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Mr. Premier...
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Ms. Saint-Amour,
what a pleasure to meet you!
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The pleasure is all mine.
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Please.
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Thank you.
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I took the liberty of ordering the wine.
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I love your magazine.
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You're too kind.
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Don't miss the next issue,
our 5th anniversary special.
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Mr. Premier...
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We have here a Château Latour,
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an elegant wine
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bursting with freshness, exuberance
and powerful tannins.
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Just like you.
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Château Latour, a grand cru.
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Here's to you.
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To me?
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I'm intrigued.
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Custom dictates that we wait till
the end of the meal to discuss business,
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but I'd like to get
straight to the point.
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Arlette Saint-Amour, I need you.
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I want Culture to emerge from the shadows.
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And to be frank,
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I feel my government
isn't exactly hip anymore.
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Am I wrong?
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You don't really want me to answer that?
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Please do.
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We get a vague impression
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that your government is sitting
in a wax museum.
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Well, with your charm, flair and audacity,
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you have everything it takes
to make us more youthful.
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You can't be serious.
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I need a woman like you
as head of Culture.
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Me, a minister?
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I...
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I have a seat opening up.
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And as we say in politics,
the stars have aligned,
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both for me and for you.
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Bon appétit.
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Take your time
thinking it over, but...
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But you need an answer
as soon as possible.
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Mr. Premier.
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I've thought it over.
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It's a yes.
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Do you always think so fast?
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It depends. Often, it's after.
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Oh my God! What have I done?
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In a democratic monarchy,
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all paths lead to court.
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All courtiers will tell you,
with emotion,
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that they remember
their first day at the Palace.
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The day they
leave their life behind
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for a new form of existence:
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life at court!
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Now for Quebec news,
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Arlette Saint-Amour was sworn in today
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as our province's 30th minister of culture.
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Following a surprise entry into politics,
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Arlette Saint-Amour shared her reasons
for accepting the position.
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It's the best day of my life!
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Today, I'm putting myself at the service
of the grandest lady of all:
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culture.
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A seasoned journalist, Arlette Saint-Amour
started her career at Elle-Québec.
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At 30 years old, she created F,
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a women's magazine that shattered
sales records from its first issue.
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Tackling issues from anorexia
to female genital mutilation in Africa,
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Arlette Saint-Amour is a fighter.
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Last spring, she was named
a Great Montrealer,
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to honor her impressive career in fashion.
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I'm sorry to say it, gentlemen,
but the 21st century will be led by women!
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Ambitious, intelligent
and passionate women.
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Women with great minds
and formidable brainpower,
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proud to have tits and an ass!
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An outspokenness we hope she will
bring with her to the National Assembly.
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The Initiation
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What does she know about the ministry?
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About heritage?
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Ask me how I'm doing.
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Three ministers in two years:
a lunatic, a loser and now a fashion icon.
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It's unbelievable.
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I love women, but not as their bodyguard.
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In an instant, you become their slave.
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Excuse me.
May I have your attention, please?
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She's on her way.
Everyone in the hall, now.
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Thank you.
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OK.
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Now that we've taken the time
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to complain about
our new leader's ignorance,
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we're going to have to accept it.
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And show our new captain we can behave.
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So, repeat after me, please.
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"Welcome to Culture, Madam Minister."
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"Welcome to Culture..."
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OK! You got the snide remarks
out of your system.
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It's done. Get over it.
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Smile.
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I can finally put a face to a name.
Pierre-Olivier Caron, right?
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That's right, your chief of staff.
Nice to meet you.
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Francine Beaulieu, Madam Minister,
your general secretary.
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Laurent Deschamps, my press secretary.
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Hello!
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Murielle Mérisy,
Deputy Minister of Culture.
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Hello.
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Paul Papineau, Associate Deputy Minister
of Heritage Affairs.
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Julie Quin, crown corporations.
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Luc Quintal, archeologist
for First Nations Cultural Development.
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Louis Thibault, Religious Heritage.
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Carole Gingras, Madam Minister,
your bodyguard.
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Call me Arlette. It'll be easier.
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Hey, Carole!
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Can you do me a favor?
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Could you walk my dog?
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I left him with the guard at Door 6,
but I'm worried.
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Of course.
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Thank you. You're too kind.
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Your office, Madam Minister.
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It's big.
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Yes, it's big.
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It lacks a little punch.
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It lacks the budget, Madam Minister.
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Culture is broke.
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Your briefings.
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Briefing?
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Your daily pittance, Madam Minister.
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So, we have the National archives...
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Geographical Names Board...
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French Language Council.
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Religious Heritage, First Nations Culture.
There you have it.
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Thank you.
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Mr. Deschamps...
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Here is the party platform.
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Your wheelie suitcase.
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Your cell phone.
A second one as backup.
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And a recorder for
the minister's press conferences.
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This stuff isn't a gift from the Queen.
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It's so we can reach you 24 hours a day.
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In the city, in the country,
wherever you go, bring it.
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You go pee-pee, bring it.
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It follows you to bed too.
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- Pee-pee?
- Pee-pee.
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Is that clear?
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Crystal.
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I want to know everything about your life.
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Everything.
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Money, drugs, sex,
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anything that could end up on social media
and get us in shit.
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What is your financial situation?
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Call my accountant. He does my taxes.
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She doesn't know.
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You lost your mother?
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Breast cancer.
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And sex?
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I have lovers.
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Lovers?
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Lovers, as in one-night stands,
or as in team sports?
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As in no strings.
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Jesus! Are you always like this?
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Must get depressing at your place.
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I have a girlfriend in Paris,
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and I've been up for the delegation
for ages,
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but there's always a new minister
I have to teach how the machine works.
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Or keep on a short leash.
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I've never been on a leash.
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Politics isn't fashion.
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Fashion is cutthroat too.
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In your world,
journalists want to see some skin.
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In politics,
they want to skin you alive.
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Politics...
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is a big stage, Madam Minister.
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If you lose your footing,
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I have to dive into the cold water
to save you.
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So...
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let me ask you a question.
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Your role as minister of culture,
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how do you envision it?
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I want artists to remember me
as a minister
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who was willing to
turn Quebec upside down to defend them.
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The ACC is out.
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Jesus! Already?
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The ACC? What's that?
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We've dealt with incompetent ministers
for 12 years,
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but this is the cherry on top.
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What possessed the premier
to put a starlet in Culture?
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We're sick of seeing selfies
of ministers,
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who just get photographed
on the red carpet at premieres.
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If they put some airhead in Finance,
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how do you think
the business community would react?
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Artists deserve an intelligent,
articulate and visionary minister
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to defend our interests in the Council,
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our rights in Ottawa,
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and to ensure the survival of who we are,
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the only French-speaking population
in North America.
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Culture...
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culture isn't an accessory
you pin onto a ball gown,
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Madam Minister,
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any more than it is the latest fashion.
