The summer tour of the leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec, Éric Duhaime, seems to be floundering because of the refusal of restaurateurs and microbrewers to see him and his activists in their businesses.
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“I don’t want to see a political rally by Eric Duhaime in my establishment. I cancelled. They never told us it was a political rally. Him, it’s no, ”lambasted at the end of the line Vladimir Antonoff, co-owner of the microbrewery and pizzeria Hopera, in Jonquière, reached by phone.
These are customers who notified the restaurateur of the situation, by email, after seeing information on social media from the Conservative Party of Quebec and Eric Duhaime about the summer political rallies of the training.
Mr. Antonoff was the first to react since he does not carry it in his heart. He notified the other microbreweries or restaurants in Saguenay that were on Mr. Duhaime’s agenda. “It doesn’t represent our values. We don’t want to see him at home, ”said Mr. Antonoff in an interview.
The latter wrote a very incisive message to Eric Duhaime and his supporters on his personal Facebook account: “So the event is canceled because one is a retrograde cellar asti, two, we were not at current, of three that, makes me feel good to speak to his representative to cancel by assuming our convictions and our values and they are worth more than a little cash ”.
Her post was going viral as of this writing on Friday. The anticonspis site “Ménage du dimanche” and the philosopher Xavier Camus quickly shared the responses of restaurateurs and brewers.
For her part, the owner of the Microbrasserie du Lac St-Jean in Saint-Gédéon, Annie St-Hilaire, refuses that she or her business be associated with Éric Duhaime, the Conservative Party of Quebec or the conspiracy movement.
“We make beer and not politics. If they had come for just a beer, everything would have been okay [sic]. But I was not happy when I saw that he was announcing his little gathering at our place. He published it on his party’s Facebook page without telling us about it, ”lamented Mr.me St-Hilaire, to whom we also spoke.
Baine Wayne, the owner of Bistro Café Summum in Chicoutimi, for his part, refused to give an interview to the media. But his message posted on Facebook is very clear: “I would like to point out that Mr. Duhaime invited himself to the Summum without our permission. I would like to clarify that we have never been informed [sic] and that we find this practice questionable. It goes without saying that he will never pass through the doors of our establishment ”.
“I understand these restaurateurs and I don’t blame them. They have had a terrible year and it is a normal reflex when many customers complain. We will find another place for our gatherings, ”Éric Duhaime told us in reaction to this controversy.
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