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these are all issues upon which the consensus does cross the line between sovereigntist and the average Québecers, and the moment where you say, whatever is going on, in Parliament, whatever those policies are, we are not, we are not going there. And that is probably the place, climate change, I know it doesn't sound sexy, like talking about Bill 21 and Bill 96. But what's missing from the sovereigntist support is the younger generation of Québecers. >> Rosemary: Very quick last word, Andrew. >> Just on the immigration thing, let's supposing we get 100 million people by the end of the 20th century, which is-- the 21st century, which is the great fear that's been raised about this. And let's supposing that Québec's share, that falls to 18%. And let's supposing two thirds of those are French speakers. So it's maybe the worst case scenario you can imagine. That still means you got 12 million French speakers in Québec versus 8 million today. So this notion that Québec is about to be drowned by this deluge of immigrants, or it's going to lose all its clout in the Federation, it had 29% of the population after World War II, it was much less important in the Federation, much less powerful than it is today with 22%. It's not a simple function of your share of the population. >> Rosemary: Okay, I gotta leave it there. We have to take a short break here. But when we come back, we'll talk about the latest would be Conservative nominee to raise concerns around the process for that party. That's next. Michael J. Fox:When Hugo lost his brother in a tragic accident, he could have easily given up on his dreams. But he chose the hard road instead. [intense] - -[crowd cheers] (Keys jingling, click of light switch) Your boss' name is Heather And she made you have an awful day Let me sing all your problems away Get started for free on eharmony. Must be 18 or older to join. Get who gets you. eharmony. Parrots are incredible animals. [Parrot] Another overdue bill! Yeah. They're also extremely intelligent. [Parrot] Forgot to pay again! They also repeat things they hear a lot. The new BMO eclipse rise Visa card rewards you with points for paying your bill on time every month to help build a routine. [Parrot] Rewards you with points! And you get 5x the points on things like groceries, dining and recurring bill payments. [Parrot] For paying your bill! —But also you can... — [Parrot] Every month! —And just remember. —[Parrot] Build a routine! [Parrot squawking] He is a talker. When a bank helps you make real financial progress. That's the BMO Effect. BMO (Sniffling) Feeling Claritin Clear is like... ( ) Is she...? Claritin Clear? Yeah. Get fast, non-drowsy allergy symptom relief. Live Claritin Clear. It's Leon's Storewide Super Sale! Save up to 50% on furniture. Save up to 50% on mattresses. Plus, get an L2 washer and dryer set for only $998 including a 2 year warranty! Ends Wednesday! ( ) That's a DQ Chicken Strip Basket! Oh look at those tasty DQ chicken strips. And fries! Plus all the dips! Oh let's order one, right now! DQ. Happy Tastes Good. ( ) Milestones aren't for looking back— They remind us to keep moving forward. Introducing Mazda's largest 2-Row SUV. With hybrid power... ...and spacious versatility. Made for more meaningful journeys. The first-ever Mazda CX-70. Available as a Mild Hybrid Inline 6 Turbo or as a Plug-In Hybrid. ( ) Looking for a natural health product to reduce your joint pain. Try Genacol® Pain Relief. This clinically proven joint care formula contains AminoLock® Collagen and Eggshell Membrane These two ingredients help reduce joint pain associated with osteoarthritis. Thanks to Genacol® Pain Relief, you can start to feel results in just 5 days! Add Canada's #1 Selling Joint Care Supplement to your daily routine and feel the difference! Genacol® Makes me feel so good! With FASTSIGNS, signage that gets you noticed turns hot lots into homes. FastSigns. Make Your Statement. When you back hurts, life hurts. Robax dual action formula relieves pain and relaxes tight muscles. Take back your back with Robax. [explosion] [dynamic] How can any of this be fair? It shows you where it starts, where it ends. Andrew:Where we're all aboutexplaining and expanding. >> Andrew Chang: May is Asian Heritage Month. Join us in celebrating the many

