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	Bernard Valcourt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bernard Valcourt, PC (born February 18, 1952) is a Canadian politician and lawyer.
		Valcourt, a New Brunswicker, was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1984 election that brought Brian Mulroney to power.
		Valcourt resigned as leader in 1997 following a lukewarm endorsement of his leadership at a party convention, and was succeeded by Bernard Lord.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Valcourt (271 words)

	A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
		That the rapist is Valcourt’s best student suggests a certain ambiguity in the role of the West as teacher (in fact, the antagonism between Tutsi and Hutu was an early colonial lesson).
		Her father describes her as "a mysterious mix of all the seeds and all the toil of this country," and claims that by marrying her Bernard will be marrying Rwanda.
		Bernard as the jaded newsman who goes native is something of a cliché.
	www.goodreports.net /reviews/asundayatthepoolinkigali.htm (551 words)

	Books \| Genocide in the jungle
		Valcourt tries to protect Gentille, who is increasingly at risk because of her attributes, as he witnesses the daily violence against Tutsis and their supporters.
		Valcourt meets the '100 little pieces of flesh' that used to be his friend, Émérita, who was shredded by a grenade while taking a shower, and the macheted bodies of husband and wife, Cyprian and Georgina, looking like 'abattoir refuse, carcasses clumsily cut up by unskilled butchers'.
		Valcourt, and Courtemanche, is even sceptical of the inherently predatory nature of people who need only a trigger, 'something that clicks, a failing, a patient conditioning, rage, disappointment'.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4767361-99930,00.html (736 words)

	New Brunswick general election, 1995 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1995 election in the Canadian province of New Brunswick marked the debut of Bernard Valcourt as a provincial politician, and as leader of a reinvigorated Progressive Conservative Party.
		Frank McKenna sought a third term for his Liberal government, while the Confederation of Regions (CoR) party struggled to survive after considerable internal strife.
		Valcourt, a popular politician from Edmundston, had served as an MP from 1984 to 1993, and served in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney and Kim Campbell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Brunswick_general_election,_1995 (268 words)

	ZTO Kigali: A Novel Of The Rwandan Massacres
		Bernard Valcourt, a Quebecois journalist, is in Rwanda to help set up a TV station.
		As a journalist, Valcourt feels obligated to note and report what he sees and hears, as a human being he feels the need to intervene, to try to stop the senseless killing and maiming.
		Valcourt and Gentille are separated as they try to leave the country, and Valcourt will spend months trying to find out what happened to her.
	perspectives.zambezitimes.com /fullcom.php?id_comm=19 (1091 words)

	The Oxonian Review of Books
		Valcourt is a fictional archetype, a burnt-out case who has been in the country too long and seen too much.
		Valcourt sits alone and jots on his notepad, writing only ‘to put in time between mouthfuls of beer….waiting for a scrap of life to excite him and make him unfold his wings’.
		Valcourt wants a deeper connection both to another human being and to a country he is beginning to call home, in short an end to the journalist’s transitory, parasitic existence.
	www.oxonianreview.org /issues/3-1/3-1-1.htm (2608 words)

	A moving novel exploring the Rwanda tragedy: Review of Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
		Valcourt observes bitterly that Raphael’s nest egg, his motorbike, soon disappeared, because when Methode was in hospital, “to comply with the dictates of the International Monetary Fund,” food and nursing as well as the drugs had to be paid for by the patient and his family.
		Later on in the narrative, Valcourt accompanies a young Canadian diplomat to the main hospital in Kigali to identify the body of a murdered priest, Francois Cardinal.
		Valcourt concludes it is useless appealing either to the UN or to governments.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/nov2003/rwan-n04.shtml (1744 words)

