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While the English-language media in Canada are getting their knickers twisted in a knot over what Justin Trudeau did or did not do to a young female reporter 18 years ago, francophone media have been going out of their way to ignore the story.

Or give it as little coverage as possible.

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Meanwhile, the CBC reports on a “very brief touch on the rear end” and the New York Times refers to the incident as “sexual in nature.”

When I Google “Justin Trudeau inconduite sexuelle”, the first three media referenced are Paris Match, Valeurs actuelles — another magazine from France — and finally, our own La Presse.

Not that the prime minister is the most popular politician in Quebec, despite remaining top dog in voter intention.

He never recovered from his much derided Mr. Dressup trip to India. His defence of a multicultural-post-national-identity-free Canada plays badly with francophones, and legalization of recreational marijuana is opposed by a majority of Quebecois.