contributions that Asian Canadians make to Canada. >> Rosemary: Another would-be Conservative nominee is raising concerns over the nomination process. This is the third time issues have been raised with the process of choosing a candidate. Allegations have centered around the party playing favourites. Is this an issue for the Conservatives? Or is the process just like this for all political parties? Let's bring back our panelists, Chantal, Andrew, and Althia. I don't know who wants to go first here, Althia, maybe you. I mean, to some extent this is normal in that parties usually do have a favourite and sometimes they put their thumb on the scale to get the candidate, the nominee that they want for the candidate. What's interesting here is that I don't think people are being really honest about what's happening in terms of who's putting the thumb on the scale, but give me your assessment of what you think is happening and whether it's a problem or not. >> There were many similar allegations in the lead up to the 2015 election when the Liberals were trying to fill in their slate, and they had the star candidates that they wanted to save winnable ridings for. I think on the Conservative side, there has always been this feeling among the membership that the party is really run by the grassroots and that there are rules that are set up and that the party will abide by the rules. And I think what is making a lot of waves is because the rules are not or appear not to have been followed. And the party is not incentivized to tell people why this is going. And they also want to keep people selling memberships because they want those memberships to turn into donors and keep the party growing. So there's disenchantment on that side. Political parties are a key part of our democracy, but they are run as private clubs despite the fact that they get $70 million in campaign election expenses refunded by the taxpayer, that they get about $25 million, maybe a slight little bit more in terms of tax credit support, annually every year. And yet they you know, if there's a privacy breach of our information that the party holds, they don't really need to tell anybody about it. So there are, there are many problems with the way political parties organized their options, their contests. There are several options to fix it, but none of the political parties want to hand this over to Elections Canada or a third party or give any of their power away. And that's why I think it's unlikely that we see any reform. >> Rosemary: Chantal, we've talked about nominations before, what I think the difference here is these are people who want to be candidates that are being told no, you're off the table, even though they had sold memberships, for instance. >> They're not only being told that they're off the table, they're being told that they're disqualified for obscure reasons that are not provided to them, which is a shabby way to treat people who actually are your own supporters, and who want to join your team. But I totally believe that political leaders should be able to pick some or many members of their team, that it's incumbent for a party that wants to run a government to present the best possible team that he or she can assemble. But I also believe that they should be accountable for wanting to do that by doing it up front. Jean Chrétien got from the Liberal membership the power to appoint candidates, and he did use it. And he didn't apologize for it. And you can say whatever you want about grassroots and local democracy, it still made more sense. And it was a cleaner process them to make believe that you are actually doing the grassroots process, and then finding ways to throw out the people that you don't want once they've worked hard to try to become candidates. >> Rosemary: Yeah, and that's the part that's damaging for the Conservatives, Andrew, both Althia and Chantal have identified it there. It's that they, they are a party of the grassroots. They give them a lot of attention during conventions to come up with policy. And then if these kinds of things happen, it sort of blows up in their face a little bit. >> Well, I'm all for transparency. But I also don't actually believe that the leader should choose the M.P.s. I think the M.P. should choose the leader. We were talking earlier about how insignificant M.P.s have become, how insignificant Parliament has become as the representative of the people, a not insignificant matter. Well, the founding point of that, the starting point of that is the way in which we nominate, the way that which we choose the candidates. If we want to start fixing parliament and making Parliament a relevant place again, we got to start looking at the nomination races and if that weren't urgent before, the stuff that we've learned coming out of the foreign interference inquiry,

it makes it absolutely imperative because now it's not just a local thugs fixing races, it's foreign thugs. >> Rosemary: I'm Rosemary Barton. Thank you for watching. [ ] >> Deana: newfoundland welcomes . >> Deana: newfoundland welcomes home the remains of an unknown soldier who fought in world one war. >>> Trespass notices go up at university of toronto. Protesters there have until monday to clear out or face consequences. >>> Toronto police and the hate crime forces unit are investigating after a shot early saturday morning at a jewish girls' school. [ ] >> Deana: hello. Deana sumanac-johnson. We begin in newfoundland and labrador where a casket arrived from beaumont-hamel, france where he was killed in 1916 in the battle of the somme. >> I'm from saskatchewan, and I had no idea this was happening. I think it's pretty cool. >> I had no idea this was happening. It's a very proud moment. >> Reporter: newfoundland, and now newfoundland and labrador was not part of canada at that time, so it's a very distinct very important timetor the province. >> I think it's -- for the province. >> I think it's good that people here now have a place to go and pay their respects. >> I just had a moment during your question. I actually have an uncle who died in world war I and I'm buried in france. >> Deana: and in the war in ukraine, ukrainians are dealing with a russian guided missile strike in a crowded hardware store. Ukrainian officials say two russian guided bombs hit the store, killing two people and injuring dozens more. Several more people were injured in a missile strike in a residential area. Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky called it another demonstration of russian madness. Zelensky offered his sympathies to the victims' families and says ukraine needs help from western leaders to beef up air defence systems which has been the target of russian attacks for weeks. Russian officials say there was also an attack by ukraine inside their borders. >> There's a lot of attacks that are going to take place physically and diplomatecally. >> Reporter: there's a summit next month in switzerland that russia will not be present. >> Both sides are positioning themselves into a better negotiating position, if you will. >> Reporter: the international conference in june is set to be in sweden, but russia's --

