André Pratte
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The Honourable André Pratte |
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| Senator for Quebec | |
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Assumed office March 18, 2016 |
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| Nominated by | Justin Trudeau |
| Appointed by | David Johnston |
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| Born |
May 12, 1957 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Non-affiliated |
| Occupation | Editor-in-chief |
| Profession | journalist |
André Pratte (born May 12, 1957 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist and politician. A longtime editor-in-chief of the large-circulation Montreal newspaper La Presse, Pratte was appointed to the Senate of Canada in March 2016. He is a notable voice of Canadian federalism in Quebec.
During the 1980s, Pratte worked at radio station CKAC in Montreal. He moved from radio to the written press in 1986. Succeeding Alain Dubuc, he became editor-in-chief of La Presse in 2001, defending the federalist and fiscally centre-right political stance of the paper. In 2005, Pratte was among the group who signed the manifesto "For a clear-eyed vision of Quebec", better known by the French title "Pour un Québec lucide" and critical of the social democratic 'Quebec Model'. Criticized by some sovereigntists, he has defended his neutrality and has claimed in the book Aux pays des merveilles to be a soft-nationalist and to have a soft-sovereigntist past (with claims of 'Yes' votes in both the 1980 and the 1995 Quebec referendums).
He published a number of books at VLB éditeur. The first, Le Syndrome de Pinocchio, discussed a lying "syndrome" in politicians and was the subject of a censure motion from the National Assembly of Quebec in 1997. He also published a biography of the future Premier of Quebec, Jean Charest, under the title L'Énigme Charest in 1997, drawing a paradoxical portrait of the man. He redirected his criticism upon his own journalistic profession in Les Oiseaux de malheur in 2000.
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