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Welcome to Culture, Madam Minister.
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What is the ACC?
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The Arts and Culture Coalition.
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And what do they want?
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Your head.
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That was a short honeymoon.
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We'd be more welcome
at the Status of Women.
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Valmont Faucher is a pretentious
little theatre nerd
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who thinks fashion is bullshit.
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That your phone?
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Laurent Deschamps.
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Where's Sissi?
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We needed to get some air.
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Good. I thought she was dead.
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Shit!
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It's time.
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OK.
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It's all in there.
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200 questions covering
every topic in Culture.
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Starting now,
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you're living in a man's world.
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You mean the locker room?
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The questions period is a baptism by fire.
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Good luck.
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Why do I feel like
I'm being thrown into a lion's den?
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Ever wonder why they
never throw a lioness into the den?
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Not since this morning.
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Because a lioness doesn't just roar.
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She kills.
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Go, sweetie.
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Please welcome your new MNA
for Anne-Hébert.
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Welcome.
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Thank you.
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Come.
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Go ahead.
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On my side. Go on.
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Jeez.
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It's good luck!
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Thank you.
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It's going to be fine.
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Hi.
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Alexandre Ducros,
staffer for the finance minister.
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Laurent Deschamps, press secretary
for the minister of culture.
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Mr. Leader of the Opposition.
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This time...
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it's gone too far, Madam President.
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The government has hit rock bottom.
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We've all heard the artists' anger.
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The premier could have surprised us.
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But no.
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He chooses incompetence every time.
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A pom-pom girl in Culture!
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Silence! Silence!
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Please.
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Please.
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Need I remind
the Leader of the Opposition
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that the word "pom-pom"
is not permitted here.
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Mr. Leader of the Opposition,
please withdraw your remarks.
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I withdraw the "pom-pom."
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You're terrible.
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Culture is not inherited,
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but won.
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When will Quebec finally get a Malraux
in this chamber?
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Malraux...
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I'll respond.
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What the hell is she doing?
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Pinch me, I'm dreaming!
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What century is this?
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Madam Minister!
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Please be seated.
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Mr. Premier...
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The pom-pom girl the
Leader of the Opposition is referring to
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became a stylist, journalist,
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founded a magazine...
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And fought against suits like you
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who still dismiss women as pom-pom girls.
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It's my turn to ask a question.
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How many ministers were actually ministers
before becoming one?
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Nobody is born a minister, sir.
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You become one.
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Madam President,
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need I remind the minister of culture
my question was addressed to the premier?
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And my answer was addressed to you.
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She's crazy, but she's got balls.
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Madam Minister!
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Such audacity!
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Such eloquence!
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Party allegiances
make us exaggerate sometimes.
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Welcome to our ranks.
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Madam Minister...
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Madam Minister! Over here!
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Pierre-Luc François, News Flash.
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00:22:58,754 --> 00:23:01,548
How did it feel to be in the chamber
for the first time?
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I had butterflies in my stomach,
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00:23:04,676 --> 00:23:08,597
like the first time you enter any room
not knowing what to expect.
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00:23:13,477 --> 00:23:15,979
Philippe Bourguignon,
6 o'clock news.
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00:23:16,104 --> 00:23:19,525
What would you say to those
who just see you as a starlet?
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That I hope to make them drop the "let."
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00:23:26,323 --> 00:23:30,827
Christine Petit, Madam Minister,
journalist with Quebec News.
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Yes?
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Stylist, journalist,
director of a fashion magazine,
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and now minister.
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Yep!
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What's life without surprises?
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00:23:42,673 --> 00:23:45,884
What do you bring to the role
of minister of culture?
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A fresh take.
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That's it?
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00:23:51,682 --> 00:23:55,561
Every minister of culture before you
had a fresh take.
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00:23:56,770 --> 00:23:59,022
It's been the same old speech for 25 years.
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00:23:59,147 --> 00:24:03,026
But coming from you, a woman who fought
for her space in the fashion world,
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we expected something more original.
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00:24:08,282 --> 00:24:10,492
It's very disappointing.
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I'm disappointed.
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Yes, Madam Minister...
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Let me rephrase the question,
Madam Minister.
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What will you do differently in Culture?
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Get artists the $100 million
the finance minister promised them
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in the last election.
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00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,578
Fucking hell!
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00:25:04,755 --> 00:25:05,714
Laurent Deschamps.
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00:25:05,839 --> 00:25:07,466
Congratulations!
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00:25:07,591 --> 00:25:11,053
$100 million for Culture!
We couldn't have asked for more.
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00:25:11,178 --> 00:25:15,057
If your goal was to make an enemy
of the finance minister,
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mission accomplished.
321
00:25:16,683 --> 00:25:20,312
By the way,
how did you come up with $100 million?
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00:25:20,437 --> 00:25:23,065
It's clearly written
in the party platform.
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00:25:23,190 --> 00:25:26,401
It's written in the Bible
that Jesus rose from the dead.
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00:25:26,527 --> 00:25:28,820
This is madness. You have to control her.
325
00:25:28,946 --> 00:25:30,906
She's like a chicken
with her head cut off.
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00:25:31,031 --> 00:25:33,909
This is politics.
It's no laughing matter.
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00:25:34,034 --> 00:25:37,538
Now send me a press release
that says you were wrong.
328
00:25:37,663 --> 00:25:40,832
And never again will you shovel your shit
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00:25:40,958 --> 00:25:42,167
in Finance's yard.
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00:25:42,292 --> 00:25:45,045
You dump it on the other side
of the chamber, not ours.
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00:25:45,170 --> 00:25:46,713
From now on, Laurent,
332
00:25:46,839 --> 00:25:50,342
I expect you to put words in her mouth, OK?
333
00:25:50,467 --> 00:25:53,720
Master the art of saying
the same damn thing 20 times
334
00:25:53,846 --> 00:25:55,347
without seeming repetitive.
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00:25:55,472 --> 00:25:56,932
You know? 1-2-3-4.
336
00:25:57,057 --> 00:25:59,101
4-3-2-1. 2-3-4-1.
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00:25:59,226 --> 00:26:00,853
Got it?
338
00:26:04,314 --> 00:26:06,817
Today was a complete failure.
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00:26:10,779 --> 00:26:14,700
What sin did I commit in life
to deserve this?
340
00:26:19,204 --> 00:26:20,205
Listen...
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00:26:20,330 --> 00:26:21,456
No way am I retracting!
342
00:26:23,584 --> 00:26:26,628
If I've learned anything in life,
it's never to back down.
343
00:26:26,753 --> 00:26:29,423
Don't waste your time
writing something I won't sign.
344
00:26:29,548 --> 00:26:31,008
Fuck the finance minister!
345
00:26:40,684 --> 00:26:41,643
Exactly.
