MTC QUÉBEC and the Health Crisis
“Je me Souviens”*, Is the moto of the province of Quebec. “I remember” is such an apt moto for our times. Quebec is a predominately French speaking province in Eastern Canada with some 8.5 million inhabitants. Louise Paré from the Movement of Christian Workers (MTC) of Quebec has written to us to share her reflections of the Pandemic in Quebec as Canada it enters its third day under a 12-hour curfew until at least the end of January 2021.
I would like to the MCW for its invitation to me to share with you the consequences for us members of the MTC Quebec, it was impossible to refuse this invitation, for me as it’s a way to be in communion with one another through the sharing of our experiences.
Firstly, although, each person, organisation, business, and society as a whole has experienced and continues to live this crisis, somewhat differently from one continent to another, the fact remains that we have all, women and men, been touched by this global health crisis, be we from the north or the south. Of course, in different contexts and with very different means. It goes without saying that this little virus, invisible to our eyes, has had considerable overall impact on the people, organisations, businesses and the whole of Quebec society.
We had the impression at the beginning, that this crisis was going to pass very quickly, up to the day when lockdown commenced.
It was, at the start, something, the extent of which no one, not even public health officials, could have predicted. Although many quote statistics, we have to admit that this very small bug has shaken the world as much as the established order.
