 Succeeding Alain Dubuc, he became editor-in-chief in 2001, defending the federalist and fiscally centre-right political stance of the paper.In 1994, Pratte was suspended from "La Presse" after publishing a column entitled “Tout est pourri” [It's all rotten], in which he criticized Power Corporation, the newspaper's owner at the time.After pressure from the newspaper's union of journalists, he was reinstated in his role at "La Presse".