[1][2] In 1903, Fournier joined the La Presse newspaper in Montreal, where he met the prominent Quebec nationalist Olivar Asselin.

Also in 1909, Fournier criticised the decisions being made by Quebec courts (calling them a "prostitution of justice"),[1] as well as described three former politicians as "erstwhile thugs".

[3] In 1910, Fournier worked at Le Devoir for three months before travelling to France as a correspondent for La Patrie.

Fournier formed his own weekly newspaper L’Action in April 1911, featuring contributions by his friend Asselin as well as Arthur Beauchesne, a parliamentary expert and National Historic Person of Canada, several writers and many poets.

After a three-month stint on the Montreal municipal council in 1916, Fournier's paper closed down on 29 April of that year.