The Megablast Podcast

Roy Eappen: Quebec Conservative Party candidate calls for radical health reform, which includes empowering non-doctors. Why are qualified doctors driving Uber? He is calling for constructive decentralization. Is this code for going private, that the well-to-do will be first in line and everyone else has to wait it out in emergency rooms bursting at the seams? Not so, he insists, and explains in this podcast that cross examines his basic assumptions. Do his claims that the media is trying to cancel the conservative party stand up to scrutiny.

Kristian Gravenor: Election Quebec. Beware of the tyranny of the majority writes de Tocqueville (Democracy in America). Are the English getting hammered again? Can we expect another exodus to the rest of Canada? Is Legault drunk on power? Do the Liberals have to reinvent themselves? How important is charisma in the digital age? Note: this is the first in our regular meetings regarding all things Montreal, Québécois, and Canadian. 

Christian Boutin: CAQ's craven Covid policy and the inexcusable death count. Is Pierre Polièvre Canada's new hope for freedoms crushed beneath the wheel of Liberal fiat. Trudeau and Trump as two peas in the pod bursting with vanity. Is democracy morping into totalitariansm through the cynical stoking of phony fears as an excuse to introduce autocratic rule. Is this Canada we want? Wouldn't it have been better had the French prevailed in 1837? Jason and Christian vivisect Canada, leaving a trail of guts and gore and dashed hopes guilded in transcendental insight and analysis.

Andrew Caddell: Founder of the Parti Canadien du Québec, Andrew has been on the front line of the linguistic divide for many years. He's calling for fairness and inclusivity as opposed to the all is fair in the endless, partisan language wars that make the rest of Canada sick and tired of petty Quebec politics. Jason and Andrew discuss Quebec identity from an English point of view. Can an anglais be a Quebecois or Is it all just a pipe dream without the requisite mother tongue? Why is the iGeneration turned off to separatism? Since July of 2017, he has written a weekly column in the Hill Times (Ottawa) called "With All Due Respect."