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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