Jean Charest on Huffington Post Canada

It's Super Easy To Hide A Carbon Tax..

2013-04-18T12:34:28Z

Former Quebec Premier Jean Charest and an unlikely Republican politician-turned-environmentalist are among the people predicting that Canada will even...

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Quebec Liberals Set To Choose New Leader

2013-03-17T04:05:10Z

CP UPDATE: Philippe Couillard chosen to replace Jean Charest as Quebec Liberal leader.

MONTREAL - Quebec Liberals are getting set to choose their...

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Quebec Liberals Say Goodbye To Charest

2013-03-16T20:59:05Z

MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Jean Charest took a final bow on the political stage on Saturday by making a passionate plea for national unity and r...

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Supriya Dwivedi: Will Montreal Students Live Happily Ever After?

2013-03-06T17:44:40Z

After the second protest in the last two weeks following a provincial summit on higher education, everything about Montreal's current spring weather seemed to have year-old Maple Spring undertones to it, including violence, arrests and injuries. The plight of student debt, post graduation underemployment, and rising housing costs are all unarguably quite legitimate burdens faced by my generation. Will free tuition as demanded by the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ) and its followers solve these zeitgeist conundrums? Unlikely.

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Quebec Liberals Tackle Corruption In Second Debate

2013-01-20T16:08:28Z

The three candidates for Quebec's Liberal Party leadership took part in the second of five debates to determine who will succeed Jean Charest.
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Hopefuls To Replace Charest Face Off In First Debate

2013-01-13T15:51:29Z

MONTREAL - The three candidates vying for the leadership of the Quebec Liberals offered up proposals aimed at reviving the party during a debate in Mo...

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Charest Gets A New Job

2013-01-10T11:47:46Z

MONTREAL - Jean Charest, who made the Quebec economy his priority during his nine years as premier, settled into a new career Thursday specializing in...

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Tim Knight: Watching the Watchdog: Don't Mess With Mesley

2012-11-20T16:27:38Z

You wouldn't ever want to answer your front door to find Wendy Mesley holding a microphone there -- right next to a CBC camera flashing its little red light. Last Sunday, some of the old pre-perky Mesley came back. The following is the last part of of Mesley's interview with Jacques Duchesneau, the former Montreal police chief.

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PQ Bringing Home The Budget

2012-11-20T04:00:08Z

QUEBEC - The new Parti Quebecois government is promising to pick a fight with Ottawa over federal payments, arguing the province is on track to be sho...

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Livin' La Legal Loca?

2012-10-28T19:02:08Z

QUEBEC - It may not have been his number one job choice, but former Quebec premier Jean Charest has decided to return to practising law.Sources tell T...

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Will 'Donnie Brasco' Take The Stand In Quebec Corruption Probe?

2012-09-17T04:00:11Z

MONTREAL - The underworld will be placed under the microscope this fall when Quebec's corruption inquiry begins probing links between the construction...

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Daniel D. Veniez: You Can So Teach an Old (Liberal) Dog New Tricks

2012-09-17T00:00:50Z

Why is it that some in the Liberal Party of Canada are using the disturbing and polarizing language of ageism? It has become open season on the "old guard". Older people seem to be framed as out of touch and constitutionally unable to cope with change.

Of course, fresh thinking and new energy is indeed vital to any organization. However, "fresh" doesn't necessarily mean young. To me, "new" and "fresh" has nothing to do with age and everything to do with mindset, values and sincerity of purpose.

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Tony Kondaks: Politics and Violence: A Familiar Mix for Canada

2012-09-07T12:15:48Z

"Never, never will I accept that Quebec is associated with violence," Quebec Premier-elect Pauline Marois declared in the wake of the recent election night shooting.Mme. Marois is not alone. Across the country, elected officials and pundits of all political stripes tell us that Canada is a "peaceable kingdom." The reality is quite different and it is a subject which we have been reluctant to even broach, let alone discuss.

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Noah Richler: Québeckers Don't Want Separation, We Want Better

2012-09-07T08:24:39Z

If ever it really did look like Québec was coming close to separation, I'd move back in a flash. There'd be no way I'd let the province secede and me be without my home and the Péquistes without the thorn of me in their side. I'd also be there because I like what Québeckers are demanding.

But separation isn't going to happen. Québeckers want a better society, a better representation of their views. We could do worse than look for an example to a territory that, using whatever tools circumstances have placed in its reach, demands the change that elections can bring.

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Conrad Black: Pauline Marois Is More Quebec's Prisoner Than its Leader

2012-09-06T11:07:34Z

The brilliance of the result of the Quebec election is in the rejection of the government without any real endorsement of the Parti Quebecois or its program. The apparent, emergent premier, the desperately unimpressive Pauline Marois, a bag lady where some distinguished statesmen have preceded her, is, politically speaking, a prisoner in her own body.

