The time Pierre Elliott Trudeau struck Raymond Beaudoin in the games

Date: Monday August 30. However, 1993

Location: in Place des Arts during the Montreal World Film Festival

Known persons involved: the character of a worldly reporter Raymond Beaudoin embodied by Pierre Brassard and the ex-Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In addition, The future PM Justin Trudeau (22) was also sitting right next to his father during the event.

Malaysian scale: 7/10

The context

In 1993. Moreover, the former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau (PET), attended a preview screening of an episode of the documentary series devoted to his memoirs. Consequently, Not backing in front of any worldly to spawn with the gratin. However, the reporter of the Blue Powder Raymond Beaudoin went to accost the ex-polician to ask him some murderous questions. In addition, Before the time pierre elliott trudeau struck screening, but also after.

Beaudoin’s incisive questions were right for the patience of Trudeau who attacked it physically on a barbichette and glasses reporter. Moreover, This surrealist altercation was presented to the program Let’s teach the planet And has become cult. However,

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The course of events

Pierre Brassard told in the interview on the program The evening is (still) young in 2017 that it was during a meeting the same day of the report that the idea of going to tease Trudeau appeared. Meanwhile, Ghislain Taschereau. Meanwhile, another powder blue, then learns in the newspaper that the ex PM will attend a screening of a time pierre elliott trudeau struck documentary on his memories at the Films of the World Festival. The idea of sending Raymond Beaudoin covering the event was all natural.

Once there. Beaudoin attended the entrance to the one who had been Prime Minister until 1984, flanked by his son, the future politician Justin Trudeau (beautiful hair).

Once Pierre Elliott Trudeau is seated to view the documentary, the thunderous character embodied by Pierre Brassard decides to tease him. From his strident “hiiiiyyyooooo here Raymond Beaudoin!”, He approaches the ex-state man asking him: “What is the title of your film?” After Trudeau replied that the film in question had no title, Beaudoin time pierre elliott trudeau struck retorts “it’s not” darling, I spit on Quebecers “?”

Not knowing too much what to answer, Mr. Trudeau tries a joke: “I spit on you …” Beaudoin then asks if the documentary wants to be a kind of Jurassic park (a very dated question. the film was going to make the poster in Quebec in June of that year) where “we dig out old monsters to scare the world …”

Having a knit to leave with the incisive questions of the reporter all of a powdered powder. Trudeau sent him this overflowing replica of subtlety: “Are you a shit … What do you want to say?”

But Raymond Beaudoin had not said his last word and he intended to make the piece spit the architect of the night of the long knives.

He therefore finds it after the screening of the film. The ex-politician, even before letting Beaudoin question her, tears off the reporter’s favorite barbichette.

A few seconds later, it is an authentic slap in the face that the honorable pet will administer to the false reporter.

But. It was not over.

In the moments that followed. while Beaudoin risks formulating a joke on the initials of his name (PET), Trudeau heads towards time pierre elliott trudeau struck him to assemble the ultimate assault: a kick in the private parts.

Despite this attack by the septuagenarian. the character of Pierre Brassard returns to the charge, but the bodyguards of Pet quickly made him away.

Raymond Beaudoin will talk about this experience in another episode of teasing the planet. We then find him on a couch in the office of a psychologist. In the tone of confidence. he expresses his dismay with the following sentence: “I always believed that a pet was taking himself back …”

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What is left today

In the aftermath of the diplomatic incident. Nathalie Petrowski, present at the first of the documentary, tells in The press What she saw when the tele-journal cameras had unfortunately already left.

“The episode brought, if not a little action, at least a happy contrast to the somewhat too angelic portrait that we had just offered us …” His ticket can always be consulted here.

The powder blue themselves have often talked about this time of TV that has become cult in Quebec.

On the radio. Pierre Brassard revealed in 2017 that the slap in the face given by Pierre Elliott Trudeau was more painful, both in the ego and in the face than the kick in the games.

In an interview with the newspaper in 2016. Jacques Chevalier told us that the Prime Minister’s entourage had tried to stifle the case at the time. “We were afraid of being censored. to be sure that time pierre elliott trudeau struck it was known, we had made history flow on the press sons.”

In 2005, Musimax ranked the event in 93rd position of its top of Scandals and tragedies of Quebec showbiz (2005).

Present during the incident. Justin Trudeau will be inspired by the pugilistic prowess of his father to climb the ring of years later, on March 31, 2012, to face conservative senator Patrick Brazeau in a boxing fight.

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