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much more ammunition to, Althia listed some of them, to the Liberal's, to their point, but talk to me about where you think this debate, like the level of debate tells us about where we're at. >> Well, I mean, I can think of a hundred things wrong with Canadian politics and parliamentary decorum wouldn't be 101st. When politicians are attacking each other, they're at least closer to the truth than when they're praising themselves, and for all that's going on in Parliament, I can assure you that a lot worse is happening on social media and a lot worse will be happening during the campaign with the political advertising. Personal attacks are the bread and butter of politics, I'm afraid to say. We talked about, you know, framing or defining, let's call it what it is, smearing, and that's what they do to each other. So that has become part of the, as I say, the whoop and woof of politics. There's no doubt that Pierre Poilievre has brought a particularly snippy elbows-up style to Canadian politics in general and including his demeanor in Parliament, but the Liberals have a number of ways of showing contempt for parliament procedurally. This is government that has, you know, stonewalled committee, has refused to let witnesses appear before them, refused to release documents that Parliament had commanded, demanded one of the absolute undoubted prerogatives of Parliament. So between, you know, procedural contempt, and rhetorical sneers, I think I know which is worse for Parliament, except with the proviso that if Poilievre were in power, we'd probably be getting both. Each party comes into power vowing to clean up the mess left by the other guys, and then just does it, takes it to a new level, in terms of the demeaning of Parliament and of M.P.s roles as the people's representatives. And I'll just close with this point that when you see people behaving as childishly, as M.P.s do, it is usually a signal of their own lack of self respect. If parliamentarians were a bigger deal, if a to be a Member of Parliament was a more important and dignified position, I suspect you'd see less of the kind of barracking and childish displays that you do. But when people are basically there to stand up and sit down when they're told, that's the behaviour you tend to get. >> Rosemary: Maybe, I mean, I think social media is a pretty big factor to, you made that point as well, Chantal. >> Except when the Liberals invented what was called the Rat Pack, basically a group of M.P.s whose only goal in life was to make Parliament life impossible for the Mulroney government. There was no social media. And still, that is the antics that they got down to. So up to a point, if that puts a spring in the step of Liberal M.P.s, and Althia would see that, I wouldn't, I'm sitting in Montreal, then they're in pretty bad shape. Because there is nothing that you've watched. Do you think Chrystia Freeland and people around her are proud of her tonight? Does it enhance her reputation to look like that? It doesn't. So if that's where they're at that this is the kind of stuff that makes them happy, God, that Kool-Aid must be really good. >> I mean, if you're going to be objectionable, you should at least be comprehensible. I mean, does anybody know what on earth that line was trying to get at other than I guess Poilievre was wearing makeup but what did that have to do with anything, you know? I mean, the thing that's interesting about Poilievre in that regard is, to talk about the Rat Pack, is it used to be that the leader stayed above the fray and you left the dirty work to your backbench M.P.s, and indeed you left the appeals to the extremes to your henchmen rather than the leader tried to take a moderate thing. With Poilievre, he's the guy who is keeping the People's Party people in the tent and he's the guy who's still his own best attack dog. So he's pioneering a new style of leadership politics in that regard. >> Rosemary: Last quick word to you, Althia? >> Well, I think with the makeup comment, what she was trying to say is that or paint the picture that he is a phony, that like, the people outside Ottawa don't realize that, you know what, what he pretends he is, it may not be who he is. I think that's in that frame. I think the reason that the Liberals are going to such lengths is because frankly, they don't have any money. They're not advertising. They're not spending any money on social media pushing out any ads whatsoever. So they decided to use their own politicians to deliver that message. I don't think that's a wise strategy. >> Rosemary: Okay. I'm gonna take a break here, but we covered makeup and decorum and everything we could in that block. When we come back, we'll look at the Parti Québecois and their appeals to Anglo voters in the province. >> It pays off to be independent. >> Rosemary: So why is the Parti Québecois was doing that? And is Québec independence back on the table? Did it ever leave? That's next. Hey, let's go, man. [laughter] You're one of my favourite interviewers. Announcer: Q with Tom Power. Available now onCBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. Ram Power Days are here.The power to choose fromthe most awarded truck brand over the last five years.

