MARRIAGE JULIE SNYDER AND PIERRE KARL PÉLADEAU

By Bernard Bujold (LeStudio1) -
It's next Saturday August 15, 2015 that will be celebrated by the Mayor of Quebec City, Régis Labeaume, marriage between Julie Snyder and Pierre Karl Péladeau. It was also another mayor, Nicolas Sarkozy (Neuilly sur Seine), who had celebrated the first marriage of PKP. 
We note two important missing guest at Saturday's party: Celine Dion, on the side of Julie and Brian Mulroney, on the side of PKP. Only one international star was announced, Michel Drucker. 
The temperature should be favorable to married with sunshine on the Old Quebec and 25 Celsius. 
Unfortunately, I will not be at the event, being held elsewhere...
Photo 1: Pierre Karl Peladeau and Julie;
Photo 2: Wedding Site Old Quebec;
Photo 3: Julie and Michel Drucker;
Photo 4: Julie and Céline Dion;
Photo 5: Brian Mulroney and Pierre Karl Péladeau;
Photo 6: Nicolas Sarkozy and Régis Labeaume;
Photo 7: Bernard Bujold playing golf;
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GILLES DUCEPPE IS BACK ...

By Bernard Bujold (LeStudio1) - 
The return of Gilles Duceppe in politics was coordinated by Bernard Landry who negotiated the return while Pierre Karl Péladeau accepted the proposed strategy including meeting Gilles Duceppe in person to accept and confirm the details. 
Gilles Duceppe will be the new co-War General in the campaign for Quebec sovereignty siding with Pierre Karl Péladeau. Duceppe will be in Ottawa and PKP in the National Assembly, so of course if each of the two win the election with their respective party. Observers say of them that they are the hopes of last resort in the Quebec revolution against Ottawa. 
The new Gilles Duceppe at press conference has not really changed from the old, except that he may look a little rejuvenated visually... Duceppe gives the look of a man about 60 years old while he will be 68 years on next July 22. Stephen Harper is 55 years old; Thomas Mulcair will be 61 years on October 24; and Justin Trudeau is 43 years old. 
But if the look and speech of Duceppe did not change, the political map may be greatly transformed for Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau, and of course for Stephen Harper who is favored. A three-horse race has now become a race of four! And worse for Thomas Mulcair, losing even just a dozen ridings in Quebec to the Bloc could mean forgetting a minority government to be a mere Opposition, or worse the Second Opposition behind Justin Trudeau. 
And of course this scenario assumes that Gilles Duceppe will not get good results in the field. To resume the sport comparison by Duceppe during his press conference: "... An election campaign is like a football game! Everything is possible..." 
Fall is going to be an exciting season to watch on the politics side! 
To be continued... 
Photos 1: Gilles Duceppe, Pierre Karl Péladeau and Bernard Landry;
Photo 2: Gilles Duceppe, Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair;
Photo 3: Gilles Duceppe and Mario Beaulieu;
Photo 4: Gilles Duceppe and his wife;
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PICNIC AT THE COTTAGE - MAY 2015

By Bernard Bujold (LeStudio1) -
When life is difficult and we want to forget the everyday obstacles and failures, nothing like a picnic at the cottage... 
As I often tell my friends: "I never let the bad times of life to spoil other beauties of life!" 
In other words, do not talk politics or about PKP to me anymore... 
Long live the cottage! Long live picnics! Long live the summer 2015! 
Photo 1: Bernard Bujold;
Photo 2, 3 and 4: Cottage at the lake;
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QUEBEC A COUNTRY...

By Bernard Bujold (LeStudio1)  
-William Johnson, renowned writer and journalist, published in The National Post on Saturday, May 16, 2015 a very precise analysis of the challenge for Pierre Karl Péladeau in achieving its proposed separation of Quebec from Canada. 
There are only two options to separate Quebec from Canada: political and legal negotiation or armed revolution (like in Cuba). 
Obviously, the second option will never be put forward by Quebecers... 
In the separation by negotiation, there are four stages from first the local referendum; compliance with laws in force in the current country of Canada; the agreement of the other provinces to amend the Constitution; and most difficult, from a geographical point of view, to accept that some regions (territories) of Quebec will not join the new country and will remain in Canada like First Nations people and their territories that occupy half the geographical area of ​​Quebec. 
The challenges for PKP are enormous and that's not counting the one he will face to survive politically in the National Assembly of Quebec... 
To be continued! 
Photo 1: Martine Ouelllet, Alexandre Cloutier and Pierre Karl Péladeau;
Photo 2: William Johnson and Pierre Karl Péladeau;
Photo 3 and 4: Pierre Karl Péladeau;
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LEADER OF LE PARTI QUÉBECOIS IN 2015 ...