	Banking-Issue 20-Evidence, March 3, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Valcourt, when you said that you yourself were dismayed and you could not understand any logic behind this law other than purely partisan political reasons.
		Valcourt: As a politician, I have always tried to look at initiatives from a public policy perspective -- the underlying reasons, the public policy objective -- and it is the issue of the principle of an integrated federal-provincial sales tax, and I have no problem with that.
		Valcourt, your articulation certainly has not changed since you were in Ottawa; you are as articulate as you were when you were in the House of Commons.
	www.parl.gc.ca /35/2/parlbus/commbus/senate/Com-e/bank-e/20eva-e.htm?Language=E&Parl=35&Ses=2&comm_id=3 (20753 words)

	Race & Ethnicity: Eckert: Refugee Law
		When Immigration Minister Valcourt announced that Nada would be allowed to stay in Canada, he also announced plans for new guidelines that refugee boards could use in adjudicating claims of gender-based persecution.
		Valcourt was originally opposed to such guidelines for three reasons.
		The fear of such a burden was one reason why Canadian Immigration Minister Valcourt was reluctant to institute the guidelines initially.43 A universal solution would prevent one state or a few states from bearing an unfair share of the refugee flow.
	www.eserver.org /race/refugee-law.html (2842 words)

	CBC - New Brunswick Votes 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bernard Lord's big blue campaign bus came here for a quick stop at the village's small strip mall, where the PC leader lent a hand to his local candidate, Don Kinney.
		Lord's wife Diane was with him for the trip and the premier quickly established a meet-and-greet routine with voters: First, humbly introduce himself - "Hello, I'm Bernard Lord." Then introduce his wife.
		He doesn't shy away from spontaneous meetings with voters the way his predecessor, Bernard Valcourt, did.
	www.cbc.ca /nbvotes2003/campaigntrail/postcard05.html (449 words)

	- Libri/DVD - Una domenica in piscina a Kigali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Valcourt, in un'atmosfera surreale da crepuscolo degli dei, s'innamora perdutamente di una ragazza che ha il volto disperato del meticcio: è una hutu, ma ha le forme e l'eleganza dei tutsi.
		Una volta sposati, Valcourt si rifiuterà di lasciare il Rwanda una volta cominciato l'atroce genocidio dei tutsi per stare accanto a Gentille (questo il nome della moglie) e vivere fino in fondo la disintegrazione di un paese non meno che di un'umanità e delle sue speranze.
		Valcourt si innamora, si fa degli amici e delle amiche, li vede e le vede diventare vittime dell'immane tragedia e vede altresì l'assenza del suo mondo, quell'occidente ancora una volta indifferente ai drammi di popolazioni considerate 'periferiche'.
	www.feltrinelli.it /SchedaLibro/SchedaLibroRecensioni?id_volume=5000355 (895 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bernard Valcourt, a Quebecois journalist whose overly cerebral relation to the world has left him “dead though alive,” learns how to live from his African friends, several of whom are already dying of AIDS when the state militias gather to kill them.
		In Rwanda Valcourt learns about love from the gorgeous Gentille whose beauty is devastating in both senses of that word: the tallness and thinness that attracts Valcourt are also classically Tutsi, according to the racial classifications that, first taught by the colonizers, have been internalized by the colonized.
		This makes Gentille neither Hutu nor Tutsi, but Rwandan: she is “like the fruit of the red earth of this hill, a mysterious mix of all the seeds and all the toil of this country.” When Valcourt marries her he also “marries” the country of a thousand hills.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/182/6249_Tenkortenaar.html (600 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Books - Death and the maiden
		The first thing you need to know about Gentille is that she has breasts as lovely as her name, breasts which are so pointed they abrade her starched shirt dress as she serves beer and breakfasts at the white plastic table by the swimming pool at the Hotel des Mille-Collines.
		Valcourt is at first only a barely disguised version of himself, the first time he visited Rwanda in 1988.
		For although she wasn’t a Tutsi, her crime was that she looks like one: lighter skinned, straighter nosed, longer legged, descended from the Arab traders to the north rather than the squatter, negroid Hutu majority.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=953802003 (1384 words)

