CTV interview<\/a><\/strong> with ELAN Executive Director Guy Rodgers.<\/em><\/p>\nThe Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) was created 24 years ago as an alternative to Alliance Quebec, which had lost the support of many English-speaking Quebeckers. For more than 20 years, hundreds of staff and volunteers have contributed their expertise, time and passion to build a community network that could defend their interests and give voice to their priorities.<\/p>\n
A new QCGN president summer was elected in June 2018. By the end of the summer, QCGN was engaged in a battle with long-time ally, the Community Health and Social Services Network (CHSSN). Community members demanded to know why these pillars of our community were fighting rather than working together. The root cause appeared to be the usual suspects: money and power.<\/p>\n
QCGN levelled incendiary accusations against its former partner. An email on November 27, 2018 from QCGN President Geoffrey Chambers to CHSSN President Ron Creary says: \u201cWe are aware of the campaign that CHSSN leadership has undertaken to bully and threaten community leadership, who might otherwise not support your activities, into getting in line.\u201d<\/p>\n
These accusations were denied by CHSSN, and by all of the community groups allegedly being bullied into submission because they had received some new community development funds.<\/p>\n
Next, QCGN\u2019s new president alienated most of QCGN\u2019s own regional associations by accusing them of being manipulated by the newly created Secretariat for Relations with English-Speaking Quebecers. QCGN\u2019s new president claimed to have evidence that the Secretariat and the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec (CAQ) government were manipulating gullible elements of the English-speaking community. Despite repeated requests, not a shred of evidence has been produced.<\/p>\n
The Secretariat was created in 2017 at the request of the English-speaking community, for the benefit of the English-speaking community. Many community groups were disturbed by QCGN\u2019s seemingly gratuitous attacks on a Secretariat that they have appreciated. Similarly, while many in the English-speaking community share concerns about the new CAQ government and the controversial Bills 21 and 40, they do not see any sense in accusing the Legault government of a deliberate plan to divide and disrupt the English speaking community.<\/p>\n
Over the past year, the situation has deteriorated. To protest QCGN leadership\u2019s indiscriminate hostility against perceived enemies and adversaries, as well as former friends and allies, a third of QCGN\u2019s voting members have resigned (including ELAN, the Quebec Writers\u2019 Federation and the Quebec Drama Federation), along with two former honorary life members of QCGN, and half of QCGN\u2019s board of directors. The new president of QCGN continues to blame improbable conspiracies and nefarious political forces for these deepening divisions in the community. At no time has the president acknowledged the possibility that any part of the problem has anything to do with him. And that is a serious problem.<\/p>\n
Guy Rodgers<\/strong>
\nExecutive Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot of CTV interview with ELAN Executive Director Guy Rodgers. The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) was created 24 years ago as an alternative to Alliance Quebec, which had lost the support of many English-speaking Quebeckers. For more than 20 years, hundreds of staff and volunteers have contributed their expertise, time and passion to build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":31556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,260,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-media-room","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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