martin cauchon speaks

I managed to listen to Martin Cauchon speak. His talk at UBC was about the same-sex marriage bill. He had many of the politician mannerisms but seemed genuinely committed to the idea of equality, passionate about the idea, and it showed in his speech. I got a chance outside the hall to ask him about the whole upsurge of separatist sentiment in Quebec and how nobody in the federal government or outside quebec seems to be recognising what is happening. He agreed that the Liberal Party in Quebec was having problems and agreed that Gilles Duceppe's move is definitely on the cards. But, I guess as a loyal liberal, he urged the support of Charest (the former Progressive Cosnervatives party leader) saying he has two years and he is a good premier etc., etc., - the usual party solidarity.
On the whole, I have to say that even though I'm very NDP I like this guy and if the liberals have to have a hope in hell of putting someone charismatic enough to challenge good old Gilles, they better start looking around for someone like Cauchon. I guess that would mean our prime minister will have to start to re-integrating the left-wing liberals that he so happily turfed out a year ago.