Quebec music festival cancelled after band makes censorship accusation

A music festival in northwestern Quebec has been cancelled after a local band accused organizers of rescinding an invitation to perform because of its criticism of an arsenic-emitting copper smelter in the region.

Métal Marquis is asupplier of the Horne Smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Que., located about 60 kilometres south of La Sarre, which in recent years has come under intense media and political scrutiny for arsenic emissions that Quebec had allowed to be 33 times the provincewide standard. In 2022 the province said it would permit the smelter to emit arsenic levels five times the norm.

The following Monday, Alienfest organizers cancelled the festival scheduled for early June. “Conflicts of interest between our sponsors and participants force us to make this decision,” the festival stated in a news release first obtained by Radio-Canada. “As a sponsor, our role is not to define or limit the artistic scope of the festivals we support,” Métal Marquis president Patrick Perreault said in the statement.

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