Antoine Robitaille

Noting that Eric Duhem was on the attack, Christine Frechette did not get the KO that she needed.

Antoine Robitaille saying, you know, a confused debate, no clear victor.

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guess it's difficult when there are five people debating to sort of stand out.

How dare you want that? How dare, they want to take my money, you know?

Antoine, take a deep breath.

Antoine Robitaille.

Rachel.

On what's this autonomous gesture by Christine Frechette?

It was, you know, Donald Trump broke up with us and is now furious that we're thinking of dating Europe.

And, you know, that sums it up, because it did really get under Trump's hide.

So with regard to Christine Fruchette and what she's talking about, it gets applauded, for example, by Antoine Robitaille, who's a colleague at the Journal de Montréal, but also a very openly sincere and devoted sovereignist.

It gains when Ottawa feels it has fewer reasons to defer to Washington, and it certainly gains when military-to-military contacts between Ottawa and Beijing, uh, resume as they did last week."

Um, Antoine Robitaille in the Journal de Montréal says Quebec Conservative leader Eric Duhaime has to stop dodging questions about party candidates.

Right.

Antoine Robitaille is saying there are some serious questions being asked about some Quebec Conservative, uh, candidates, and Eric Duhaime really so far has been replying to questions about them by saying, "I'm not going to let myself be distracted by this.

This is a diversion, uh, cooked up by the CAQ," and so on.

But he says, or, uh, Robitaille says that a party chief has the obligation to explain to voters why the party has welcomed into its ranks people who hold positions that are contrary to the broad outlines of party, uh, belief.

Okey-dokey.

Uh, Antoine Robitaille in the Journal gives a bad theater award to Charles Milliard.

For what?

Well, he, he talks about how there's a lot of theater in election campaigns, because an election campaign is like applying for a job.

Huh

... touched by tariffs.

But Charles Milliard takes the cake in Antoine Robitaille's view in the Journal de Montreal with his preemptive news conference ahead of that, uh, meeting that, uh, Christine Frechette called for the update.

She in- uh, invited all the party leaders to come in for an update on the trade, uh, situation.

And politicians keep telling us we are a mature, confident, and dignified country.

Antoine Robitaille in the Journal de Montréal thought there was something familiar about the PQs promised at an hour per day of phys ed to elementary and high school.

Yeah, it's very similar to something that PQ promised in 2018.

A little bit different.

Elvis Graton, you've got to look that up.

Antoine Robitaille in the Journal de Montréal, skeptical about election promises to reduce Quebec's bureaucracy.

Yeah, he says we've heard a couple of the parties promise big cuts to the bureaucracy.

He says, well, it's okay to do that.

We'll start off with the Journal de Montreal.

Trudy and Antoine Robitaille says a CAC event billed as a town hall meeting was actually something else.

And he says that we shouldn't be using town hall meetings to describe situations that are clearly managed politically.

He says, you know, town halls, as they were conceived in the past, were these events where people could go and speak their mind and collectively come up with solutions.

And an event that Christine Frechette appeared at in Longueuil on Sunday had been billed as a kind of town hall style event.

But in fact, according to Antoine Robitaille, that's not what it was.

What it was, was a marketing, political marketing exercise that was managed by her team.

He says that we've seen in the past the benefit to democracy of having town hall style meetings because they can lead to really effective communication between politicians who are being challenged by voters, but that's not what went on here.