Michel David

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Michel David (born in 1951) is a Quebecois journalist. He is in the field since 1978 and is currently columnist for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir.

David was parliamentary correspondent at the National Assembly of Quebec for Quebec City's Le Soleil from 1980 to 1991 and became President of the press gallery at the end of the 1980s. From 1994 to 2001, he was a regular collaborator to the English-language Montreal paper The Gazette. Now a columnist for the intellectual newspaper Le Devoir, he is known for issuing each year in the publication a bulletin (school report) giving grades to various prominent Members of the National Assembly for their work during the year. His columns tend to show subtle humour and slight cynicism.

After the 2001 resignation of Lucien Bouchard, he published with Quebec City cartoonist André-Philippe Côté Les années Bouchard, a book on the former Parti Québécois Premier of Quebec. The book compiled political cartoons about the politician drawn by Côté and David provided commentaries. Bouchard himself wrote the foreword.