346
00:26:41,768 --> 00:26:44,229
No, you're right.
Politics takes balls.
347
00:26:44,354 --> 00:26:47,649
You might be sexy, but you can't have sex
with the entire population.
348
00:26:47,774 --> 00:26:49,067
You think?
349
00:26:50,027 --> 00:26:51,695
Why did they put her in Culture?
350
00:26:51,820 --> 00:26:53,363
Not enough gays!
351
00:26:53,488 --> 00:26:54,698
They couldn't find sissies!
352
00:26:54,823 --> 00:26:56,116
It's true.
353
00:26:56,491 --> 00:26:59,369
If the premier tears his shirt
on the job,
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00:26:59,494 --> 00:27:01,330
someone will be there to mend it.
355
00:27:03,081 --> 00:27:04,124
Forgive him.
356
00:27:04,249 --> 00:27:06,752
Well, we got a little preview
of what to expect.
357
00:27:06,877 --> 00:27:08,921
Arlette, just shut up and look pretty.
358
00:27:09,046 --> 00:27:12,758
Shut your mouth, for Christ's sake.
You can use it for other things.
359
00:27:14,301 --> 00:27:15,260
You're terrible.
360
00:27:15,385 --> 00:27:17,638
- It had to be said.
- It's true.
361
00:27:17,763 --> 00:27:19,515
Now for the weather...
362
00:27:26,438 --> 00:27:33,320
Learning the Rules of the Game
363
00:27:49,461 --> 00:27:50,462
Beautiful evening.
364
00:27:50,587 --> 00:27:52,256
Thank you for the invitation.
365
00:27:53,757 --> 00:27:58,262
Let me introduce you to Léopold Morin,
MNA for Mauricie, our doyen!
366
00:27:58,387 --> 00:27:59,304
Good evening.
367
00:27:59,429 --> 00:28:01,473
Germain Taillefer, MNA for Joliette,
368
00:28:01,598 --> 00:28:03,809
and Marcel Beaulieu, from Rimouski.
369
00:28:03,934 --> 00:28:04,977
Good evening.
370
00:28:05,102 --> 00:28:08,230
Quite the racehorse you found us, Romain.
371
00:28:10,732 --> 00:28:12,276
Arlette Saint-Amour!
372
00:28:12,401 --> 00:28:13,527
Margaret!
373
00:28:15,070 --> 00:28:16,280
You look sublime.
374
00:28:16,405 --> 00:28:18,574
Thank you. Do you still have your gallery?
375
00:28:18,699 --> 00:28:20,200
Yes. But you...
376
00:28:21,034 --> 00:28:22,244
Well done.
377
00:28:22,369 --> 00:28:23,787
We need more women!
378
00:28:26,164 --> 00:28:28,667
Paul! Come.
379
00:28:32,588 --> 00:28:37,676
Arlette, let me introduce my husband,
Paul Girouard, the finance minister.
380
00:28:39,386 --> 00:28:40,929
Surely, you've met before?
381
00:28:41,054 --> 00:28:43,432
I haven't had the honor.
382
00:28:43,557 --> 00:28:44,850
Nice to meet you.
383
00:28:44,975 --> 00:28:45,934
And you.
384
00:28:50,063 --> 00:28:51,356
Photo!
385
00:28:56,278 --> 00:28:57,988
- Mr. Premier...
- Yes.
386
00:28:58,113 --> 00:28:59,364
Thank you.
387
00:29:09,958 --> 00:29:11,877
It's not good for your blood pressure.
388
00:29:12,002 --> 00:29:15,923
Some things are forgivable
when you're starting out in politics...
389
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,968
like interrupting me
in the questions period.
390
00:29:21,136 --> 00:29:23,138
But don't push it.
391
00:29:23,263 --> 00:29:25,516
Politics is a dangerous game.
392
00:29:27,017 --> 00:29:30,187
Best not to make too many enemies
at the start.
393
00:29:32,856 --> 00:29:35,025
And the hardest thing in politics...
394
00:29:36,693 --> 00:29:39,488
is surviving the first hundred days.
395
00:29:47,371 --> 00:29:48,872
Tell me...
396
00:29:50,374 --> 00:29:52,501
Why Arlette Saint-Amour?
397
00:29:52,626 --> 00:29:54,670
Her beauty? Her youth?
398
00:29:55,212 --> 00:29:56,755
Her political virginity?
399
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,882
She's a goddamn novice.
400
00:29:59,007 --> 00:30:02,177
In politics, yes, but not in PR.
401
00:30:02,302 --> 00:30:04,513
We'll be on the news every night.
402
00:30:11,728 --> 00:30:13,605
Oh, that's what you want!
403
00:30:13,730 --> 00:30:16,692
To eclipse the man
who dreams of filling your sneakers.
404
00:30:16,817 --> 00:30:18,360
He's not dreaming anymore.
405
00:30:19,027 --> 00:30:21,989
No way am I letting a fiscal evangelist
take my place.
406
00:30:25,742 --> 00:30:28,954
Valmont, you know I've always
admired your work.
407
00:30:29,079 --> 00:30:33,375
Your mises-en-scène in Dublin, Venice,
408
00:30:34,042 --> 00:30:37,921
and all your work
in experimental theatre, truly.
409
00:30:39,006 --> 00:30:40,215
I love people like you,
410
00:30:40,340 --> 00:30:44,720
who can navigate between the margins
and the establishment.
411
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,102
Never call me an airhead on TV again.
412
00:30:52,603 --> 00:30:56,648
Our dirty laundry,
we air it at home, not in public.
413
00:30:56,773 --> 00:30:58,567
Is that clear?
414
00:31:00,277 --> 00:31:01,778
Valmont...
415
00:31:08,285 --> 00:31:09,828
Do you like opera?
416
00:31:09,953 --> 00:31:10,954
I love opera.
417
00:31:11,663 --> 00:31:15,459
My mother always listened to opera
while sewing her costumes.
418
00:31:15,584 --> 00:31:17,794
Your mother was a seamstress?
419
00:31:19,546 --> 00:31:22,508
Head seamstress for
all the major costume designers.
420
00:31:22,633 --> 00:31:26,053
I spent my youth in the tiara
from La Tosca,
421
00:31:26,178 --> 00:31:28,347
before I even knew the Puccini opera.
422
00:31:30,682 --> 00:31:35,479
And Arlette,
is that from your mother too?
423
00:31:35,896 --> 00:31:37,397
My grandmother.
424
00:31:38,232 --> 00:31:40,234
She loved Arletty.
425
00:31:42,653 --> 00:31:45,614
"Atmosphere, atmosphere!
426
00:31:45,739 --> 00:31:47,658
Do I look like an atmosphere?"
427
00:31:49,493 --> 00:31:53,413
"I'm not beautiful!
I'm alive! That's all."