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except at the time of the Meech Lake Accord and Jacques Parizeau, but two things. The more Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, that's his name, talks about sovereignty, the more you see some regions starting to think again about the P.Q., the Québec City area, for instance, is now edging away from the Parti Québecois. The other thing to know about Québec is the Québec Liberals at this point do not have a leader. But recent polls have suggested very mildly that the return of this issue might actually be the kiss of life for the Québec Liberals. >> Rosemary: Interesting. Andrew, what are you thinking when you see all that and we hear Chantal? >> Well, I agree with everything Chantal said that a lot can happen in the next two years that could confound the P.Q.'s ambitions. I think that particular point about the Liberals, this being the kiss of life for the Liberals, and therefore, returning to the polarization around that issue that has served both the P.Q. and the Liberals well over the years, is well taken. But let's not kid ourselves. If the P.Q. gets in, in spite of, rather than because of their stance on the referendum, they will no doubt seize the opportunity. And certainly the opportunity to try to provoke confrontations, particularly over immigration. And so we need to be thinking about that. I will note that this, this return to the fray follows several years in which the the CAQ government has been watching one constitutional provocation after another and has had no serious response from any political leader in Ottawa. And I don't think that's coincidental that we have to I guess keep relearning this lesson that when Québec nationalists push and nobody pushes back in Ottawa, when the leadership acts as if they don't believe the country has any moral foundation, they don't believe we have a right to exist or to exist as a coherent federation, then Québecers are entitled to draw the appropriate conclusion of if they don't care about it why should we? So this attempt to sort of buy piece by just staying "vewy, vewy quiet", I think is, we ought to have learned doesn't work. And we'll we'll learn that lesson in spades as the P.Q. gets back in. >> Rosemary: Yeah, I mean, I guess it's about not sticking, you know, putting a stick in through the cage, right? I mean, that's what some Federal leaders believe works in this case, but I take your point. Althia. >> Yeah, it's about not inflaming. It's not just feelings that are held by sovereigntists in Québec, but by the general population. So if you inflame on Bill 21, as the Liberals have learned, if you inflame on Bill 96, which is the language bill, you're worried about your seat count come the next election. And if you're the Liberal Party, you know, a significant chunk of your seats come from Québec so that's not a risk that you're willing to take. And you may also philosophically think that it's not worth creating a fight, giving the sovereigntist a front on which to attack you and attack the federation. I think it's really interesting that the P.Q. is advertising in English. I think, frankly, it's positive because at least it makes Anglophones feel like they're in Québec, that they're part of a Québec project and not, you know, on the sidelines and not included in the idea of what a Québec nation or country would look like. His argument about the financial incentive to separate to me make absolutely no sense. It's not even factually accurate. So I don't know why he is choosing that front. I think one legit criticism and concern shared by many Québecers is the immigration question, is the idea that not just immigration in Québec, and this is like, you know, not having control over the borders with the asylum seekers coming in at Roxham Road etc., but also immigration in the rest of Canada means that the weight of francophone Québecers has significantly dropped or just even of Québecers has has dropped, you know, there used to be, I think it's 27.5% of Francophones in the country and 1975, and now we're down at 22% or something of the sort. So, continuously, every time we have a redistricting of the seats in the House of Commons, basically, Québec gets an additional seat grandfathered in, because their population doesn't justify the weight that they have. And there are concerns that, you know, the more immigrants there are in the province and outside of the province, the less important Québec becomes, and the less important French become. So I think that is a legitimate criticism, and that is a criticism that Federal leaders come the next election will absolutely have to deal with, and if the P.Q. is leading in the polls, I think one question will be who can speak to-- who can be Captain Canada, and I think the leaders will be judged on that front. >> Rosemary: Chantal. >> I can see things that the Conservative party and government under its current leader could do to make more Québecers interested in the sovereignty issue, and on matters that have nothing to do with the Constitution, or even immigration, but that have to do with climate change, with the future ofRadio Canada, with support for cultural industries,

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