La Presse Upgrades Stephane Dion from A Rat To A Beaver
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Does this mean the La Presse actually likes him now?
It's a well known fact that Stéphane Dion is not exactly the most popular politician in Quebec.
He was the so-called "arch-federalist" that all sovereigntists and nationalists loved to hate and whom most francophone federalists were unwilling to defend. He was the father of the Clarity Act that even Paul Martin dared not support. Because of his mousy face, La Presse cartoonist Serge Chapleau used to represent him as a rat, with small pointed ears, its mustachioed muzzle contracted in an arrogant sneer, and the tail emerging from beneath his suit, in any cartoon run by La Presse.
Similar to this cartoon.
After Dion's victory on Saturday, he has been upgraded by Chapleau to a beaver.
If you can't read french, the two beavers are saying "Who's the new one?".
Note: Serge Chapleau never intended to paint Dion as a dirty rat. When he first looked at Dion he thought his head "resembled a mouse". I remember that my first drawing was related to his first victory, and I drew him with his nose in the air with an incredible self importance. Of course, those who hated him concluded that I saw him as a dirty rat, but I never perceived him as such".
It's a well known fact that Stéphane Dion is not exactly the most popular politician in Quebec.
He was the so-called "arch-federalist" that all sovereigntists and nationalists loved to hate and whom most francophone federalists were unwilling to defend. He was the father of the Clarity Act that even Paul Martin dared not support. Because of his mousy face, La Presse cartoonist Serge Chapleau used to represent him as a rat, with small pointed ears, its mustachioed muzzle contracted in an arrogant sneer, and the tail emerging from beneath his suit, in any cartoon run by La Presse.
Similar to this cartoon.
After Dion's victory on Saturday, he has been upgraded by Chapleau to a beaver.
If you can't read french, the two beavers are saying "Who's the new one?".
Note: Serge Chapleau never intended to paint Dion as a dirty rat. When he first looked at Dion he thought his head "resembled a mouse". I remember that my first drawing was related to his first victory, and I drew him with his nose in the air with an incredible self importance. Of course, those who hated him concluded that I saw him as a dirty rat, but I never perceived him as such".
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