The “Robin of banks” is no more. Former politician, journalist and businessman Yves Michaud died Tuesday evening.
The former Liberal MP, convinced by René Lévesque to join the Parti Québécois in 1970, was 94 years old. He is particularly known for having founded the Shareholder Education and Defense Movement in 1995.
“There was this life filled with a thirst for justice for the language, for the country and for investors,” said PQ MP Pascal Bérubé on Wednesday, a few moments after learning it.
It was he who, in 2020, presented a motion – rejected by the Coalition Avenir Québec – in order to erase a reprimand addressed to him by the National Assembly for having made anti-Semitic comments. Mr. Michaud argued that these words had been attributed to him without foundation.
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