Posted at 1:00 p.m.
Good start
It looks good to me, my kiki. I believe it is wise and healthy to begin retirement with a lazyboy assumed. I hope that this new job will inject the right dose to satisfy all your needs and, above all, to avoid a relapse like the recent ones of certain junkie politicians, addicted to notoriety and power. Waiting to read your opinions and comments on hot topics.
Gaëtan Ste-Marie, Sainte-Helene-de-Chester
eye-catching
Very pleasant, your first collaboration! Catchy remarks, a sympathetic self-mockery and a well-felt pleasure to tell you.
Lucile Lavoie
He speaks to us
What a pleasure this morning to read M. Labeaume! I love his writing style and his humor. We can almost hear him talking to us. What a beautiful gift you are giving us! With this intelligence and the easy verb, it would have been a shame to keep it just for him. You made my day.
Sonia Larin
Far from the language of wood
Very happy to read you this morning, Mr. Labeaume. The colorful character that you are has revived the city of Quebec, which was bogged down towards a city that looked like a large CHSLD (except for Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, for which I cannot forgive you for having extinguished the flame of our National Holiday). I missed your petulance, your vision, your provocative words, but always within limits of respect. It will be my pleasure to read you and you will probably still often be a starting point for our heated discussions with family or friends. Thank you for remaining as you are and for avoiding the wooden language of the politicians of this world.
Sonia Plante
humor and moods
I think “my” ex-mayor has style and a sense of humor. Good start ! However, the controversy will surely arise in the next detours. We’ll see if the “big beacon” can show objectivity or if only his mood at the time will prevail.
Rejean Guay
A generation in rehab
Decontamination, dependency, detoxification, curettage: associating these words with retirement makes me feel so good! That’s exactly what I’m experiencing. And I wonder if that’s not what our whole generation is going through. The baby boomers who had to live in the leisure society…and who ran so much in their professional lives to catch that dream of an ideal and just world…without finding anything but a world slipping through our hands…just like our body. Thank you for this column, with a good coffee, it makes my morning!
Pierrette Gingras
Politics differently
We will never be able to get the politician out of this columnist. It is not the chronicle that he comes to do at The Press, but politics. Watch him come with his fight against the third link in Quebec.
Alain Hebert
The family friend
So happy, Mr. Labeaume, to read you! I was afraid not to hear you anymore. You know, over the years, you have become the patriarch, the precious friend of our great family of admirers. Yes, admirers of your outspokenness and jovial charisma. I will follow your chronicles faithfully. And I would like to thank Mr.me Grammond for this brilliant idea to encourage you to join The Press. Welcome, Mr. Regis!
Marjolaine Trottier
The Labeaume way
Even though I am Franco-Ontarian, I have often had the opportunity to hear you as mayor of Quebec, Mr. Labeaume. Having been a municipal councilor myself for about ten years, I have always loved your way of doing politics. So I’m sure I’ll enjoy reading your papers in The Press.
Jean Guy Giroux
I too come out of my lethargy
After reading the former mayor’s first column, I’m also going to shake my fleas and maybe write a few articles for my old professional newspaper for which I loved doing a monthly column. Being retired myself, it’s time to get out of my lethargy induced by two masked years. At work, great beacon (as I have often heard). Thanks, Regis.
Robert Demers
Welcome to the club
Welcome to the pensioners’ club where laziness becomes divine, sometimes interrupted by a sudden attack of remorse from another life. We calm down and we can’t wait to read you.
Lise St-Laurent
Don’t change your style
I hope with all my heart, dear Régis (pardon me for addressing you by your first name, given my age much higher than yours, I allow myself), great self-proclaimed beacon, that you will give us some well-felt texts, you who do not never had your tongue in your pocket. I loved to hear you proclaim loud and clear your right to independence of thought, I expect to find your incisive and often humorous verb in your texts! Do me a favor, don’t change your style, I loved hearing from you, I look forward to reading you.
Jocelyne Kucharski, Bromont