428
00:33:31,386 --> 00:33:34,640
After the break, we'll be at
the National Assembly's Red Hall
429
00:33:34,765 --> 00:33:37,142
with our new minister of culture,
430
00:33:37,267 --> 00:33:39,728
Arlette Saint-Amour.
431
00:33:40,437 --> 00:33:41,980
What's going on with me?
432
00:33:42,814 --> 00:33:43,815
I'm nervous.
433
00:33:43,941 --> 00:33:45,317
That's good.
434
00:33:45,442 --> 00:33:47,277
I'd be worried if you weren't.
435
00:33:47,402 --> 00:33:49,112
Listen, sweetie.
436
00:33:49,613 --> 00:33:53,283
That miserable woman,
she'll try to get you with the silences,
437
00:33:53,408 --> 00:33:54,660
long fucking silences.
438
00:33:54,785 --> 00:33:56,995
Whatever you do, don't fill them.
439
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,623
Smile. Show your teeth.
440
00:34:02,084 --> 00:34:04,545
And this time, no $100 million.
441
00:34:04,670 --> 00:34:06,338
No cash, nothing.
442
00:34:06,463 --> 00:34:08,090
Don't go off-script.
443
00:34:08,590 --> 00:34:10,676
Basically, shut your mouth, Arlette.
444
00:34:10,801 --> 00:34:13,929
Yes, but more ladylike.
445
00:34:38,996 --> 00:34:41,665
So, spirited and passionate to some,
446
00:34:41,790 --> 00:34:43,750
bumbling and hot-headed to others,
447
00:34:43,876 --> 00:34:46,253
making you a controversial figure.
448
00:34:47,504 --> 00:34:49,840
Arlette Saint-Amour, hello.
449
00:34:49,965 --> 00:34:51,300
Hello.
450
00:34:52,217 --> 00:34:53,886
Happy to be here?
451
00:34:54,386 --> 00:34:56,263
I'm happy to see you again.
452
00:34:59,183 --> 00:35:02,811
You already seem comfortable
with the decorum.
453
00:35:03,478 --> 00:35:05,355
Were you born to be a minister?
454
00:35:13,113 --> 00:35:14,364
So?
455
00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:19,203
Tell us about a day in the life
of a minister like you.
456
00:35:20,037 --> 00:35:22,164
It's like going to the amusement park.
457
00:35:22,873 --> 00:35:24,750
We start Monday with the Slingshot.
458
00:35:24,875 --> 00:35:26,585
Tuesday is the Boomerang.
459
00:35:26,710 --> 00:35:28,170
Then things really take off:
460
00:35:28,295 --> 00:35:30,172
the Splash, the Vampire and...
461
00:35:30,839 --> 00:35:32,174
the Monster,
462
00:35:32,299 --> 00:35:34,384
for Saturday's grand finale.
463
00:35:40,474 --> 00:35:41,517
Mr. Premier.
464
00:35:41,642 --> 00:35:44,853
Admit it. Not bad for a novice!
465
00:35:47,022 --> 00:35:48,482
Sure.
466
00:35:51,193 --> 00:35:53,737
How is your relationship with Finance?
467
00:35:54,404 --> 00:35:56,698
Are you suggesting
we have a bad relationship?
468
00:35:56,823 --> 00:35:58,784
You're avoiding the question.
469
00:35:59,493 --> 00:36:03,705
We all know Finance and Culture
don't always speak the same language.
470
00:36:03,830 --> 00:36:05,958
Yes, but the artists,
471
00:36:06,333 --> 00:36:08,961
will they get their $100 million?
472
00:36:12,923 --> 00:36:14,258
Yes.
473
00:36:14,383 --> 00:36:16,134
A resounding yes.
474
00:36:19,263 --> 00:36:21,139
If there's one thing I believe,
475
00:36:21,265 --> 00:36:24,643
it's that artists are entitled
to that $100 million,
476
00:36:24,768 --> 00:36:26,228
Christine.
477
00:36:43,620 --> 00:36:44,538
Laurent Deschamps.
478
00:36:44,663 --> 00:36:47,708
Drag her here by the ponytail.
We have a crisis.
479
00:36:49,793 --> 00:36:51,170
Does the crisis have a name?
480
00:37:28,332 --> 00:37:29,875
Is it bad?
481
00:37:31,293 --> 00:37:33,086
Worse than bad.
482
00:37:34,087 --> 00:37:36,924
Should I be contemplating suicide?
483
00:37:45,140 --> 00:37:49,144
The finance minister, Madam Minister...
484
00:37:50,270 --> 00:37:53,982
is a shark who swallows
all the little fish in his way.
485
00:37:54,107 --> 00:37:55,108
All of them.
486
00:37:55,234 --> 00:37:57,861
Don't look for his soft side.
He doesn't have one.
487
00:37:58,820 --> 00:38:02,115
He married a rich
English-speaking Canadian
488
00:38:02,241 --> 00:38:06,954
and became the poster boy
for the establishment.
489
00:38:08,747 --> 00:38:13,710
They put him in office
to cut everything that costs money
490
00:38:13,836 --> 00:38:15,128
and doesn't make any.
491
00:38:15,254 --> 00:38:16,880
The poor...
492
00:38:18,590 --> 00:38:20,425
- Women...
- Of course.
493
00:38:20,551 --> 00:38:23,136
And your artists.
494
00:38:23,262 --> 00:38:28,058
So he decided to teach you a lesson.
495
00:38:28,725 --> 00:38:34,022
The lesson of a powerful man
provoked by a novice.
496
00:38:35,858 --> 00:38:40,612
In his next budget, the finance minister...
497
00:38:42,739 --> 00:38:44,867
plans to tax books.
498
00:38:50,747 --> 00:38:53,917
Well, he's getting himself in shit.
499
00:38:59,089 --> 00:39:03,302
No, he's getting us in shit.
500
00:39:03,927 --> 00:39:05,512
It's a disaster.
501
00:39:05,637 --> 00:39:07,264
The arts were already on our back.
502
00:39:07,389 --> 00:39:10,392
Now we'll have arts and literature
right in our faces!
503
00:39:10,517 --> 00:39:15,314
Authors, editors, booksellers,
libraries, universities...
504
00:39:15,439 --> 00:39:16,398
I got it.
505
00:39:16,523 --> 00:39:18,400
...teachers, children, parents!
506
00:39:18,525 --> 00:39:20,444
They'll never forgive you.
507
00:39:20,569 --> 00:39:21,904
Never!
508
00:39:22,362 --> 00:39:24,865
You'll be guillotined in the public square,
509
00:39:25,657 --> 00:39:29,077
under the indifferent gaze of the people.
510
00:39:29,870 --> 00:39:32,873
Because nobody reads,
Madam Minister. Nobody.
511
00:39:32,998 --> 00:39:36,418
But the book is untouchable.
