- A such messenger of formerly, Serge Bourrassa-Lacombe traverses Canada armed with his only cross and of its address Internet, which it liberally distributes to whoever wishes to discover the not very ordinary reasons for his pilgrimage…
- BY JEAN-MARC BEAUSOLEIL
- Serge Bourassa-Lacombe undertook a walk of protest everywhere in Canada to denounce the abuses of power of the psychiatric institutions. He protests against violences which he underwent at the University hospital of Sherbrooke (renamed University centre of health of Estrie), to which he brought continuations. The direction of this establishment refuses to comment on the business before the delivery of the sentence. DRESSED of red, a bag with the back and a cross on the shoulder, Mr. Serge Bourassa- Lacombe, party of Lennoxville, already arrived at Toronto. Its goal: to reach the Pacific Ocean.
- Mr Bourrassa-Lacombe, why did you undertake a walk towards the Pacific Ocean?
According to you, why did one inflict you such a treatment?
I walk so that the people
who suffer from psychiatric problems find their dignity. I would
like that one forms a board of inquiry on the abuses made in the
institutions intended to look after these people.
You as being one of the
victims of these injustices, isn't this presents themselves?
Exactly. On February 11,
1995, I was interned in the psychiatric wing of the University
hospital of Sherbrooke. There, without ordinance of the court
and my assent, one locked up me in a room as narrow as a cage,
then I was bound and doped. I remained there during 57 days. I
slept from 12 to 14 hours of at a stretch. Waked up, I was
shaken spasms and I felt too weak to hold me upright. Once
released, it took me three years of steps to obtain, thanks to
the Commission of the social affairs, the list of the products
that me had been managed: I received six tranquillizing
different at the same time. There was what to kill a horse! I
must be really solid to have survived all that!
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And it is
only at the end of 57 days that you recovered freedom?
- Yes. Through protests, J obtained that one ceases stuffing me drugs, and I could take again my spirits. On April 11, one granted one day of bail to me. The following day, I returned one hour before the hour envisaged, history of narguer the personnel of the center. Lastly, since I was not violent and that I helped the other patients to cure thanks to the capacity of the prayer, the «medical Mafia» gave me to the street. In parallel, the doctors hastened to write a letter with the ministry for the Public safety of Quebec, explaining that I refused all. treatment and which I was in freedom, paranoiac and dangerous. One period ago when the police officers of all Quebec sought me.
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«MY WRESTLING AGAINST THE MEDICAL MAFIA»
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In spite of its many meets and the
support which HE receives
from the population, Serge suffers sometimes from loneliness.
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The walker (Serge Bourassa-Lacombe),
during a few moments of rest
well deserved before taking again the road.
58 Last hour September 4, 1999
Serge JOSEPH ADRIEN Bourassa-Lacombe
PROVIDED WITH HIS Pilgrim's staff
AND
HIS BACKPACK OF 36,36 KILOS (80 POUNDS)
BEFORE THE PARLIAMENT IN OTTAWA
IN THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
IN CANADA - NORTH AMERICA.
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What did you make?
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I left on the inch to the United States. I
traversed thus more than 40.000 kilometers with
a pup for any companion. I even went to the
Olympic Games of Atlanta. How I am DRESSED in
coloured an enough way, of the journalists
noticed me, and a photograph of me made the
round the world tour!
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You returned to Quebec under a new identity?
- I simply added the name of my mother, Bourassa, with that of my father. That enabled me to return at home being required that justice be made. I spent my first night to Quebec, on January 4, 1997, in the town of Alma.
- I chose it because she says “city of hospitality”. In the Reception centre for itinerants where I presented myself, the welfare worker said to me without care that one could not receive me, because I was not an itinerant of Alma! I protested!
- What did it then arrive to you?
- I spent the night in prison! The authorities still wanted to make me take drugs. That made 677 days that I had taken neither pill nor injection of some product that it either, and I functioned without problem. Why did the State absolutely make a point of doping me? So that I cease protesting? It is useless: I will never stop! Fortunately, me was listened to and one gave me nothing this time. But one put to me all the same in observation during 27jours.
