Ten years after he left active politics following nearly a decade as Liberal premier of Quebec, Jean Charest is a candidate for the leadership of the
Conservative Party whose Progressive Conservative forerunner he led out of the wilderness during the 1990s. Policy Editor L. Ian MacDonald spoke with Charest in Montreal on June 16th.Mr. Charest thank you for doing this and if we could begin the conversation with your reflections on Canadian unity. Beginning with the famous referendum speech of October 27, 1995.
always believed that this was a measure of extreme exception that you only use in extreme circumstances .Mr. Bouchard used to talk about the need for “winning conditions”, as he called them, before there would be another referendum. And in all the years since, the winning conditions have never been in place. Largely because even when you lost in 1998, I think you still won a plurality of the vote.
There’s no reason why people who reach 62, 63, retiring if they are in very good health and want to continue. How do we adapt our labour markets to allow these individuals to continue to do what they want to do and not be punished financially because they continue to stay in the labour market? That’s the kind of forward thinking I want to bring to policies in the country, to the future of the country. On the health side, I think we are at an inflection point now.
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