512
00:39:37,002 --> 00:39:39,046
Ever since Gutenberg,
513
00:39:39,171 --> 00:39:43,467
the book has been
the very symbol of culture.
514
00:39:44,968 --> 00:39:47,429
Culture is under siege.
515
00:39:47,554 --> 00:39:49,223
We have to defend ourselves!
516
00:39:49,348 --> 00:39:54,436
So now, my question for you is...
517
00:39:55,812 --> 00:39:59,149
are you ready to lay your head
on the chopping block?
518
00:40:01,652 --> 00:40:08,534
Settling Scores
519
00:40:49,199 --> 00:40:51,243
We could have met at a restaurant,
520
00:40:51,368 --> 00:40:53,203
but with social media these days...
521
00:40:53,328 --> 00:40:54,371
You're right.
522
00:40:55,455 --> 00:40:57,875
In this town, even the tables have ears.
523
00:41:06,508 --> 00:41:08,844
Have you ever leaked information?
524
00:41:20,731 --> 00:41:22,149
Yes.
525
00:41:23,734 --> 00:41:25,194
What's it like the first time?
526
00:41:25,319 --> 00:41:27,154
The first time is always the worst.
527
00:41:28,071 --> 00:41:29,990
Like with anything.
528
00:41:30,908 --> 00:41:32,409
That's what I thought.
529
00:41:37,623 --> 00:41:42,336
I caught wind that the finance minister
plans to tax books.
530
00:41:49,801 --> 00:41:51,678
That's just like him.
531
00:41:53,347 --> 00:41:56,475
You know my hands are tied,
but we can agree that...
532
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,686
In a society, the book must be defended.
533
00:42:00,437 --> 00:42:02,606
It transcends party lines.
534
00:42:26,296 --> 00:42:27,631
How are you, Mireille?
535
00:42:35,806 --> 00:42:37,349
Mr. Premier...
536
00:42:42,729 --> 00:42:44,439
Order, please!
537
00:42:45,357 --> 00:42:46,316
Thank you.
538
00:42:48,026 --> 00:42:49,528
We will begin.
539
00:42:50,612 --> 00:42:52,239
Mr. Leader of the Opposition...
540
00:42:58,745 --> 00:43:02,249
Madam President, I'm hearing rumors.
541
00:43:04,626 --> 00:43:08,881
And the one circulating now
could create an unprecedented crisis
542
00:43:09,006 --> 00:43:10,757
in the world of culture.
543
00:43:13,051 --> 00:43:16,346
Will the finance minister confirm if,
yes or no,
544
00:43:16,471 --> 00:43:19,433
he intends to tax books in his next budget?
545
00:43:26,064 --> 00:43:27,983
Tell me it isn't true!
546
00:43:28,567 --> 00:43:32,571
It is a disastrous proposition,
Madam President,
547
00:43:32,696 --> 00:43:34,865
and I'm weighing my words.
548
00:43:34,990 --> 00:43:38,243
A tax on books is a tax on knowledge.
549
00:43:40,078 --> 00:43:43,582
A tax on books is a tax on humanity.
550
00:43:45,209 --> 00:43:47,920
It's taxing the masterpieces
written before us
551
00:43:48,045 --> 00:43:52,132
and making insignificant
the only human quality that isn't:
552
00:43:52,257 --> 00:43:53,842
imagination!
553
00:44:01,517 --> 00:44:03,268
Sadly, Madam President,
554
00:44:03,393 --> 00:44:06,563
all too often, the only book a politician
holds in his hands
555
00:44:06,688 --> 00:44:07,898
is his autobiography!
556
00:44:10,275 --> 00:44:13,820
Which an author had to write in his place.
557
00:44:22,496 --> 00:44:25,123
Mr. Minister of Finance...
558
00:44:26,250 --> 00:44:28,001
Madam President,
559
00:44:28,126 --> 00:44:30,754
need I remind the Leader of the Opposition
560
00:44:30,879 --> 00:44:34,800
that a budget is never discussed
in chambers before it is tabled?
561
00:44:50,315 --> 00:44:54,611
I expect you to apologize
to the finance minister within the hour.
562
00:44:58,866 --> 00:45:01,702
Why is the premier
sending me to the slaughterhouse?
563
00:45:01,827 --> 00:45:05,289
Well, seeing as you personally
delivered a secret to the enemy,
564
00:45:05,414 --> 00:45:07,916
and everyone knows you were the leak,
565
00:45:08,041 --> 00:45:09,501
your plan was a failure.
566
00:45:09,626 --> 00:45:10,586
But not a mistake.
567
00:45:10,711 --> 00:45:13,005
To play the game,
you have to know the rules.
568
00:45:13,130 --> 00:45:14,882
You made a rookie mistake.
569
00:45:15,007 --> 00:45:17,342
You told me to put my head
on the chopping block.
570
00:45:17,467 --> 00:45:20,804
Not serve it to the finance minister
on a silver platter!
571
00:45:21,763 --> 00:45:23,015
Not her again.
572
00:45:23,140 --> 00:45:26,435
The tax is an unfounded rumor,
Madam Minister. Got it?
573
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,312
An unfounded rumor.
574
00:45:29,813 --> 00:45:31,231
Madam Minister...
575
00:45:31,648 --> 00:45:36,153
How are you reacting
to this rumored tax on books?
576
00:45:38,655 --> 00:45:40,032
It's a non-starter.
577
00:45:40,157 --> 00:45:42,492
Once again, the opposition needed a story.
578
00:45:42,618 --> 00:45:47,289
What can I say? It's hard for them
to write a new comedy every day.
579
00:45:48,624 --> 00:45:50,542
It's an unfounded rumor.
580
00:45:50,667 --> 00:45:51,627
Excuse me.
581
00:45:55,422 --> 00:45:56,715
Goddammit!
582
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:58,300
This is bullshit!
583
00:45:58,425 --> 00:46:01,053
I try to clean up
the finance minister's mess,
584
00:46:01,178 --> 00:46:02,846
and now I have to apologize?
585
00:46:02,971 --> 00:46:05,682
Apologizing is regretting your actions.
586
00:46:06,183 --> 00:46:09,061
Presenting your apologies
is regretting you got caught.
587
00:46:09,186 --> 00:46:10,938
See the difference?
588
00:46:12,564 --> 00:46:15,526
Culture has always been
at the mercy of the finance minister.
589
00:46:15,651 --> 00:46:16,902
Always.
590
00:46:17,027 --> 00:46:18,779
His wish is our command.
591
00:46:18,904 --> 00:46:19,905
Why?
592
00:46:20,030 --> 00:46:23,659
Because he signs the fucking checks.
593
00:46:30,207 --> 00:46:31,458
Fuck!
594
00:46:37,756 --> 00:46:38,715
Go on.
595
00:46:43,929 --> 00:46:45,222
Come in.
