Jacques Nageotte

Jacques Nageotte Pleimelding (born August 7, 1967) is a Canadian media presenter, documentarian, director and reporter. Nagoette has been based in since 2011, after his Quebec secession hoax, "Au revoir Canada", led to a media firestorm, him being widely attacked in Canadian media, a petition calling for him to be fired from his job at, and numerous hate mail and death threats on social media.

Au revoir Canada (2010)
Nageotte prepared the Quebec secession hoax under the code name "Au revoir Canada" over a 3-year period. The hoax broadcast occurred on October 10, 2010, on the Quebec stations of and   station. Its goal was to show the Québecois the intensity and possible consequences of Quebec separatism and Quebec nationalism, and the real possibility of Quebec declaring independence from Canada.

Regular programming on the Quebec stations of Radio-Canada and CBC's CBMT-TV was interrupted for a news bulletin claiming that the National Assembly of Quebec had issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Canada. Interviews with prominent Francophone and Anglophone Québecois politicians (all of whom had been informed about the hoax) as well as staged footage of the evacuation of staff members of organizations such as the National Film Board of Canada and Canadian Heritage as well as cheering crowds holding the Flag of Quebec were included so as to add credence to the news report.

The broadcast of the report led to widespread alarm and consternation in Quebec. A hotline set up by Radio-Canada was swamped by 2,600 calls, whilst the Radio-Canada and CBMT-TV websites crashed. Thirty minutes into the broadcast, on demand of the, an on-screen message identified it as fiction.

Prominent Canadian and Québecois politicians condemned the hoax as "irresponsible." Nageotte was trolled on social media, and received a large amount of hate mail and death threats.

On November 1, 2010, Nageotte announced he was moving to,. He did not specify his reasons for relocating, but after arriving in Paris in February 2011 said that it had been "exhausting" to have been the subject of controversy and that he had felt betrayed by his home country and his home province.

Post-relocation career (2011-present)
Living in Paris, Nageotte continues to write on his own blog and has presented travel and news programs for the CBC and Radio-Canada.

In 2018, Nageotte played a parody version of himself in the feature film Manny West: Too Damn Bad for TV. Shot in and -, Nageotte is portrayed as the "other rival" to Dan Pickler's showman character, who originated in the TV series Quad.