	A Sunday by the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche - read book review
		Bernard Valcourt, in his forties, is a Radio Canada producer who accepts the job of setting up a TV station in Rwanda for a Canadian international development agency.
		Valcourt fears that this lovely young woman will leave him for someone younger and more attractive; Gentille believes that this thoughtful, considerate Canadian will abandon her for someone less troublesome and better educated.
		Courtemanche's lyrical nature imagery throughout the novel is in sharp contrast to the horrors of the torture and genocide of Tutsi men, the rape and mutilation of their women, and the maiming of their children.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /world/courtemanche.htm (1060 words)

	How a Genocide Happened
		Bernard Valcourt is a Canadian, a widower in his late forties, who sometimes pretends to be writing, just to prove to himself he is alive.
		Valcourt has been admiring Gentille for months, but had felt she was too young, too shy for him to make any advances.
		Valcourt knew why the man had been killed, but knew also it was not the stuff of news bulletins.
	www.worldandi.com /subscribers/feature_detail.asp?num=24030 (1955 words)

	Books : A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali at Connected Globe
		Among them is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec, on a mission to set up a television station in the capital.
		Valcourt, who for two decades has earned his living from wars and famines, lingers around the pool drinking warm beer and watching football; but most of all, watching Gentille, a beautiful young waitress, who is a Hutu but often mistaken for a Tutsi because of her family’s strange history.
		As Kigali life continues in its resourcefulness and persistence, Valcourt is falling in love with Rwanda, and with Gentille, who loves him because he sees her as no-one has seen her before.
	www.connectedglobe.com /cgi-local/amazon/cgapf.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=1400041074&templates=millennium (1110 words)

	A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche - read excerpt
		Valcourt, who is also Québécois but has almost forgotten it over the years, observes these things and notes them down, muttering as he does so, sometimes angrily, sometimes with tenderness, but always audibly.
		Rather like a buzzard on a branch, in fact, Valcourt is waiting for a scrap of life to excite him and make him unfold his wings.
		Gentille and Valcourt attempt to flee the country to safety but are separated--and it will be months before Valcourt learns of Gentille's shocking fate.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/sundaykigali.htm (1429 words)

	A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali By Gil Courtemanche - The Northern Rivers Echo Newspaper, Lismore
		Amongst them is the central character, Bernard Valcourt, a recently widowed Canadian filmmaker in his forties who came on a project to help establish a local television station.
		Valcourt becomes a participant after meeting the elegant Gentille, a hotel waitress 20 years his junior and, as will be her undoing, a Hutu (from her father's side) in a Tutsi-looking body.
		Enraged by the UN peacekeepers' refusal to intervene, Valcourt struggles to preserve his relationship and keep his wife alive, ultimately being sidelined by a wave of government-sanctioned killings on a scale unmatched in Africa.
	www.echonews.com /1003/book_reviews.html (414 words)

	[No title]
		In May, 1992, LEGIT submitted a brief to the Honourable Bernard Valcourt, the Minister of Immigration.
		Bernard Valcourt, then Minister of Employment and Immigration, refused to meet with the representatives of the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Task-Force.
		She said that she recognized that the issue was a "humanitarian" issue and that it fit with the existing immigration policies on "family reunification".
	www.qrd.org /qrd/world/americas/canada/1993/taking.the.next.step (2184 words)

	The Taylor Report - Rwanda 1994: Colonialism dies hard
		Valcourt does not do it because he is brave, as his lover Gentille suggests to him, but only because he “can’t behave any other way”, because he “acts by reflex, because that’s the way one ought to in a civilized society”.
		Valcourt is a man tortured by the great moral and existential questions of our time, and the concomitant quest for good, whereas he is surrounded by reckless, happy-go-lucky, simple-minded Africans.
		Valcourt is a man of letters and of intellect who is able to teach his lover Gentille “to come with words”, which it seems no African could do.
	www.taylor-report.com /Rwanda_1994/ch11.php (2374 words)