596
00:47:08,912 --> 00:47:10,247
Minister...
597
00:47:24,178 --> 00:47:26,180
Diane, it's done.
598
00:47:39,943 --> 00:47:42,321
To what do I owe the pleasure?
599
00:47:45,657 --> 00:47:47,284
You know...
600
00:47:48,827 --> 00:47:51,580
the first image that came to mind
601
00:47:51,705 --> 00:47:55,167
when I learned you planned to tax books...
602
00:47:55,292 --> 00:47:58,086
Usually, people come see me
to ask for something.
603
00:48:01,715 --> 00:48:03,467
I'm sure.
604
00:48:04,468 --> 00:48:07,888
But maybe we'd like to come see you
605
00:48:08,472 --> 00:48:10,224
to teach you something.
606
00:48:11,808 --> 00:48:13,477
Like, I don't know,
607
00:48:13,602 --> 00:48:17,981
that Quebec ranks ninth in Canada
for the quality of its libraries.
608
00:48:18,732 --> 00:48:20,984
Our population already struggles
with literacy.
609
00:48:21,109 --> 00:48:23,904
How far will we go
down this path of ignorance?
610
00:48:24,988 --> 00:48:27,324
I'm not saying being illiterate is a crime.
611
00:48:27,449 --> 00:48:29,409
But a minister who...
612
00:48:29,993 --> 00:48:32,538
A minister who taxes culture
613
00:48:32,663 --> 00:48:35,499
is a minister seriously
lacking in culture.
614
00:48:35,624 --> 00:48:36,750
What are you thinking?
615
00:48:36,875 --> 00:48:38,627
Politically, it's a catastrophe.
616
00:48:38,752 --> 00:48:40,796
Do you know what it is to write a book?
617
00:48:40,921 --> 00:48:43,966
Or worse, not to have
a goddamn cent to buy one?
618
00:48:46,176 --> 00:48:48,387
If I ever knew, I forgot.
619
00:48:49,847 --> 00:48:52,850
Sorry. I was vaccinated against beggars.
620
00:48:57,104 --> 00:48:58,272
Anyway, I'm here...
621
00:48:58,397 --> 00:48:59,731
To apologize?
622
00:49:04,528 --> 00:49:05,779
To team up.
623
00:49:05,904 --> 00:49:07,322
To team up?
624
00:49:09,241 --> 00:49:11,034
To team up, sweetie...
625
00:49:11,660 --> 00:49:14,121
we'd have to be in the same league.
626
00:49:14,246 --> 00:49:17,374
And as far as I know,
you're still in the minors.
627
00:49:19,376 --> 00:49:22,004
You're nothing to the premier.
You know that?
628
00:49:22,504 --> 00:49:25,549
Just a pawn on his chessboard.
629
00:49:27,050 --> 00:49:30,387
He's just using you for your image.
630
00:49:32,931 --> 00:49:36,018
I will admit,
you're serving him perfectly.
631
00:49:38,270 --> 00:49:42,232
So just be happy to play the part
and be what you've always been...
632
00:49:43,317 --> 00:49:47,362
a vulgar photo of a starlet
on a glossy magazine cover.
633
00:50:15,516 --> 00:50:16,683
I knew it!
634
00:50:16,808 --> 00:50:18,894
It wasn't a meeting, it was an audience!
635
00:50:19,019 --> 00:50:21,563
Girouard, Holy Father! Fuck!
636
00:50:23,357 --> 00:50:25,234
I'm sick of being humiliated!
637
00:50:25,359 --> 00:50:29,488
In the chamber, by the ACC,
by the fucking finance minister!
638
00:50:29,613 --> 00:50:33,116
Jesus Christ! Am I just here to fail?
639
00:50:35,702 --> 00:50:37,037
That's it.
640
00:50:38,288 --> 00:50:40,541
In Culture, you're minister of nothing.
641
00:50:41,375 --> 00:50:42,876
The health minister is someone.
642
00:50:43,001 --> 00:50:44,253
The education minister too.
643
00:50:44,378 --> 00:50:47,339
But the culture minister
is minister of fuck all.
644
00:50:48,799 --> 00:50:50,759
What the hell am I doing here?
645
00:50:50,884 --> 00:50:54,513
I don't go out anymore.
I don't sleep, fuck, see my friends.
646
00:50:57,266 --> 00:50:59,184
I don't even have friends anymore.
647
00:51:00,769 --> 00:51:02,312
Everyone hates me.
648
00:51:03,939 --> 00:51:06,650
Get me out of here. I'm suffocating.
649
00:51:54,323 --> 00:51:55,824
You know my mother...
650
00:51:56,783 --> 00:52:01,496
the great seamstress
for all the major costume designers.
651
00:52:06,877 --> 00:52:08,795
I embellished.
652
00:52:16,053 --> 00:52:18,388
The truth is...
653
00:52:20,599 --> 00:52:24,895
she hemmed pants in Hochelaga
to send me to good schools.
654
00:52:30,776 --> 00:52:34,571
But in exchange,
I had to live up to her dreams.
655
00:52:36,823 --> 00:52:38,909
And you didn't today?
656
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,090
And she's right there,
over my head, to remind me.
657
00:52:59,513 --> 00:53:03,183
Sweetie, your debts to your mom,
658
00:53:03,851 --> 00:53:05,727
you paid them a long time ago.
659
00:53:08,146 --> 00:53:11,024
And I'll let you in on a secret too.
660
00:53:14,319 --> 00:53:15,821
My mother...
661
00:53:16,572 --> 00:53:18,824
was a winter carnival pageant queen.
662
00:53:20,158 --> 00:53:22,536
I've never bragged about that either.
663
00:53:23,996 --> 00:53:26,623
We're all allowed a few lies.
664
00:53:34,673 --> 00:53:36,466
You've always had a weakness for women.
665
00:53:36,592 --> 00:53:40,012
It helps boost your image
as our nation's father.
666
00:53:40,137 --> 00:53:44,141
But with Arlette Saint-Amour,
you're like a doddering, proud grandpa.
667
00:53:44,266 --> 00:53:46,018
It's a joke.
668
00:53:46,143 --> 00:53:49,313
It's rare for Finance
to be so bothered by Culture.
669
00:53:49,438 --> 00:53:51,732
Indeed, your plan worked.
670
00:53:51,857 --> 00:53:53,275
Not like yours, Paul!
671
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:54,943
Taxing books...
672
00:53:55,068 --> 00:53:57,112
Are we still in the same government?
673
00:53:57,237 --> 00:54:00,115
We tax children's shoes.
Why not books?
674
00:54:00,240 --> 00:54:02,576
We're all equal in the eyes of the taxman.
675
00:54:02,701 --> 00:54:05,454
Is that a fact or an opinion?
676
00:54:06,580 --> 00:54:07,789
It's the simple truth.
