Etiket: Lisée
Towards a formal complaint? Mulcair attacks, Lisée responds
“I feel like things are going to get messy this morning, I ask you for a little discipline.” It is with these words that Richard Martineau began his meeting of…
“Through the mouth of my pencils”: Jean-François Lisée, man of convictions
Jean-François Lisée readily admits to having made some mistakes when he was a politician, the star columnist of Duty does not feel the slightest regret when thinking back to the…
[Opinion] The imagination of Jean-François Lisée | The duty
In his March 4 column, Jean-François Lisée suggests that I set a nasty trap for other political parties when I tabled a motion to mark International Women’s Day. I am…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Canadian history
We were flabbergasted. The sentence uttered by the Premier of a friendly province, like a poisoned arrow, circled our heads several times. The conversation over, Lucien Bouchard told us, to…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] artificial influence
The great conversation has begun between humans and their masters of tomorrow: artificial intelligences. It starts badly. It only took a few days to see that the ChatGPT software could…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Only anecdotes
In the locker room by the swimming pool, the clerk of a large local pharmacy shouts at me. “I have to tell you. At work, everyone speaks English to each…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Solidarity spleen
Next Saturday, solidarity activists will be reunited for the first time since the October 3 election. I recommend a theme song to them to open their discussions: sad companion, of…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Linguistic crystal ball
You may have noticed that there are two schools of thought about the future of French in Quebec. The one that includes demographer Marc Termotte, author Frédéric Lacroix, mathematician Charles…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Say “basta!” in Roxham
Let’s get things straight. If you or I were Haitians, Cubans, Guatemalans, among many others, we would move heaven and earth, sell all our possessions, go into debt up to…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] McKinsey, the cabinet of toxic capitalism
We come out frankly stunned from reading When McKinsey Comes to Town (When McKinsey comes to town), the recent book by two journalists from New York Times, Walt Bogdanich and…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Take Taiwan from the inside
The best way to win a war, ultimately, is to make sure the enemy generals are working for you. It is no other way that Mao Zedong succeeded in taking,…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] The Quebec plan to eradicate English
This column is the translation of a (sarcastic) text that I committed in English, rejected by the Globe and Mailthe National Post, Maclean’s and the CBC’s Opinion pages before being…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] A la carte policy
The problem with polls or intention to vote polls is that you have to choose. But this choice only imperfectly reflects the complexity of our opinions on issues as well…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] The crimes of Benedict XVI
The thing happened in Cameroon, a half-Catholic country, in 2009. It was Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to Africa, a continent where, for 10 years, HIV-AIDS had been the leading…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Plea for respectful robustness
I’ve read a lot of political platforms in my life and helped write a few of them. However, I had never found a sentence like this: “We ‘agree to disagree’:…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] In the name of men and women
I dare to come out of the closet. I am a man. There, it is said. Come what may. I am aware that my gender is not valued these days.…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] The first plot
My son has a theory. He identified a scourge: conspiracy. He found a culprit: Santa Claus. Or rather culprits: all the adults in the world, who pretend that Santa Claus…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] The Golden Age of Quebec Documentaries
I am formal. Never have we produced so many quality documentaries as in the past three years. The best of them have absolutely nothing to envy, in terms of dramatic…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] Trudeau, the jealous
This is the story of a boy pampered, in the cradle, by the Canadian fairy. His father ? The founder of modern Canada. The name that appears on his baptismal…
[Chronique de Jean-François Lisée] First French homework
As luck would have it, I recently sat at the same table as the new Minister for the French Language, Jean-François Roberge. That was before he said “all the lights…