 Criticized by some sovereigntists, he has defended his neutrality and has claimed in the book "Aux pays des merveilles" to be a soft-nationalist and to have a soft-sovereigntist past (with claims of 'Yes' votes in both the 1980 and the 1995 Quebec referendums).He published a number of books at VLB éditeur.The first, "Le Syndrome de Pinocchio", discussed dishonesty in politics and earned him a motion of censure from the National Assembly of Quebec in 1997.