Quebecor Inc.

[laughs]

However, I've made some friends along the way, and the HR manager there actually wound up, uh, working at Sun Media, um, sort of the parent company being Quebecor Media, [lips smack] and I went and worked there for four years, who also then started offshoring their work.

[laughs]

So I had to get out of that.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and I'm like, "Hey, I'm going to get a coffee.

Would you like one?" And that person was, like, doing that same thing that I did in that Quebecor interview-

Mm

So, if I'm being honest, I'm not a huge fan of Bell or BCE.

If you take a step back, this is an oligopolistic industry within Canada, meaning you've got Bell, Rogers, Telus, Quebecor as your sort of major competitors.

If they would compete on the quality of their networks and the service they provide… then that would allow pricing power for each of them.

The challenge here, you know, you had Vince Valentini on earlier with your colleague Roger, and Vince I've known for years, he's a great analyst.

The candidate was Pierre-Carl Pelletier.

He was the CEO of Quebecor, owner of Sun Newspapers at one time, a right-winger by all accounts, very anti-union, and this was a allegedly the Social Democratic Party, the PQ, calling this guy a star.

And so the backlash from Social Democrats and the labor movement against the PQ, against Merwa, was harsh.

And she lost the election.

Rogers has the sports franchise.

Quebecor has done, I mean, it just has the growth because it is It was coming in as sort of the fourth player.

And TELUS, I mean, it's in the process of getting rid of those other bets that didn't pay off.

Yeah, I think it remains to be seen, actually.

So yeah, this seems like a pretty good idea overall.

The big three carriers and Quebecor have all expressed support for the project.

But I also think what's really interesting is the question of how we can have a sovereign internet when so many of our workers are currently outsourced to other countries.

So that's something that is going to have to be addressed with this as well.

Véronique Dubois, Louis-Philippe Neveu, le grand patron, Pierre Karl Péladeau, qui ont été très intelligents, méticuleux dans leurs négociations.

Ça aurait été facile, les gars, que Québecor, TVA, signent un chèque en blanc, puis ok, on les veut les droits, mais ce n'est pas à n'importe quel prix, puis pas n'importe de quelle façon.

C'est pour ça que ça a duré très longtemps.

La bonne nouvelle, leur patience, leur grand sens de la responsabilité a fait en sorte que là, le contrat est signé, les emplois sont sauvés.

Well, here's the thing, is that we don't know because the numbers had already been baked in.

Like, so the Léger poll that was published on Tuesday by Québecor had the lowest share of support for sovereignty in quite a while.

It was 27%.

When you see that number that begins with a two, usually it's an outlier, but it has been the trend in recent months with sovereignty, especially since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

He would also have two more of those by 1990.

Uh, he joined Quebecor as director general of media distribution, and later create a weekly French language wrestling column titled One, Two, Three.

He stayed connected to the business through Jacques Rougeau Jr.'s promotion, and in 2000, he founded the Foundation de Lutte Quebecoise in Montreal.

My French is terrible.

But for Quebec...

Of course, Quebecor owns TVA Spore.

And TVA Spore is going to, in terms of this sub-license, broadcast up to 350 regular season NHL games, 32 Canadians regular season games, and 12 of the 15 Stanley Cup playoff series, including all...

Montreal Canadiens playoff games.