Entartistes
Template:Short description The entartistes were a Canadian satirical political group, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s, whose members threw cream pies at political and cultural figures whom the group deemed to be in need of public embarrassment.<ref name=snipers>"Pied snipers". Montreal Gazette, January 31, 1999.</ref> A member of the group, who identified himself only as Pope-Tart, told the Montreal Gazette in 1999 that the group's core philosophy was "You work for us. You can't be too big for your britches or you'll get a pie in the face."<ref name=snipers />
History
The group was founded by several former members of the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, including François Gourd.<ref name=snipers /> They initially convened in 1995 to offer a $400 reward to anybody from across Canada who successfully pied Prime Minister Jean Chrétien,<ref name=snipers /> but after nobody accepted the offer at the time they began to plan their own pieings.<ref name=snipers />
Other figures pied by the group included Jean Charest,<ref name=charestdumont>"Mario Dumont et Jean Charest entartés". Radio-Canada, April 13, 2003.</ref> Mario Dumont,<ref name=charestdumont /> Stéphane Dion,<ref name=mallick>"Cream and punishment". The Globe and Mail, April 18, 2000.</ref> Allan Rock,<ref name=chretien>"Chrétien gets pie in face". The Globe and Mail, August 17, 2000.</ref> Pierre Pettigrew,<ref name=snipers /> William Johnson,<ref name=snipers /> Pierre Bourque,<ref name=snipers /> Jean Doré,<ref>"Doré entarté en pleine Fin du monde". La Presse, October 29, 1998.</ref> Jacques Parizeau,<ref name=mallick/> Bernard Landry<ref name=mallick /> and Jacques Duchesneau.<ref name=snipers /> Quebec politicians were the most common targets, although the group also pied Sylvester Stallone during a 1998 promotional tour.<ref name=snipers />
The group also inspired other attempts at pieing by offshoot groups across Canada. After the group released an updated "hit list" of desired targets in 1999 which included Chrétien, media mogul Conrad Black<ref name=chretien /> and pop singer Céline Dion,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Chrétien was successfully pied in 2000 by Evan Brown, a member of an offshoot group in Prince Edward Island which called itself the PEI Pie Brigade.<ref name=chretien/> Ralph Klein was pied in 2003 by Alberta resident Christopher Geoghegan.<ref name=geoghegan>"Klein pie-thrower gets jail time". CBC News, September 20, 2004.</ref>
Criminal charges
While some figures pied by the group accepted the embarrassment in good humour, several others filed charges of assault against the pie-throwers.
Bruno Caron, who had pied Parizeau, faced criminal charges in 1999.<ref name=baltimore>"Quebec cracking down on political pie throwers". The Baltimore Sun, May 27, 1999.</ref> He pleaded guilty in 2000, and was sentenced to 60 hours of community service.<ref>"L'entarteur de Jacques Parizeau plaide coupable". TVA Nouvelles, December 7, 2000.</ref>
Stéphane Dion also pressed charges against the group after his pieing, resulting in convictions of assault against group members Patrick Robert and Benoit Foisy.<ref>"Pie throwers tossed suspended sentences". CBC News, November 10, 2000.</ref> Both were sentenced to 60 hours of community service. The Globe and Mail subsequently identified Robert as the formerly anonymous group spokesman "Pope-Tart".<ref name=chretien />
Geoghegan was found guilty of assault against Klein in 2004, and sentenced to 60 days of jail time to be served on weekends, 40 hours of community service and three months' probation.<ref name=geoghegan />
Evan Brown, who pied Jean Chrétien, was found guilty of assault and sentenced to 30 days of jail time, and ordered to contribute $50 toward a victims' compensation fund.<ref>Pie pusher gets 30 days for assault on Chrétien. CBC News, May 16, 2001.</ref> The shame from the experience led Brown to quit his acting career and move to Halifax, Nova Scotia to become a theater technician, later writing a one-man show about the experience.<ref>Evan Brown - Problems With Authority. CBC News, September 6, 2012.</ref>