less helpful to the "yes" campaign was a speech by former television presenter lise payette to a committee in montreal, where she mocked what she viewed as the "no" side's complacency by imagining a person who planned on voting "no" as a "yvette -" a docile schoolgirl from pre-quiet revolution schoolbooks. payette also used this as a general theme in the legislature. payette stated that ryan wanted a quebec full of "yvettes" and that his wife, madeline ryan, was an yvette. lise bissonnette, a popular journalist, responded to payette's personal attack wrote a sarcastic editorial that compared payette's television career with mme ryan's accomplishments in the public and private sector.