Liberal candidate Christian Feuillette ran a tight race against Thierry St-Cyr

What happens often during a very tight race is that it takes just a little to tip the scales from one side to the other; this is probably the reason why one of the Liberal Party organisers was frustrated during election night. When the Le Magazine journalist showed up Monday night at about 9:00 pm, he wasn’t allowed in. Robert Bousquet said to him that the votes had not been finalised so he could not let another journalist enter the office. He denounced the district’s weekly newspapers saying that they did not publish all of the communiqués coming from the Liberal Party of Canada candidate Christian P. Feuillette. He said that Le Magazine harmed his campaign by not publishing an article in English and that later the newspaper’s management neglected to apologise for this omission.

At 9:30 pm, the journalist of Le Magazine returned to the offices to monitor the results and to interview Mr. Feuillette. Once again, the journalist was blocked by Mr. Bousquet who told the journalist that he had to wait until about 10:15 pm or 10:30 pm to come back to the room where several supporters were gathered. At 10:35 pm, the same thing happened: the office did not allow the newspaper’s representative to enter.

The press attaché of Mr. Feuillette, Suzanne Harvey, appeared to be uncomfortable about the attitude of Me. Bousquet and she said she would try to obtain comments from Mr. Feuillette for the paper. Unfortunately, she was not able to do so because as everyone was aware, the counting of the votes went on through the evening and the Liberal candidate did not want to acknowledge his defeat until all results were officially announced.

Just a little after midnight, the paper called Mrs. Harvey who agreed to say a few things about the campaign. She confirmed that the supporters of Mr. Feuillette led an excellent campaign and that he made a “beautiful comeback.” Readers will have to accept the fact that the battle waged by Liberal candidate Christian P. Feuillette was exceptional in several aspects. Recognised as a Liberal candidate when the campaign had already started, Mr. Feuillette had to exert double effort to obtain the support of voters just a few days before the kick off. In the middle of the campaign, a polling survey was published giving him a slight advance over his Bloc opponent Thierry St-Cyr. Armed with the support of former deputy and Liberal Senator Raymond Lavigne, Mr. Feuillette continued his campaign with vigour, resulting in a very right race. He obtained 32.3% of the votes while his principal opponent obtained 34.7%.