The PQ barely squeezed ahead of the Liberals, in votes and parliamentary strength, while fudging whether they would even hold a referendum on an ambiguous question. This is a cruel, vegetative state for Ms. Marois, a strident separatist. This brilliant election changed governments without breaking any furniture or burning any bridges.

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Pierre Luc Brisson: Why the Parti Quebecois Has Far From Won

2012-09-05T16:17:38Z

The Parti Quebecois' slim victory has a bitter taste this morning, made even worse because of the sad and deplorable events in Montreal. This victory does not give the PQ the margin it needs to carry out its platform. Yesterday's disappointing results reflect well the mood of a very unenthusiastic population and separatist electorate that are still struggling to see themselves as part of the party that will form the next government, despite nine years of Liberal rule.

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Toula Foscolos: Can Quebec Move Past its Teenage Angst?

2012-09-05T16:16:26Z

This is no longer the Quebec of the Quiet Revolution. This province is willing to be loud about what it does and does not want. The problem is; it still needs to figure out what it is and what it isn't. And then shots were fired. And we all collectively gasped and came to our senses. Today, we hopefully all take a step back.

There's an existential crisis brewing. A province realizing it's not necessarily the open, welcoming, progressive place it thought it was; a people grappling with questions of identity, inclusiveness. This is a society in real flux. A society that is, in some ways, holding on to the last vestiges of a past that defined what it became, but can no longer allow it to become what it must. Quebec is experiencing major growing pains.

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HE QUITS

2012-09-05T16:00:03Z

Quebec Liberal Leader Jean Charest has announced his resignation, bringing a long, turbulent career as premier to a close.

"The decision was unanim...

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Natalia Yanchak: The Game of Politics Shouldn't Claim Lives

2012-09-05T13:19:41Z

During Pauline Marois' victory speech in Quebec last night, gun shots were fired -- an alleged "assassination" attempt on the outspoken leader, as a 62-year-old armed with a handgun and an assault rifle "lost his shit" outside the venue. Marois was unharmed but sadly someone actually died in this vapid protest. We each are responsible for embracing the idea that there is a place for everyone in society, and that to fight for fierce nationalism or singularly-minded patriotism is a dangerous and unnecessary battle to wage.

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Samuel Getachew: Say "À Bientôt" Not "Au Revoir" to Jean Charest

2012-09-05T03:59:44Z

The loss for the Quebec Liberals and its leader, Jean Charest, was a political low moment last night. Indeed it is my hope that Jean Charest will still be involved in public life. His undying affection for federalism, conviction for equality and eloquence is still a service needed by Quebec and Canada.

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Jo Perron-Simpson: Post-Shooting, Let's Forget Politics

2012-09-05T10:28:19Z

Last night during Pauline Marois' victory speech a tragic shooting left us all speechless. This is the moment where one needs to pause, not the moment to start pointing fingers at whomever or whatever. It is the moment where we must stop, take a step back from the electoral fervor, forget our political and historic baggage to mourn the death of an innocent man who was only doing his job, who wasn't even there for a political rally, but simply to earn a living.

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TWEETS: Could There Be A Coalition?

2012-09-04T21:10:10Z

A CAQ and Liberal coalition in Quebec? That's one of the talking points unfolding on social media as election watchers digested the results that gave ...

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Brian McKenna: If Quebec's Election Was a Carnival, Charest Would Be in the Dunk Tank

2012-09-04T07:48:09Z

Over the course of the Quebec election, every time Jean Charest thought he was changing the conversation to Medicare or Le Plan Nord, the CAQ's Jacques Duchesneau would make another accusation and grab the headlines. But last week many thought the ex-police chief went too far.

Duchesneau said he had a list of Charest's cabinet ministers who had accepted favours from a construction baron named Tony Accurso. Charest demanded the ex -cop supply names. The ex-cop played coy and refused. How could Charest possibly defend himself and his party against that kind of slander?

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Heading To The Polls

2012-09-04T06:24:50Z

Quebec voter turnout is up compared to the last provincial election, despite a few power outages and temporary closures at polling stations in Montrea...

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J.J. McCullough: Quebec, You Are Doomed, Dooooomed!!

2012-09-03T00:00:39Z

It's been five gruelling weeks of symptoms and suffering but Canada's lengthy bout of Quebec Election Fever is set to finally break. It will bring an end at last to the ostentatiously cynical editorials from the Canadian punditocracy, all of whom were eager to spout various theories about why there were no good choices in this race between three equally hopeless parties led by three equally loser dinguses. Debt! Incompetence! Dubious loyalty to Canada! It matters not who you vote for, puny Quebeckers, either way your province is doomed, dooooomed!

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