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Kate 22:39 on 2021-06-24 Permalink Reply  

• david730 03:24 on 2021-06-25 Permalink

  I’m drunk, tired, and very happy right now, so maybe this is a product of that, but Bouchard . . . he’s been sort of rehabilitated from his 1990s villain status, hasn’t he?

  We know that he’s pretty much always lived in Montreal, and we know that he has suffered some fairly horrific personal reversals. We know too that he did a lot of good when he was the prime minister, even if he wasn’t exactly a friend of the anglophone community (and that I personally was raised to consider him something equivalent to how drug addicts in the Philippines think of their president Duterte).

  But I’ve met Bouchard and people around him quite a few times over the past couple decades and, as villainous as he seemed, guy is a decent chap in the end.

• Raymond Lutz 08:01 on 2021-06-25 Permalink

  Lucien Bouchard était un promoteur de la privatisation des services d’aqueduc (lors de son mandant) et plus récemment un défenseur de l’industrie pétrolière durant l’épisode du “fracking” québécois. Un vrai gentleman en effet.

• Kate 09:24 on 2021-06-25 Permalink

  Is it just me, or did Plante make this gesture at least partly to placate the language nationalists snapping at her heels?

• DavidH 10:12 on 2021-06-25 Permalink

  @Kate, that’s exactly what I thought. If Hadrien Parizeau had not sided with Coderre, PM would not have felt the need to dig up Bouchard.

• david287 10:55 on 2021-06-25 Permalink

  She’s done quite a few things in this vein, all the french language this and that and, of course, the Landry station thing.