677
00:54:07,915 --> 00:54:11,335
The poor, the unemployed, artists...
What are they to you?
678
00:54:11,460 --> 00:54:13,212
Start-ups in the making?
679
00:54:13,337 --> 00:54:17,007
Do you really think writers
write better when they're starving?
680
00:54:17,883 --> 00:54:20,385
If we treat human beings like businesses,
681
00:54:20,886 --> 00:54:22,721
we'll all end up alone.
682
00:54:22,846 --> 00:54:25,265
Society will be replaced by stockholders.
683
00:54:25,390 --> 00:54:27,226
A few big, and a billion small.
684
00:54:27,351 --> 00:54:30,729
Maybe, but we need to clean house
before we hit a wall.
685
00:54:30,854 --> 00:54:33,690
And you want to
start your purge in my term?
686
00:54:33,815 --> 00:54:36,109
You're nearing the end, Mr. Premier.
687
00:54:36,235 --> 00:54:37,402
Your reign is over.
688
00:54:37,528 --> 00:54:39,530
Oh yeah? I'm not dead yet.
689
00:55:00,008 --> 00:55:01,301
Big day?
690
00:55:01,426 --> 00:55:04,555
Big day, little week for compliments,
as my mother would say.
691
00:55:05,055 --> 00:55:06,223
Thank you.
692
00:55:18,110 --> 00:55:21,488
Let's not beat around the bush,
Mr. Premier.
693
00:55:25,450 --> 00:55:29,079
From what I understand,
I'm a box in your organizational chart,
694
00:55:29,204 --> 00:55:31,748
and I'd like to know what role I'm playing.
695
00:55:33,292 --> 00:55:36,503
The lunatic you keep spinning around
on your chessboard...
696
00:55:38,589 --> 00:55:41,341
or the marionette
who takes all the blows.
697
00:55:42,509 --> 00:55:45,512
Depends who you're asking:
the man or the premier?
698
00:55:46,263 --> 00:55:48,223
I'd be happy with a single answer.
699
00:55:48,348 --> 00:55:50,058
Unfortunately, there are two.
700
00:55:51,185 --> 00:55:53,312
If you ask the man, it's neither.
701
00:55:53,437 --> 00:55:56,899
If you ask the premier,
it's a little of both.
702
00:55:59,026 --> 00:56:01,737
It takes a thick skin to do this job.
703
00:56:01,862 --> 00:56:05,240
MNAs have to play the game
and get played.
704
00:56:07,159 --> 00:56:09,161
Fine for the game,
but what do we do now?
705
00:56:09,286 --> 00:56:12,080
You let me loose in the traffic,
and I run over Girouard?
706
00:56:12,206 --> 00:56:13,165
Or can I count on you?
707
00:56:13,874 --> 00:56:15,876
You think I can control Girouard?
708
00:56:16,001 --> 00:56:19,087
Don't tell me
you lack the power to cancel a tax.
709
00:56:19,213 --> 00:56:21,673
I could, if this was a dictatorship.
710
00:56:21,798 --> 00:56:25,052
But I'm leader of a party
that is by definition democratic,
711
00:56:25,177 --> 00:56:28,514
where the financial establishment
nonetheless retains the privilege
712
00:56:28,639 --> 00:56:30,682
of choosing its finance minister.
713
00:56:32,226 --> 00:56:36,104
But although Girouard
serves his masters well...
714
00:56:37,564 --> 00:56:38,815
I admit...
715
00:56:39,483 --> 00:56:40,984
we're faced with a new beast.
716
00:56:42,569 --> 00:56:46,949
Girouard and his gang
have turned the economy into a religion.
717
00:56:47,074 --> 00:56:49,284
And like most men of faith,
718
00:56:49,409 --> 00:56:54,498
he has no qualms about making cuts
in education, health, culture...
719
00:56:55,666 --> 00:56:58,877
in the name of his church, austerity.
720
00:57:03,674 --> 00:57:06,176
Have you ever been to a bull fight?
721
00:57:07,970 --> 00:57:09,471
But...
722
00:57:10,514 --> 00:57:14,017
just yesterday, I came face to face
with a bull ready to gore me.
723
00:57:14,142 --> 00:57:16,478
Politics is like a bull fight.
724
00:57:17,521 --> 00:57:20,190
You advance, retreat, strategize.
725
00:57:21,024 --> 00:57:22,568
Before you can control the beast,
726
00:57:22,693 --> 00:57:27,823
you have to exhaust it
by waving your cape to make it charge.
727
00:57:30,033 --> 00:57:32,744
The budget is four months away,
728
00:57:32,870 --> 00:57:36,623
just enough time
to get Girouard to back off
729
00:57:37,207 --> 00:57:41,962
and remind him that culture
gives our nation meaning.
730
00:57:51,972 --> 00:57:53,307
On one condition.
731
00:57:55,309 --> 00:57:57,644
If I step into the ring...
732
00:57:58,729 --> 00:58:00,397
you're coming with me.
733
00:58:10,282 --> 00:58:13,076
Let's welcome our very own prima donna.
734
00:58:13,202 --> 00:58:14,453
Good evening.
735
00:58:14,578 --> 00:58:15,913
Please sit.
736
00:58:16,288 --> 00:58:20,250
Is it true you're seen
as a drama queen in parliament?
737
00:58:21,335 --> 00:58:23,045
What drama am I causing?
738
00:58:23,170 --> 00:58:25,714
I'm indignant that
we treat artists as beggars
739
00:58:25,839 --> 00:58:29,384
when they bring in more money
than the subsidies they're given.
740
00:58:29,510 --> 00:58:33,430
If that makes me a drama queen,
bring me a crown.
741
00:58:34,598 --> 00:58:37,309
Do you like it spicy or plain,
Madam Minister?
742
00:58:37,434 --> 00:58:38,519
Spicy!
743
00:58:39,686 --> 00:58:42,189
What does the minister of culture do?
744
00:58:42,314 --> 00:58:45,025
Protects artistic freedom.
745
00:58:45,150 --> 00:58:46,693
Your favorite novel?
746
00:58:46,818 --> 00:58:50,030
Kamouraska by Anne Hébert
for the passionate love story.
747
00:58:50,155 --> 00:58:52,157
Your favorite play, Madam Minister?
748
00:58:52,282 --> 00:58:54,493
I love and defend all Quebec authors,
749
00:58:54,618 --> 00:58:59,206
but I admit I have a soft spot
for Michel-Marc Bouchard's Girl King.
750
00:58:59,331 --> 00:59:00,999
What do books mean to you?
751
00:59:01,124 --> 00:59:04,503
Books allow you
to dream of another life.
752
00:59:04,628 --> 00:59:05,879
And culture?
753
00:59:06,004 --> 00:59:07,965
The freedom to dream.