By Bernard Bujold (LeStudio1) - 
Members of the Parti Québécois will elect their next leader from Wednesday, May 13, 2015 and normally we will know the result on Friday night May 15 at 9 pm. 
Personally, I am what could be called apolitical in the sense that I am not a member of any political party. I do not like the idea of ​​a party but I favor political people according to their personality. When I supported Brian Mulroney in 1984 in Ottawa, it was not for his political party but because of his personality and what I considered an exceptional dynamism. 
At the beginning of this PQ campaign, if I had been an active member of the party, my vote would have gone to Jean-François Lisée. He had the profile of a prime minister. 
Currently, I deeply wish that Alexander Cloutier wins the race. 
I get an average of one email a week since the announcement of the entry into politics of Pierre-Karl Péladeau, wondering why I am not supporting him since I was very close to his father for who I was Executive Assistant until the end of his life.  He even fell into a coma in front of me, on December 2, 1997, almost in my arms, on the floor of his office Quebecor... 
I loved the man who was Pierre Péladeau (the father) and we had a very profound loyalty towards each other. 
Pierre Péladeau died officially on December 24, 1997 and on January 5, 1998, Quebecor's new senior management immediately thanked me for my services with the clear and precise message that they did not want to see me around anywhere in the enterprise.
I was deeply sad by this... 
In addition, it was the Quebec ice storm... 
The darkness and the cold of the New Year; the death of my mentor; and becoming an unemployed! 
In the months after my dismissal from Quebecor, people that I knew closely, including a leader of a large Quebec company (from the Quebec Inc), told me that Jean Neveu the new CEO of Quebecor would have contacted them to denigrate me and to suggest not to hire me. 
I checked this by Jean Neveu and he said, smiling, that he had the right to express his opinion and if I was not happy, just to sue him... 
At the time, I did not want to spend money for lawyers in justice nor to pay to gather evidence because I thought it was better to look forward. But it was clear that others were investing efforts to monitor me (probably a private detective) because as soon as I went to a new potential employer interview, someone contacted them immediately. It was like if they were following me on track and that they were trying to prevent me from working! 
I finally got an inescapable proof once and it was well documented because I got a job... 
I got in early 2001 as a press attaché precisely with the government of Bernard Landry that I had known earlier when I was with Pierre Péladeau (the father). I had discreetly negotiated and when I started working, nobody really knew it. I started on a Monday morning (April 11, the date of birth of Pierre Péladeau...) but at 3 pm on the same day, the chief of staff invited me into her office saying she was sorry because she had just received a call from someone and if the Landry government kept me in the staff, it would do him trouble in the media ... 
The chief of staff told me that the order to fire me was coming from executives at Quebecor by means of a large PR agency in Montreal and, after bringing the matter to his attention, Bernard Landry said that he did not want to get involved... 
She had no choice to do otherwise! - she repeated to me! 
Later in time, early 2003, when I published my biography of Pierre Péladeau, my friend Michel Vastel told me that a senior officer at Quebecor asked him to try to get a copy before publication of the book I was writing about the father of PKP. Michel had refused the request by replying to the person asking that he was not playing this kind game, especially not with a former journalist like me, and worse, he knew me personally. 
In short, if I do not support PKP the son, it is because I have my personal reasons! 
The beauty of democracy is, however, that everyone is entitled to one vote. 
If you are not happy with the result, you have a choice: change of city, province or country; or accept the outcome and live with the choice of the majority. 
If ever Pierre Karl Péladeau became Premier of Quebec one day, I will have plenty of time to change territory but we are not yet at this result! 
To be continued ... and good luck Alexandre Cloutier! 
Photo 1 and 2: Pierre Péladeau and Bernard Bujold;
Photo 3: Pierre Karl Peladeau, Julie Snyder and Jean Neveu;
Photo 4: Alexandre Cloutier;
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