“It’s as if someone had emptied the contents of a garbage truck in my garden,” wrote political scientist Alain Noël after reading Brian Lee Crowley’s controversial essay, Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values. If they read the book, most Quebeckers would certainly feel the same way. In fact, considering how sensitive people in my province are to anything critical said about them in English…
André Pratte
André Pratte is editorial page editor at La Presse. He has written several books on politics and the media and received the Canadian Journalism Award for Editorial Writing in 2007 and 2008.