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Joyce Napier (born June 15, 1958) is a Canadian television journalist. Formerly a correspondent for the news division of
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, the French-language arm of the
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'' La Presse'', May 8, 2014.
she became, in March 2016, the parliamentary bureau chief for
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. Born in
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,
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to parents from Egypt, she spent her childhood in Europe where her father worked for the
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. She returned to Montreal to study journalism. She began her career as a print journalist, working as a Montreal correspondent for ''
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'' and
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before joining the Montreal newspaper '' La Presse'' as a reporter. She began working for CBMT as a television reporter in 1989. Around the same time, she married Neil Macdonald, a reporter with the English division of
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. She first joined the CBC's French service in 1992 as part of a project within the CBC, in which she and Radio-Canada journalist Pierre Mignault exchanged jobs for a year in order to provide the CBC with staff input regarding the different organizational cultures of the two divisions. During the 1995 Quebec referendum, Napier asked
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Member of Parliament
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to explain the Yes side's assertion that Quebec would be better able to support and protect francophone language rights in Canada as an independent country than as a Canadian province."Non-Quebecois accent sounds ignorant to MP". ''
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'', October 18, 1995.
In response, Tremblay asserted that Napier's non-French surname, and the fact that she spoke French with a
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rather than Québécois accent, meant that Napier lacked the requisite knowledge of Quebec history to understand that the answer was self-evident and did not need to be explained. Tremblay subsequently apologized for the remark. Napier was named Radio-Canada's
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correspondent in 1998, at the same time as Macdonald was assigned to the same role with the CBC's English division. In 2003, Macdonald and Napier were both reassigned by their respective networks to the
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bureau. In 2005, Napier conducted the first media interview granted by
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after her release from prison. She announced that she was taking a one-year
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from the network in May 2014. She returned in August 2015 as a correspondent in the network's national parliamentary bureau in
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,"Information à Radio-Canada : l'illusion parfaite"
''
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'', August 14, 2015.
before transferring to CTV in 2016.


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