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Kate 15:03 on 2024-05-03 Permalink Reply  

• Uatu 00:26 on 2024-05-04 Permalink

  I think old man Legault wants the protests to stop because they’re essentially on his office’s front lawn lol

• Ian 07:23 on 2024-05-04 Permalink

  “Sticking his neck where it doesn’t belong” is a mixed metaphor – sticking his neck out, and sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong …
  But otherwise yes, pithy and to the point.

• mare 05:29 on 2024-05-05 Permalink

  Why does Legault actually have an office on Sherbrooke? It’s in a non-descript office tower so it’s not a heritage building and tradition. And he’s not the minister for Montreal afaik.

  I presume it’s also not to keep in contact with his constituents in Assomption, so he probably has an office there too. So what does he do here, and how often will he actually be here and not in Quebec City? Or do politicians only stay in Quebec when parliament is in session?

  (I obviously know nothing about the practical stuff of Quebec politics.)

• Kate 08:52 on 2024-05-05 Permalink

  And why does he choose to have an office facing a big anglo institution?

  Wish I had an answer. I’ve heard it claimed as a tradition that the premier always had a Montreal office, but that was in the Hydro‑Quebec building on René‑Lévesque. Even the terse Wikipedia entry about that building says it houses the premier’s Montreal offices.

  I don’t actually know how many premiers used that HQ office, and who broke with the tradition or why. I’ll look out for explanations for this.

• DeWolf 21:13 on 2024-05-05 Permalink

  I seem to recall Charest had exactly the same office, or at least one in the same building. I assume it’s not his personal office but rather the office of the premier, whoever happens to be in power.

• Kate 22:20 on 2024-05-05 Permalink

  Charest was in the HQ building, you mean?

  I figured something like that – a presidential suite, more or less. But some premier must have discontinued the tradition.