 His negative portrayal of some Quebec government policies was given international coverage in the United States and Great Britain, where French-speaking Quebecers were heard and read much less often than English Canadians.Richler's views were strongly criticized in Quebec and, to some degree, among anglophone Canadians.He notably compared some Quebec nationalist writers in the newspaper "Le Devoir" in the 1930s to Nazi propagandists in "Der Stürmer" and criticized the Quebec politician, René Lévesque, before an American audience.