2023-09-10 20:30:00
It’s a funny coincidence. The same week, two people who had been placed “out of society”, considered in some way as outcasts, returned.
Éric Lapointe launches his 16th album and gives a show at the Capitole in Quebec.
Maripier Morin (who already started on radio at WKND) sees his return to TV confirmed in With a beating heart on Radio-Canada.
Proof that it is not stage managers, nor the Moral Police or the BPDLCWDP (right-thinking Plateau Woke Clique) who can predict how long an artist’s purgatory will last.
You’re the audience. Period.
IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE
In his exclusive interview with Journal, Éric Lapointe confided to my colleague Alexandre Caputo: “Choosing this profession means choosing criticism, choosing the judgment of others and choosing insecurity. But I think I still have my place.”
Not only does he still have his place, but the public gave him a more than warm welcome at the Capitol. Inveterate fans even already knew the lyrics of the songs from his new album by heart… released the day before!
• Read also: Exclusive interview with Éric Lapointe: “I think I still have my place”
In March 2022, when a small cabal on the web questioned the presence of Éric Lapointe at a Maple Festival, I wrote this: “Éric Lapointe pleaded guilty in 2019 in a case of assault . I don’t want to minimize or trivialize the actions taken by the rocker. But the criminal and penal prosecutor, together with the defense lawyer, requested a conditional discharge. And the judge endorsed their joint suggestion. Lapointe was not sentenced to any prison time! And should the “popular court” be more severe with Éric Lapointe than the official court? Lapointe faced justice. Why also impose a professional penalty on him?”
It won’t surprise you if I tell you that a year and a half later, my opinion hasn’t changed one bit.
Last week, at the restaurant, a man introduced himself to me: “Hello, I am Mr. I wanted to thank you for the numerous texts in which you defended the presumption of innocence.”
Thank you teacher. But in a society governed by the law, it should be self-evident, like the right to full defense.
It’s like you’re thanking me for saying water is wet.
The question is rather: “Why don’t more of us defend these principles?”
WITCH HUNT
As for Maripier Morin, it was following an interview with Fabienne Larouche on QUB radio that his television destiny changed.
In January 2021, on my show, the producer declared regarding Morin: “There is a moment when redemption and atonement for the fault, there is a limit. We’re not going to burn her at the stake!”
Maripier saw the text of Journal Summarizing this interview, she contacted Fabienne Larouche and the rest is history.
How many artists are champing at the bit right now in Quebec waiting to be told: “The witch hunt is over?
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