	Canadian Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Valcourt, you may remember, had to resign as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs following a drunk driving motorcycle accident that cost him an eye.
		After the PCs were turfed out of political existence in 1993, Valcourt was elected leader of the NB PCs, but the party won only 6 seats to the Frank McKenna-led Liberals' 55.
		He resigned as leader after a very lukewarm leadership endorsement and was replaced by Bernard Lord.
	www.canadian-politics.com /seeing_stars.htm (850 words)

	Women's Action 2.2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nada arrived in Canada on April 5, 1991 seeking asylum as a refugee on the basis of gender discrimination she faced in her home country.
		Minister Valcourt's decision will allow her to remain in Canada and give her a chance to resume a normal life.
		Bernard Valcourt, the Canadian Employment and Immigration Minister, welcoming his intervention on behalf of Nada and his broader efforts to address the issue of refugee status on grounds of gender discrimination.
	www.equalitynow.org /english/actions/action_0202_en.html (419 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As a matter of fact, the respondents acquired their licences between the fall of 1987 and February 1990 and were all limited to a choice of the best of fewer than four years.
		In late 1991, the respondents filed a statement of claim against the Crown and against the then Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, the Honourable Bernard Valcourt whereby they sought a declaration that "the current owner restriction" in the catch history allocation was unlawful, and damages, including punitive and exemplary damages.
		By agreement, the issues to be decided at trial were split in two parts: the legality issue and, if and when illegality was found, the relief.
	reports.fja.gc.ca /fc/src/shtml/1998/pub/v2/1998fc21792.shtml (5089 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Books : A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
		But the voice of journalist Bernard Valcourt, Courtemanche's alter ego, is not especially bitter.
		Out of loneliness and grief from the recent death of his wife, Valcourt falls hopelessly in love with Gentille, a young Hutu waitress who has the tragic misfortune of looking like a Tutsi.
		Unable to leave her, he becomes witness to one of the worst nightmares in human history, a nightmare he describes with a detached empathy that owes much to his hero Albert Camus.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2003/050103/books.html (648 words)

	Yu4You.com: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali: Books: Gil Courtmanche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Description: Bernard Valcourt is a Canadian journalist in Rwanda planning a film on the local AIDS epidemic when he falls in love with Gentille, a Tutsi who works at his hotel at the time of the Hutu-led genocides.
		The Rwanda painted by Courtemanche (a Canadian journalist himself) is a country bloodied by ignorance, hatred, sexual obsession and lust for power, as terrifying and darkly obscene as anything imaginable.
		Tragic and deeply touching at turns (and illuminating from an historical perspective), the novel is nevertheless cheapened by Valcourt's muddled sentimentalizing and adolescent grandiloquence.
	www.yu4you.com /items/en/knjiga/item_3568.html (375 words)

	Elhatton's Funeral Home/ Maison Funéraire Héritage
		The death of Clement R. Valcourt, 80, of South Tetagouche, husband of Corinne (Bernard) Valcourt occurred Saturday, 19 June 2004 at the Chaleur Regional Hospital following a lengthy illness.
		Born in Bathurst he was the son of the late Euclide Valcourt and the late Helene Pitre.
		6 daughters, Anita Levesque (Leo) of Ripon QC, Jeannine Valcourt of South Tetagouche, NB, Dolores Lavigne (Alphonse) of Bathurst, NB, Carol Ward (Clayton) of South Tetagouche, NB, Louise Valcourt (Kevin Tremblay) of LaPlante, NB, Cheryl Roy (Levi) of Honduras.
	www.mfheritage.com /English/obit_details.asp?obit_id=7580 (248 words)

	New Internationalist: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali - Mixed Media - Book Review
		Among them are Bernard Valcourt, a disillusioned Quebecois journalist, and Gentille, a shy, beautiful waitress who is a Hutu but is often mistaken for a Tutsi.
		Bernard and Gentille embark on a passionate, doomed love affair as the country slides towards catastrophe.
		That said, this is a moving and brave meditation on love and evil as well as a scathing indictment of an 'international community' inert and complicit in the face of genocide.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_358/ai_105767357 (371 words)

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