Chantal Hebert

I would try to find pressure points.

that would in the end translate into, if not a broken consensus, increasing pressure on the Canadian government and the Canadian position.

And how would I do that?

I would do that by opening my door to premiers like Christine Fréchette, thinking from all that I'm briefed on about Quebec,

This is one place where there have in the past been fractures between Quebec and Canada.

Those of us who are on this side of the debate know that that's not going to happen.

Mark Carney is the most popular politician in Quebec.

Christine Fréchette is going in an election.

There is no mood here for Quebec freelancing on this issue.

Maybe Alberta Premier Daniel Smith can, from her perspective.

But that wasn't going to happen.

But if you're Greer, you know, it's worth a shot.

And then you think...

Well, these energy executives and those conservative MPs, they have no reason to stay within the tent and not shoot inside the tent and tell Mark Carney, get on with it.

There are good deals for us.

If you were going to identify one industry and one province that has a real interest in getting along because it might work, it would be Alberta and the energy industry.

and the Conservative Party that has its base there.

So you kind of play nice to industries that are more likely to disagree with the Canadian approach and more likely to say, let's get a deal.

Kuzma might not work out.

The auto industry might not do better.