatists like the 2 losers who smeared you.
NO the white french pure laines take all the best jobs in culture, tv entertainment, theatre all for themselves and they are all pro separatist.
Quebec is soo fucked in all ways it’s not even funny.
@James:
People like you are just as worse as the people you call pure-laine, who do not, even if you seem to convinced of the contrary, constitute the majority of the French population in the province. The fact that you insinuate that the only culture present in the province of Quebec is the French canadian one shows how little you know about it. The anglophone culture is very much present and alive in Montreal and people like you make me ashamed to be a part of it. Thankfully, freaks like you are not in majority !
One last thing : When taking your pills, you need to follow the indications CLOSELY ! When you called Radio-Canada pro-separatist, I almost died laughing. haha. Oh and when you say that immigrants and anglophones can’t have well-paid jobs ?!? Dude ! I could name you a dozen of insurance companies in Montreal owned by anglophones, Italians who made fortunes in construction and different other companies. You are out of your mind if you consider jobs in public service as the best paid ones. Everyone has their chances, if only they work hard and seize them. We’re lucky enough to live in that kind of country, we should be thankful. This goes for anglophones, francophones, immigrants or not. I am so UTTERLY tired of people trying to revive the old anglo/franco debate.
Reply@James:
Quebec culture is so on decline that we ALWAYS win most of the prizes at Genie Awards… Wajdi Mouawad, one of the most respected theatre authors here, sound very “pure laine”… Danny Laferrière is one of the most popular authors in the province… and he was born in Haiti. Normand Brathwaite (a black man) is one of the richest entertainer in Québec. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Your hatered blinds you. Separatism exist here because of xenophobes like you who think it’s a good thing to judge an entire culture based on two or three tv show hosts’ behaviour. What a shame!
Reply@gfo:
Totally agree with it. More, I took 5 minutes to look at the blog posts on this site, and, really, it is a lot of shallow smelly horse shit. People who even care half a second of what is happenng between Jennifer Aniston and her boyfriend, really, has to be totally retards. WHO CARES? Is that it the anglo culture in Montreal?
ReplyJe voudrais ajouter ceci, des semaines après ce facheux épisode. J’ai trouvé quelque chose qui pourrait t’intéresser Ian. À la station de métro “Die Mitte” (le centre) de Berlin on voit un monument fait d’étagères vides pour commémorer les autodafés, où brille une fameuse citation de Heine : « Où l’on commence à brûler des livres on s’apprête à brûler des hommes ».
ReplyIan, I think no one should be laughed at or ridiculized the way you have been. It is not the end of the world but it is a lack of respect, I’ve seen and heard it during the whole interview, I felt sorry for you, no matter what your job is, if what you write is true or not, good or not, no matter your religion or sex or the way you dress (which is fine actually!)… Laliberté and Lepage are good in what they do but they do cross lines and go too far, I would like them to learn how to show some respect for brothers and sisters, that is you, me, the public, the guests, people who pay taxes, are hungry, thirsty, are sick and die while Mr Laliberté plays Star Trek and Mr Lepage laughes at those who are looking for the truth… Good luck, I’m behind you.
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