Être Pierre Pettigrew

La voix de ce Teletubbie d'âge mûr est douce et sucrée comme un biscuit Oreo trempé dans le lait. Certaines mémères le trouvent même assez bel homme. [...] Tout en fredonnant des airs guillerets comme Dancing Queen et I Will Survive, il fit un saut chez son coiffeur avant de se mettre à la recherche d'un rédacteur qui pourrait torcher pour lui un essai sur l'humanisme à l'heure de la mondialisation. Jocelyn Coulon, journaliste au Devoir, lui suggéra Jean-François Nadeau, aujourd'hui rédacteur en chef du Couac. Nadeau reçut un appel de Pettigrew qui lui demanda avec empressement s'il accepterait de rédiger pour lui son beau livre. Nadeau refusa. Pettigrew insista. Nadeau refusa. Fin de l'anecdote.

Le gai savoir, Marco De Blois, mai 1999

On June 17, 2005 an incident occurred at a conference in Montreal regarding the subject of Haiti, at one point during the conference, Pettigrew was splashed with a red substance by Yves Engler, a political activist associated with the group Haiti Action Montreal. As Engler threw the red substance on Pettigrew, he shouted "Pettigrew lies, Haitians die". Engler claimed that the red substance was meant to symbolize the blood on the hands of the Canadian state due to Canada's involvement in the occupation of Haiti and the resulting mass murders of Haitian civilians calling for the return of their elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Pettigrew told police that he wanted full charges pressed against Engler. However, a couple of days later, Pettigrew suddenly decided to drop all charges. This led to speculation that Pettigrew was pressured by the Prime Minister to drop the charges in order to avoid a trial and the resulting media coverage that would come with it. Pierre Pettigrew sur Wikipedia

6 HAM[Haiti-Action Montréal]ers disrupted a talk at UQAM by Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew by repeatedly shouting him down. Two other people not affiliated with HAM joined in spontaneously and Pettigrew was forced to spend a significant part of his time shouting back at the activists to defend Canada's policy in Haiti. This is the latest action in a continuing effort by HAM to make public appearances in Montreal a trying affair for Pettigrew, and given his angry comments about how we are "following him everywhere", it appears he is starting to feel a bit besieged. trublions lors de ce grand moment de réthorique du 10 novembre 2005

Police-UN Killings in Haiti (Pierre Pettigrew), Aaron Mate, 10 octobre 2005