Richard Martineau (born July 23, 1961) is a French-Canadian commentator.
Since 1998, he has co-hosted Télé-Québec's Les Francs-tireurs, first with Benoit Dutrizac and Laurent Saulnier and since 2006 with La Presse journalist Patrick Lagacé.
Career
Martineau became known for his column "Ondes de choc" (), which appeared in the Montreal weekly newspaper
Voir until 2006. Martineau has also participated in evening debates on Télévision Quatre-Saisons and was the moderator of those debates between May and September 2006. He hosted a radio programme until 2007. Radio Canada has described his work as "established him as a leftist chronicler, then he forged deep to the right and to a posture more and more pamphleteering working within the
Quebecor empire."
Controversy
In February 2020, Martineau falsely accused McGill University Professor
Daniel Weinstock of supporting female genital mutilation.
Weinstock was subsequently disinvited by Quebec Education Minister Jean-François Roberge from speaking at a conference on the Province's ethics and religious culture program. On February 21, Martineau published a non-apology, correcting his error.
Roberge apologized publicly to Weinstock on February 23.
Personal
Martineau was born in Verdun
on July 23, 1961, to a
French people mother (born 1940) and an
American people father (born 1934). He lives in Outremont
with his partner
Sophie Durocher and their son.
He previously lived with fellow journalist
Nathalie Collard, with whom he has two daughters.
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