Michel David has been a Québécois

French-speaking Quebecer

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 journalist since 1978, and is currently a columnist for the Montreal

Montreal

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 newspaper Le Devoir

Le Devoir

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David was parliamentary correspondent at the National Assembly of Quebec

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 for Quebec City

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's Le Soleil

Le Soleil

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from 1980 to 1991 and became President of the press gallery

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 at the end of the 1980s. From 1994 to 2001, he was a regular contributor to the English-language Montreal paper The Gazette

The Gazette (Montreal)

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. Now a columnist for the newspaper Le Devoir, he contributes each year to its publication of a bulletin (school report), giving grades to prominent Members of the National Assembly for their work during the year. His columns tend to show subtle humour and slight cynicism.

After the 2001 resignation of Lucien Bouchard

Lucien Bouchard

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 he published, with Quebec City cartoonist André-Philippe Côté, Les années Bouchard, a book on the former Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

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 Premier of Quebec. The book compiled political cartoons of Bouchard drawn by Côté; David provided commentaries and Bouchard, himself, the foreword

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