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Life's gone out of federal politics in Quebec

The result is an environment that is almost completely devoid of passion about and faith in the conventional political process.

Jake Wright, The Hill Times

MONTREAL—Only a decade ago, no federal Liberal leader could have dropped in on a French-language Quebec university campus without having to struggle with thorny unity questions, at least not without packing the room with docile party loyalists.

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Life's gone out of federal politics in Quebec

The result is an environment that is almost completely devoid of passion about and faith in the conventional political process.

Jake Wright, The Hill Times

MONTREAL—Only a decade ago, no federal Liberal leader could have dropped in on a French-language Quebec university campus without having to struggle with thorny unity questions, at least not without packing the room with docile party loyalists.

  

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Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney
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Liberal MP Geoff Regan
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Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and freelance reporter Richard Cleroux
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CTV's Craig Oliver, Global's Tom Clark and CTV's Kevin Newman
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Liberal Interim Leader Bob Rae
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