Cauchon Claims Trudeau’s Stance About Quebec’s National Unity is Obsolete

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Even though Justin Trudeau is most commonly deemed as the most youngest and enthusiastic Liberal leadership contender, his rival Martin Cauchon claims that the front runner is nothing but a relic of the past on the issue of Quebec. He implied that Trudeau ridicules the suggestions of attempting to finally secure Quebec’s signature on the Constitution, which is a decision he claims because of his father, Pierre Trudeau, assertion in 1982 over the objections of the province’s separatist government.

However, Cauchon claims that even though that was the right answer in the 1980s and 1990s, but it is not a good enough any longer. Cauchon informed the media, during an extensive interview, that Trudeau’s response to the national unity question amounts to “the good old answers that people used to give” in the wake of failed constitutional negotiations. But Cauchon claims “now it’s not the time to go back with those, I would say, empty answers that a lot of people have been using in the past,” he said. “I say it’s time, actually, to have a closer look at the situation.”

Cauchon elaborated, that he feels, that the federal government shall adopt a more open, flexible, co-operative approach to federalism. He mentioned that “when (Quebecers) look at us, the Liberal Party of Canada, they look at a party that always stands for the Ottawa-knows-best type of approach,” and “this is something they don’t like in Quebec and, as a matter of fact, they don’t like it in most of the provinces.”