QAnon’s Influence in Québec, from Alexis Cossette-Trudel to Éric Duhaime: Signs of an Americanization of Québec's Political Culture?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This chapter explores the American presence within social movements opposing the Québec government's health measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020. This contribution illustrates that these visual, political, and symbolic borrowings (marked by the seal of QAnon and fostered by the anxiety-inducing aspect of the pandemic that has shaken everything in its path) are part of and reflect an Americanization of Québec's political culture. In doing so, this essay focuses on the contribution of Alexis Cossette-Trudel, who as a conduit and thinker for this movement in Québec, played a leading role in the dissemination and propagation of QAnon's ideas. This chapter also examines the involvement of Éric Duhaime, leader of the Conservative Party of Québec, whose use of the language and codes of the QAnon movement in the run-up to Québec’s provincial election on October 3, 2022, can be arguably best viewed as part of a deliberate political calculation and ideological positioning, whose effects could be felt eventually on the benches of the National Assembly of Québec.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".