Nous vaincrons!
That translates as "We will overcome!" What's so bad about that? Well, it was an FLQ slogan.
Perhaps you're not familiar with the Front de libération du Québec. They were a separatist terrorist organization responsible for a fair amount of violence in the 1960s and 1970s, including a wave of bombings in 1963 targeting federal buildings and businesses owned by anglophones, further bombings in 1968, the bombing of the Montreal stock exchange, the bombing of the home of the mayor of Montreal, violent riots, the murder of a police officer, the attempted kidnapping of an Israeli diplomat, and the October Crisis.
This is a group responsible for political violence, violent unrest, and maiming and murdering innocents.
This is a group that the new Bloc leader has linked himself to, if obliquely. "Nous vaincrons," indeed...
Of course, M. Beaulieu is defending what he said, insisting that they're just words which have no FLQ associations. For probably the only time in my life, I agree with former Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe:
“I can’t associate myself with people who yell, ‘Nous vaincrons.’ We know what that means. It’s completely irresponsible, unconscionable,”
Source: CBC News
Revolting.
