Québec solidaire to launch mass rallies in Sherbrooke

The Québec Solidaire party used its recent pre-election campaign launch to announce four major political rallies across the province, beginning on March 26 at Sherbrooke’s Granada Theater. The party is counting on a spring of unprecedented mobilization “to send a clear message to the political class: recess is over.”

In a communiqué released Monday, party co-spokesperson and Gouin MNA Gabriel Nadeau-dubois said that, "starting today, activists in the Sherbrooke area are preparing to fill the Granada Theater on March 26. We did not choose to start our adventure in Sherbrooke by chance. It is a progressive, young and dynamic riding. Quebec Solidaire has always been well received and we think we can elect a member in October, 2018.”

Co-spokespersons Nadeau-dubois and Manon Massé, accompanied by candidates from each region, will stop at the Granada on March 26; at the Imperial in Quebec City on April 11; at the Paramount in Rouyn-noranda on April 24; and at Montreal's Rialto Theater on May 22.

"At each rally, Gabriel and I will present our plan to transform Quebec, without filter, as only Québec Solidaire knows how to do,” added Massé, who is also MNA for Sainte-marie-saint-jacques. “We want the thousands of people who come to see us to come out with a good dose of hope and the desire to invest on the ground now. Instead of putting all our eggs in advertising and tools at $1 million, we are banking on people. That was the momentum that led to the breakthroughs of the Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and Jean-luc Mélenchon campaigns,"

"In 2012, an entire generation rose up for its future,” continued Nadeaudubois.”with the Faut qui parle tour, I met thousands of people who wanted to get out of the dead-end of old politics. While the system is abandoning everyone, Quebec Solidaire wants to break the isolation of Quebecers and give them the audacity to take Quebec back together."

On Sunday afternoon, Nadeaudubois, Massé and other party figures began the party’s pre-campaign before more than a hundred kitchen assemblies held throughout Quebec, many in Sherbrooke. These meetings stemmed from the Mouvement platform, a tool for decentralized political action described by the party as the driving force behind its next election campaign.

"We decided that the hiding is over,” concluded Massé.”our strategy is people, so we are transparent with them. Thousands of people across Quebec are ready to take action and we will gather them together and give them the means to act on their own, without looking over their shoulders. Decentralization is the future of politics, but only Quebec Solidaire can do this because people are at the heart of our party."