russia says any talks without ukraine present is a waste of time. >> Deana: word of a new diplomatic push in the israel war with hamas began to leak out when prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his government would defy a court order and press on with the war in gaza. Now with fighting in its 34 week, pressure is growing on the netanyahu government domestically. This was the scene in tel aviv as many people, including family members of those in captivity, say new negotiations need to take place. >> Reporter: what we've seen the last few hours is there were these meetings in paris between the C.I.A. chief, the israeli mossad chief, and the qatari prime minister. Next week, there's going to be talks between the same parties and egypt, and then hamas will be brought in. It's significant also because of the i.c.j., the international court of justice of israel to stop fighting and particularly -- particularly in gaza. The health ministry in gaza, hamas run, they say there's been dozens more deaths of palestinians, so if there were to be talks and if there was another way to solve this issue, it would be very welcome. >> Deana: journalist irris mackler in jerusalem.

>>> Students at the university of toronto in pro-palestinian encampments have been issued a warning to leave by monday at 5:00 p.m., but students say they are going to stick around. >> U.F.T. knows how to bargain. They bargain with unions on campus all the time. The first win offer cannot be the final offer, so we're preparing orur counteroffer so hopefully we'll be able to present that at the next meeting on sunday. >> Deana: protesters that don't leave by 5:00 P.M. on monday could face consequences, including a five-year suspension and expulsion. >>> Meanwhile, some pro-palestinian university encampments are coming to an end. On saturday, students in hamilton packed up after reaching a deal with McMASTER university. >> This morning, we are disbanding the camp and pack up. >> Reporter: this university student didn't want to reveal his full name out of fear for being retaliated against for those who aren't in favour of the encampment. >> If they weren't willing to hear us out or if we weren't willing to negotiate, none of this would have happened. >> Reporter: McMASTER has made several concessions, including inviting students to a meeting about its investment strategy and annual disclosure of all investments. >> We're going to make sure we hold the university responsible to stay responsible for the demands they committed to. >> Deana: in graduation ceremonies, valedictorian speeches are part of the ceremony, but one speech garnered viral reaction on-line. Remarks by a university of manitoba med school graduate are at the heart of this story. Dr. Gem newman urged graduates to speak out on the israel-hamas war as well as the actions of israel in gaza. Those condemning the remarks were earnest rady, the donor of the largest donation in the university's history. He called the speech "hate and lies." . Newman responded by saying it's ironic that demanding a ceasefire and calling for the rights of humans is considered hateful. >> Universities have faced major cutbacks from the public sector over the last couple of decades and are increasingly reliant on these things, and that's why they're taking this position. I think it's not particularly controversial to call for a ceasefire, and the donor has the right to withdraw that contribution. The problem is there's a power imbalance here and that the university really requires the funding, and so the honour gets more priority in this conversation. >> Deana: toronto police are looking for two suspects after finding evidence of gunfire at a jewish elementary school. The investigation began after a report of a bullet in the window for the jewish school for girls. Just after 5:00 a.m., two occupants in a vehicle pulled up and fired a gun towards it. >> The integrated task force is

the lead investigator on this, however, we have the support of the hate crimes unit, as well. One of the questions that people are asking is, is this a hate crime or is this a terrorist act? What I'm going to say is it's too early to saw that. We're not going to ignore this and what the target of the shooting was, but at the same time, it would be premature to react to that at this point. >> Deana: the prime minister has put out a statement, calling this a despicable act of cowardice. >>> Microgroups and their supporters protested saturday in montreal. They're demanding a faster pace by the federal government on its commitment to regularize the status of undocumented workers. >> Reporter: outside justin trudeau's riding office, community groups gathered, criticizing the federal government's work to regularize the status of undocumented workers. >> We want to stay here. >> Reporter: the federal liberals pledged in 2021 to explore ways of regularizing status of undocumented workers, but that study is on going. In the meantime, they say, immigrants are suffering. >> They work below minimum wage, sometimes working 50, 60, 70 hours a week. Sometimes they face even not being paid. [speaking Spanish language] >> Reporter: in a statement sent to cbc news, immigrations, refugees can't refugees canada says it's looking at the situation. >> On the behest of, like, a faucet, when we need more healthcare workers when we need more construction workers, when they need, but actually, on the basis of human values and solidarity. >> Reporter: canada's immigration marc miller has said that he's on track to present a proposal from his-- to his fellow cabinet members next month. >> Deana: a town in northeastern saskatchewan has declared a state of emergency and people there are unable to leave. Heavy roads and washed out the only road to and from the village. The mayor says essentials like milk, bread, baby formula, and prescription medications are in short supply. Community leaders are calling for emergency meetings with the provincial and federal governments.

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