The city of Quebec has withdrawn from a fiercely pro-Trump American singer the permit of a concert at the expocity scheduled for Friday, a decision which is part of a wave of cancellations in the maritime provinces.
“The presence of a controversial artist was not mentioned in the contract concluded between Expocité and the promoter of the concert planned on his site this Friday. With the new elements that have been brought to his attention, Expocité decided to terminate the contract and therefore the event on its site, “said in an email François Moisan, spokesperson for Quebec City, manager of the Expocity.
Sean Feucht, described by media as an “Christian nationalist” increasingly influential among Les Républicains, saw his license being revoked by Parcs Canada for the first concert of the tour, which was to be held at the national historic place of La Redoute-York, in Halifax.
The Domino effect is immediate: in the only day on Wednesday, the permits were removed from him in Charlottetown, in Moncton, then in Quebec.
Sean Feucht has a stop in Gatineau scheduled for Saturday for a performance at Jacques-Cartier Park, managed by the National Capital Commission (CCN), a federal agency.
The federal government has ignored our requests for comments. The CCN acknowledged receipt of our email without following our question.
A rocker with growing influence
In an article dated 1is July, the American magazine The Atlantic advance that Sean Fecht has the ear of Republicans very high placed in the Maga sphere (“Make America Great Again”).
The 41 -year -old religious rocker is regularly displayed, on his social networks, with well -viewed Republican elected officials such as Donald Trump’s Defense Minister Pete Hegseth.
Sean Feucht, described as “Maga Superstar” by the magazine, wishes the merger between the Church and the American state, believes that Donald Trump was chosen by God and judges that people in favor of abortion are “demons”.
It is followed by hundreds of thousands of people and has already presented itself in the elections of the House of Representatives of California for the Republican Party in 2020, without success.
Reasons of “public security”
In an email sent to Journal In the morning, Parks Canada explained that he had reassessed the granting of the light of “concerns” of certain “public members”.
According to various media, residents of the capital of Nova Scotia have planned to demonstrate to the historic site.
“After a careful examination, and due to increased public security concerns, Parks Canada informed the organizer that the license was revoked,” said the Federal Agency.
Sean Fecht deplored the decision of the city of Halifax in a video published on its social networks on Wednesday morning.
“It is exactly the same place where people gathered for a demonstration of pride last week. Today, they are no longer so tolerant when peaceful Christians want to meet, ”he says.
The tour must end in Vaughan, in the suburbs of Toronto, who had still not followed the questions of journalists.
