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Michel David (born 1951) is a Canadian journalist and is a columnist for the Montreal, Quebec, Canada, newspaper Le Devoir .
David became a journalist in 1978. He was the parliamentary correspondent at the National Assembly of Quebec for Quebec City's Le Soleil from 1980 to 1991 and became President of the press gallery [1] at the end of the 1980s. From 1994 to 2001, he was a regular contributor to the English-language Montreal paper The Gazette .[ citation needed ] Now a columnist for the newspaper Le Devoir , he contributes each year to its publication of a bulletin (report card), giving grades to prominent Members of the National Assembly for their work during the year.[ citation needed ] His columns tend to show subtle humour and slight cynicism.[ citation needed ]
After the 2001 resignation of Lucien Bouchard, he published, with Quebec City cartoonist André-Philippe Côté, Les années Bouchard, a book on the former Parti Québécois Premier of Quebec. The book compiled political cartoons of Bouchard drawn by Côté; David provided commentaries and Bouchard, himself, the foreword.
