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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
I have done my share of pictures on Julie Couillard and Maxime Bernier. When I think about the scandal, what becomes clear to me is that the sole responsibility for what happened rests on the shoulders of Bernier. No matter how much he tries to weasel out of it, this reality remains. To begin with, let's briefly look at Madame Couillard's life story. She grew up in a very tough environment where her...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Maxime Bernier says he is anxious to clear the air and turn the page on his dramatic resignation as foreign affairs minister. But Bernier's first public appearance since stepping down May 26 – he spoke to supporters Wednesday night in his home riding of Beauce, Que. – managed to raise more questions than it answered.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
The sight of Julie Couillard's decolletage at Rideau Hall last summer was met with shock and awe, and eventually followed by her then-boyfriend Maxime Bernier's ouster from cabinet.
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
The Globe and Mail is suitably (and appropriately) unimpressed : Still waiting for answers June 26, 2008 At long last, Maxime Bernier has deigned to speak about the scandal that ended his cabinet career. But only his most ardent supporters - the ones chanting his name last night as he addressed them in his home riding - could seriously believe that the former foreign affairs minister has laid the matter...
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Stageleft:. Life on the left side (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Simply not believable.
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Mack the Hackistan (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
CP reported a few days back that McClelland and Stewart will publish Julie Couillard's memoir. Story here Total waste of ink and paper. This memoir can be written in exactly eight words. "I fucked Maxime Bernier and a few bikers." End of memoir.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
With his first public statement in over a month, Maxime Bernier yesterday denied his ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard ever told him about her past and criminal associations.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shuffled a weak Conservative bench to plug an embarrassing hole by formally confirming David Emerson as foreign affairs minister yesterday. He replaces the hapless Maxime Bernier, who resigned last month after his ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard revealed he left classified documents at her home.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Just as Stephen Harper's last cabinet shuffle was largely concerned with accommodating the demotion of Gordon O'Connor, yesterday's was narrowly in response to the departure of Maxime Bernier. That Mr. Harper's ambitions were so limited is a good thing. As it stands, there have now been three cabinet shuffles in the past 18 months. It is hard to see how a major overhaul would have benefited the administration...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Maxime Bernier was never cut out for monastic life.He tried it, briefly, in the days after Julie Couillard's career-limiting (for both of them) prime-time TV interview last month. The solitary hours spent ''without BlackBerry, without cellphone, without television, neither newspapers nor radio'' at the Abbaye Saint-Benoit-du-Lac, the Quebec Benedictine monastery famous for its cheese, may have helped...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
In his first substantive comments since being forced out of the federal cabinet in scandal a month ago, Maxime Bernier insisted last night that he did not know of ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard's past biker ties.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier says he learned of ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard's past ties to organized crime only after they had stopped seeing each other.
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
On the day that Maxime Bernier's replacement is to be announced by the PM and also the day that Bernier is to "answer questions" without actually taking any questions on the matter of his relationship with Julie Couillard, here's Le Devoir celebrating Maxime by revealing the tale of how the infamous Jos Louis' event nearly didn't happen in Afghanistan. It's a cliffhanger, yes, the cakes nearly didn't...
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David Akin's On the Hill (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
OK, reading what I already wrote, OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will appoint "new members of the Ministerial team" Wednesday morning, in a widely expected fine-tuning of his cabinet triggered by the resignation last month of former Foreign Affairs minister Maxime Bernier. The new ministers will be sworn in at Rideau Hall, the official residence of the Governor General, at 11 a.m. Christian...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
When it comes to security issues, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade hasn't come out looking very good these days.The top boss, Maxime Bernier, lost his cabinet job after a classified briefing ended up at the home of his ex-girlfriend, a serial dater of criminals.
