Julie Couillard's book My Story will be published and in bookstores on Oct. 6, just before Canadians go to the polls on Oct. 14.
Having written about the Couillard-Bernier affair several times for the Canwest chain of papers and then watched with interest how each paper played the whole affair, I can tell you that there is substantial, often maniacal, interest in this sordid saga in various regions of Québec. There is moderate interest in Ontario. But I found that our papers in the West, after publishing one or two items when the revelations about her past first broke, got pretty bored with the whole thing. And their readers didn't seem to mind that it was time to move away from M. Couillard.
So I suspect that some of the things she has to say about Bernier, Harper, et al. in her book will be of great interest to the chattering classes in Ottawa and Quebec but not of much interest everywhere else.
So, if you are, in fact, a member of that very same chattering class, you will definitely want to check out today's edition of La Presse for Denis Lessard's summary of the first chapters that have been leaked.
I am told that other papers, including some of our ours, have been given advance copies of the book and are ready to flood the weekend editions with more juicy details.
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“I am told that other papers, including some of our ours, have been given advance copies of the book and are ready to flood the weekend editions with more juicy details.”
Proving that some boobs are more interested in exposed boobs than in covering substance …
Covering? No, nay, never!
Markets plunging? Boring!
Plunging necklines? Now that's relevant!
Hmmm….Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
This woman is so clearly upset having been in a high profile relationship, with a high profile MP in Quebec, who held a high profile position in the Federal Cabinet which resulted in a high profile break-up when other high-profile (but previously secret) relationships came to light. Then she claims that it “ruined her life”.
What the heck did she expect? That she'd quietly escape the media's attention? That her sordid past wouldn't come back to haunt her?
This woman was obviously delusional from the very beginning. And now, after all is said and done, she's going to take revenge on Mr. Bernier with this supposed “tell-all” rag. And there are people out there who will choose to believe that she is writing nothing but the god-honest truth about her victimization at the hands of Mr. Bernier and the Conservative Party of Canada and by extension, Mr. Harper himself (even though it was Mr. Harper who insisted that their private life should remain just that: Private).
No, I am suspicious of every syllable of every word that spills off her tongue. This “book” is nothing more than cheap opportunism by a classless woman.