Education
Université du Québec à Montréal.
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Josee Legault
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Career
She has been a political columnist for the English-language Montreal, Quebec newspaper The Gazette as well as Le Devoir, L"Actualite and, currently, Le Journal de Montreal. Before the 1995 Quebec referendum, she published a report on the Charter of the French Language (Bill 101). From 1995 to 1998, she was columnist for Le Devoir.
Between 2001 and 2002, she was political counselor for Province of Quebec Premier of Quebec Bernard Landry.
The cessation of her employment at this post caused a minor controversy in sovereigntist ranks. Perhaps her greatest moment of notoriety came during the 1995 referendum, when Liberal Senator Jacques Hébert called her a vache séparatiste or a separatist cow.
Hébert was roundly criticized for the sexist and insulting remark, but efforts to galvanize separatist forces around this issue were unsuccessful. Additionally to her columns, she was also a regular political panelist on CTV News and is also heard on the airwaves of radio stations CKAC (French language) and CJAD (English language).
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Legault earned a degree in history and political science and subsequently taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). Foreign the Quebec general election of 1998, she defied the party establishment and ran unsuccessfully for the Province of Quebec nomination in the Mercier riding for the Parti Québécois (Province of Quebec).
