During the election campaign, candidates are always looking for shocking phrases that will hold the attention of their voters. Some statements are significant in the evolution of a campaign, while others can be downright tasty. Here is a selection:
Campaign in Montreal
Yes, there is a mobility squad, but it is stuck in traffic.
– Denis Coderre, during the debate before the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal (October 18, 2021)
Montrealers are right to doubt: is Denis Coderre there for Montrealers? Or is he there for the promoters?
– Valérie Plante (November 3, 2021)
I have been in politics all my life. I’m not a guy who gets influenced.
– Denis Coderre, on the mandates he had in the private sector (November 3, 2021)
Take a shot after 8 o’clock at night, I don’t see the relevance.
– Denis Coderre, on alcohol in parks (June 1, 2021)
People could say that Balarama was ten or twenty years before his time. That would be a legitimate criticism.
– Balarama Holness, on his proposed city-state status for Montreal (October 22, 2021)
We feel she is passionate and it is very contagious. I want to say that his passion for the penis… Tennis, sorry.
– Lapsus by Valérie Plante who commented on Leylah Fernandez’s performance at the US Open tennis tournament. (September 10, 2021)
Campaign in Quebec
Basically, I know where you want to go. You want to destroy the project. […] But do you know what? It is so well done. We even have phases 1 a), phases 1 b), with one tunnel, two tunnels.
– Quebec 21 chief of staff, Richard Côté, in an emotional outing to defend the party’s light rail project. (November 3, 2021)
I know my city well, even though I got 4 out of 10 in the quiz.
– Marie-Josée Savard, after the debate on candidates for mayor of Quebec on Radio-Canada. (October 20, 2021)
We are here to win. At first, people didn’t believe us. There are people who thought that we had come to learn like the Russians in 1972.
– Bruno Marchand (November 5, 2021)
My name, it never came out at the Charbonneau commission.
– Marie-Josée Savard, in reaction to the disparaging remarks made by Jean-François Gosselin’s chief of staff, Richard Côté, against her. (November 3, 2021)
Mr. Marchand, this is a marketing product. Yesterday I made a joke with my colleagues. I told them: in my opinion, within 15 days, we are on the verge of seeing Bruno Marchand’s “bubble heads” in convenience stores.
– Quebec 21 chief of staff, Richard Côté, attacking mayoral candidate Bruno Marchand. (November 3, 2021)
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