CBC hires ex-Bloc leader Duceppe
MONTREAL - Former Bloc Quebecois head Gilles Duceppe said he doesn't think there is anything controversial about an ex-soveregnist leader working at the state broadcaster.
Duceppe starts work as a columnist for the French CBC next week.
“Pierre Bourgault worked for years at Radio-Canada,” he said of the late sovereigntist politician who worked in the Party Quebecois in its infancy. A former PQ leader, Rene Levesque, as well as its current president, Raymond Archambault, were also on the French CBC, Duceppe added.
“(The CBC) also belongs to the Quebec society,” he said. “Quebec pays taxes.”
His weekly morning segment, called “La Performance de la Semaine” (The Week's Performance), debuts next Thursday on the show Premiere Chaine.
He said viewers shouldn’t expect him to argue about who is the best singer or politician. Duceppe said this topics will “make you think.”
Topics such as the current financial crisis in the United States and Europe, the development of Canada's Arctic or the health and education systems, he said.
“How many times do we hear that the school system isn't working,” he said, as an example. “However, every year my wife, who is a principal in a school in a disadvantaged neighbourhood, puts on an opera that her students created. It's incredible.”
Duceppe has always maintained that he doesn't have a career plan and he said that hasn't changed.
He added that he isn't particularly interested in hosting an entire show either, like Mario Dumont, the former leader of the Action Democratique du Quebec, who resigned in 2008.
Even if Duceppe is used to talking in front of the camera, the former sovereigntist leader isn't assuming he's going to be good on the radio. He said he's been on one side of the microphone and now as a columnist, “the people will judge.”
Watchdogs question Duceppe
MONTREAL - Former Bloc Quebecois head Gilles Duceppe said he doesn't think there is anything controversial about an ex-soveregnist leader working at the state broadcaster.
Duceppe starts work as a columnist for the French CBC next week.
“Pierre Bourgault worked for years at Radio-Canada,” he said of the late sovereigntist politician who worked in the Party Quebecois in its infancy. A former PQ leader, Rene Levesque, as well as its current president, Raymond Archambault, were also on the French CBC, Duceppe added.
“(The CBC) also belongs to the Quebec society,” he said. “Quebec pays taxes.”
His weekly morning segment, called “La Performance de la Semaine” (The Week's Performance), debuts next Thursday on the show Premiere Chaine.
He said viewers shouldn’t expect him to argue about who is the best singer or politician. Duceppe said this topics will “make you think.”
Topics such as the current financial crisis in the United States and Europe, the development of Canada's Arctic or the health and education systems, he said.
“How many times do we hear that the school system isn't working,” he said, as an example. “However, every year my wife, who is a principal in a school in a disadvantaged neighbourhood, puts on an opera that her students created. It's incredible.”
Duceppe has always maintained that he doesn't have a career plan and he said that hasn't changed.
He added that he isn't particularly interested in hosting an entire show either, like Mario Dumont, the former leader of the Action Democratique du Quebec, who resigned in 2008.
Even if Duceppe is used to talking in front of the camera, the former sovereigntist leader isn't assuming he's going to be good on the radio. He said he's been on one side of the microphone and now as a columnist, “the people will judge.”
Watchdogs question Duceppe
