Réseau de Résistance du Québécois
| Réseau de Résistance du Québécois | |
|---|---|
| Dates of operation | December 2007-Present |
| Motives | Independence of Quebec |
| Active region(s) | Quebec, Canada |
| Ideology |
Quebec sovereigntism Quebec nationalism |
| Status | Active |
The Réseau de Résistance du Québécois (RRQ) (English: Québécois Network of Resistance) is a small fringeQuebec nationalist group founded in 2007 that advocates Quebec sovereignty. In 2008, the RRQ claimed a membership of 500 people. The RRQ have released a manifesto, called "Manifeste du Réseau de Résistance du Québécois (RRQ)".
In January 2008, the RRQ accused the organizers of Quebec City’s 400th anniversary celebrations of being revisionists.
On March 17, 2008, the RRQ marched at the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Montreal. Members of the RRQ waved Quebec, Patriote and Irish flags. The RRQ also planned to distribute leaflets commemorating links between Irish Canadians and Quebecers, including the involvement of Irish immigrants in the Patriote movement of 1837 in Lower Canada, as Quebec was known at the time. However, both the Mouvement Québec français and the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal, two larger Québec nationalist groups, distanced themselves from the RRQ's march.
In January 2009, the RRQ campaigned against the combat reenactment of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Montreal Gazette's Quebec affairs columnist Don Macpherson wrote that the RRQ used propaganda of the deed combined with threats of violence and that played a major role in the cancellation of the reenactment. A spokesperson for the group, retired Quebec filmmaker Pierre Falardeau stated that if the reenactment took place, "some people will get their asses kicked". The RRQ said that for visiting spectators the reenactment would offer "a trip they won't soon forget". Patrick Bourgeois, of the RRQ stated, "The re-enactment is off, that's great. This thing unleashed passions. But ultimately, the responsibility for all of this is the people who concocted this dim-witted plan. Sure, we were promoting civil disobedience. But so were they. The potential for violence was there.”
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