Photograph by Jean-François Bérubé

by Martin Patriquin, Maclean’s

Quebecor’s restless titan: He controls the province’s media and its star system. Courted by politicians, he’s feared by journalists

“PKP’s problem is that many people hate his methods and his publications, but they are completely dependent on him,” says Émilie Dubreuil, a journalist who worked at Le Journal de Montréal. “That is the paradox.” (“Nothing could be further from the truth,” says Quebecor’s Tremblay.)