- At did your exit, you engage of the legal proceedings against the University hospital of Sherbrooke?
- Exactly. It took me work hours and of research, but I never discouraged myself. As I was injured in my rights, I want to be compensated. But, above all, I want that the truth bursts at the great day so that such dramas are avoided in the future.
- Will you to really return you to the Pacific Ocean?
- I will make it because God asked it to me. It insufflates me its force. My Creator speaks to me.
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- «They HAD GIVEN TO me
- enough tranquillizERS
- to kill A
- horse!»
- Do you walk of day or night?
- The day only. The night, I sleep where I can. As I carry a wood cross, a rucksack of 70 books, as well as a hat and a cape reds, people notice me. I explain the goal of my pilgrimage to them. Often, they make me gifts. I also stop in all the police stations which are on my way and I ask the police officers to listen myself. I give to them of the business cards on which are my name and addresses my Internet Website (bourassa-lacombe.org). I have 8.000 of them that I intend to sow thus on my road. When the hunger tortures me, I stop in a restaurant and I ask for the alms of a meal.
- According to will your forecasts, when reach you to it BRITISH-Colombia?
- I do not know. I needed one month and half to return to me of Lennoxville to Toronto. I course on average 20 kilometers per day. It is little, but I have difficulty in make more with my burden.
- Do you have an idea of what you will do after your bathe in the Pacific?
- I have a vision: I see myself traversing Americas in A Blue Bird Coach Motor Home IN RED COLOUR, provided with the conditioned air. The force of God is with me. DH
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- Magazine Last hour Inc.
- Att.: Jean Marc Beausoleil
- 2020, rue Université, office 2000,
- Montreal (Quebec) H3 has 2A5
- Serge Bourssa-Lacombe'S Fondation
- www.bourassa-lacombe.org
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- 1645, rue King west, continuation 188
- Sherbrooke (Quebec) J1J 2C7
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Last hour September 4, 1999 59
Sudbury, on September 17, 1999, 11:27
The present one is for you thanks Mr Beausoleil as well as the Team for your Magazine to have enabled me to make the turn of Quebec and that even if I were apart from my province is in Ontario. I thank you for having well target my crusade is: determination of my fight against the medical Mafia.
I am convinced that a great number of your readers on the occasion to see me passing in their vicinity or to have been likely to hear of this combat has to finish between David and Goliath. I am happy of knowing that via your intervention which people whom I had the chance to meet since four years and half already, have also the chance to have my news.
On the other hand, I have note that some errors succeeded all the same has to slip involuntarily into the text. I admit having been to interview by telephone and I know Mr Beausoleil that you immediately admitted carrying it my legal steps. In order to prevent any damage here what your readers would have of the lira: I am remainder at the hospital during 57 days. I slept 14 and 17:02
hours of at a stretch. I received five different drugs at the same time. I bore the same name as a serial rapist, to pose a diagnosis of manic-depressive, paranoid schizophrenic potentially dangerous. In parallel, the doctors are hasten to telephone the ministry for the Public safety of Quebec. I left has bicycle in the United States. I have master key my first night in Quebec has High Bank in direction of Aguanish to pass Christmas with my friends. Then on January 4, 1997, I am to find has Alma “city of hospitality”. I have master key part of the night in the search of a good Samaritan in order not to freeze outside. Without successes has four hour of the morning, I have request the heat of the police station. They were to release me has seven hours, the Safety of Quebec my rather dealt with to take me along to the prison of Chicoutimi for a possible transfer towards Montreal in a cause of criminal harassing which I did not have made. One succeeded all the same has keeps me under observation during 26 days of which 8 days at the institute Philip Pinel of Montreal bus of the doctors are perjuries to be done.
Mr Beausoleil, I still thank you for your article and time that you put at it. I now announce a scoop to you, my doctor (JESUS CHRIST) asks me to stop my walk has Sudbury for the winter in order to return to Quebec for the deposit of my civil continuation against the university hospital of sherbrooke (chus) on the role of the procedures before THE SUPERIOR COURT OF QUEBEC. I will thus take again my walk in the year 2000 with a judgement of court to the hand. I will communicate with you my return to Quebec.
