Appointed Minister of Health in the midst of a pandemic, two years after his return to the Salon bleu, Christian Dubé admitted on Sunday evening, to The true naturenot particularly liking politics.
“I am not a politician. I went there with a mission. Do I like it… I like having the chance to achieve it, but I can’t say that I like politics and I tell myself that it’s a chance that I don’t have the right to escape,” he said.
“I feel this pressure,” particularly from the opposition, added the Minister of Health.
Mr. Dubé also spoke about how he experienced, in his family cocoon, the pandemic and the health measures put in place by his government.
“I isolated myself a lot about how I felt. And maybe wrongly, but I wanted to show [à mon plus jeune] that I was strong in that, because the last thing he needed to feel was that I too found it difficult,” he confided, admitting that his party’s decisions had imposed to his children the pressure to be flawless in the eyes of others.
An accountant by training, Christian Dubé worked among others at Cascades, at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), as well as at Domtar alongside Pierre Fitzgibbon, who became a close friend over time. He also admitted while preparing dinner on Sunday evening that he had launched into politics on a whim, after a drunken discussion in the spa of this friend, who is notably Minister of the Economy, Innovation and Energy.
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