For Quebec Liberal leader Charles Milliard, that means his final days on the trail will be spent reminding the 70 per cent of voters who don\u2019t currently want a referendum that his party could be the federalist alternative with the CAQ in a freefall<\/a>.<\/p>\n He joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on the latest episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to explain why the Quebec Liberals are \u201cthe most rational people in town.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think that especially given those special circumstances we\u2019re in, given the fact that we are in a referendum campaign and that the CAQ has been disqualifying itself over the past few days \u2014 this is a real debacle \u2014 I\u2019m trying to talk to all Quebecers that do not want a referendum, that do not want to quit Canada, to unify.\u201d<\/p>\n Have you read the Livre Bleu? I\u2019m not sure a lot of Quebecers have.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharles Milliard But Milliard finds himself in a difficult position, where the majority of his support comes from the Montreal area and other parties have come to realize you don\u2019t need Montreal to win an election.<\/p>\n The political neophyte, who is running in the Eastern Townships riding of Orford, brought some issues facing Montrealers to the podcast, such as homelessness.<\/p>\n \u201cI recruited one of the best experts in Quebec by the name of James Hughes, who used to lead Mission Old Brewery. He will be playing obviously a top role in our government,\u201d Milliard said.<\/p>\n He also singled out public transport and business as two priorities for his party.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we need to fix the m\u00e9tro. We need to look at what we\u2019re going to do with the REM de l\u2019Est. There\u2019s still some work to do with the REM connecting to the airport.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to be very helpful with the pharmaceutical sector and aeronautic sector. We have great expertise in Montreal. Those people have been left out in the past years with a policy that was promised and was not executed.\u201d<\/p>\n With only days left to gather support, Milliard is trying to position the Quebec Liberals in a similar way to Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s federal Liberals, as the party of stability in uncertain times. Milliard said the spectre of a referendum now would only hurt trade negotiations with the Donald Trump White House.<\/p>\n \u201cSo the next time, and the last time actually, Quebecers have a say on a potential referendum is Monday. It\u2019s not in three years.\u201d<\/p>\n Milliard then asked the hosts, \u201chave you read the Livre Bleu?\u201d in reference to the 524-page Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois blueprint document for an independent Quebec<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not sure a lot of Quebecers have.\u201d<\/p>\n The Corner Booth is also available on The Gazette\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a> and on Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Quebec election campaign is in the final stretch. Right now, it\u2019s looking like the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-916590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"0928](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0928-city-cornerbooth-podcast-9770_305498679.jpg\")
Dave Sidaway \/Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tQuebec Liberal Party leader<\/p>\n![\"0928](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0928-city-cornerbooth-podcast-9871_305498683.jpg\")
Dave Sidaway \/Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n