754
00:59:08,549 --> 00:59:10,676
We need dreams.
755
00:59:10,801 --> 00:59:12,636
We need artists.
756
00:59:12,761 --> 00:59:15,097
We all dream of being an artist,
757
00:59:15,222 --> 00:59:19,852
but the truth is we need artists
to teach us to dream.
758
00:59:19,977 --> 00:59:23,480
"My people are forced to believe
what we tell them to believe
759
00:59:23,605 --> 00:59:26,108
"and repeat what we have them believe.
760
00:59:26,233 --> 00:59:29,111
"We need schools, libraries,
scholars, poets.
761
00:59:29,236 --> 00:59:32,114
I want to make my country
the most sophisticated of all."
762
00:59:32,239 --> 00:59:35,492
That text gives me wings.
763
00:59:35,617 --> 00:59:38,912
Will the minister finally
tell us, yes or no,
764
00:59:39,037 --> 00:59:41,790
if she'll get $100 million for culture?
765
00:59:41,915 --> 00:59:45,210
Since when does culture give up
in the face of the economy?
766
00:59:47,379 --> 00:59:49,506
Mr. Premier, you're everywhere.
767
00:59:49,631 --> 00:59:52,759
Correction! Culture is everywhere.
768
00:59:56,305 --> 00:59:57,931
You follow her everywhere!
769
01:00:00,809 --> 01:00:03,103
With me already under your skin...
770
01:00:06,815 --> 01:00:09,735
She's everywhere.
She's the minister of the hour.
771
01:00:09,860 --> 01:00:13,238
Polls show she is the most popular minister
in her government.
772
01:00:13,363 --> 01:00:14,573
It's simple. I love her.
773
01:00:14,698 --> 01:00:18,076
She's so awesome,
we listen to the questions period now.
774
01:00:18,202 --> 01:00:22,247
Our children have to squat
our theatres, libraries and museums.
775
01:00:22,372 --> 01:00:25,375
Culture must be at the heart of education.
776
01:00:25,501 --> 01:00:30,088
If causing a stir means objecting
to raising a generation of accountants
777
01:00:30,214 --> 01:00:33,008
conditioned to zero deficit, then yes.
778
01:00:33,133 --> 01:00:35,052
Yes, I'm causing a stir.
779
01:00:35,177 --> 01:00:39,723
Culture is Quebec's most valuable resource!
780
01:00:45,187 --> 01:00:47,731
From time to time, in court,
781
01:00:47,856 --> 01:00:51,235
a young star appears
in the sky over the palace.
782
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,446
Will it shine bright
or pass through like a shooting star?
783
01:00:54,571 --> 01:00:56,823
The bets are open.
784
01:00:57,574 --> 01:01:00,244
Do you like being called Arlette?
785
01:01:00,953 --> 01:01:04,623
Art and letters,
isn't that the root of Arlette?
786
01:01:04,748 --> 01:01:07,084
And if I say culture isn't profitable?
787
01:01:07,209 --> 01:01:11,421
I'd say that the pyramids of Egypt,
the Gardens of Versailles
788
01:01:11,547 --> 01:01:15,092
and La Scala in Milan weren't profitable.
789
01:01:15,217 --> 01:01:18,554
Culture is the only means people have
790
01:01:18,679 --> 01:01:21,390
to leave a trace of their passage on Earth.
791
01:01:21,515 --> 01:01:24,768
Do you believe in the power of the dress,
Madam Minister?
792
01:01:24,893 --> 01:01:27,020
They say the clothes make the man.
793
01:01:27,145 --> 01:01:28,480
But for a woman,
794
01:01:28,605 --> 01:01:32,609
the dress is a second skin
she chooses according to her moods.
795
01:01:33,318 --> 01:01:35,153
And what mood are you in today?
796
01:01:35,863 --> 01:01:37,281
Seductive.
797
01:01:46,915 --> 01:01:48,292
CULTURE IN POWER
798
01:01:51,128 --> 01:01:52,880
MONEY
FINANCE - ECONOMY - MARKETS
799
01:01:53,005 --> 01:01:55,757
CULTURE IN POWER
ARLETTE SAINT-AMOUR, ARTISTS' MINISTER
800
01:01:55,883 --> 01:01:57,384
I can't take it anymore.
801
01:01:58,051 --> 01:02:00,345
I just can't. She's everywhere.
802
01:02:05,517 --> 01:02:07,227
FULL SERVICE
803
01:02:29,166 --> 01:02:30,125
Yes?
804
01:02:30,250 --> 01:02:32,461
Sorry to bother you,
but do you have a minute?
805
01:02:32,586 --> 01:02:34,004
Of course.
806
01:02:37,341 --> 01:02:39,384
'Cause my situation is unbelievable.
807
01:02:40,677 --> 01:02:42,930
If it's any comfort, mine too.
808
01:02:43,639 --> 01:02:45,390
What can I do for you, Mr...
809
01:02:45,516 --> 01:02:46,642
Thibodeau.
810
01:02:46,767 --> 01:02:51,396
I own this garage, which your people
designated a historic site.
811
01:02:52,022 --> 01:02:52,981
But...
812
01:02:53,607 --> 01:02:56,527
Your garage is that old?
813
01:02:58,195 --> 01:03:00,322
Those dimwits zoned too big.
814
01:03:00,447 --> 01:03:03,408
The cemetery is historic,
not my garage, dammit!
815
01:03:04,868 --> 01:03:08,413
I can't even move a car anymore
without getting permission.
816
01:03:08,539 --> 01:03:10,499
It's hell, Madam Minister.
817
01:03:10,624 --> 01:03:12,292
I've had it.
818
01:03:13,377 --> 01:03:15,087
You're my last resort.
819
01:03:17,548 --> 01:03:18,882
Pardon me.
820
01:03:19,883 --> 01:03:21,134
You're right.
821
01:03:21,260 --> 01:03:23,595
We'll sort it out with those dimwits, OK?
822
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:25,973
This is Laurent Deschamps,
my press secretary.
823
01:03:26,098 --> 01:03:28,100
- Hi.
- He'll take care of you.
824
01:03:28,934 --> 01:03:30,477
Thank you, Madam Minister.
825
01:03:31,812 --> 01:03:33,146
Good luck.
826
01:03:34,940 --> 01:03:37,192
- Yes, Francine.
- Yes, Arlette?
827
01:03:37,317 --> 01:03:40,279
I just got an urgent call
from the Protocol.
828
01:03:40,404 --> 01:03:41,446
You'll never believe it.
829
01:03:41,572 --> 01:03:43,615
France is coming!
830
01:03:43,740 --> 01:03:45,826
And you'll replace
the minister of commerce
831
01:03:45,951 --> 01:03:48,829
to escort a French minister
832
01:03:48,954 --> 01:03:50,622
to an official dinner.
833
01:03:51,582 --> 01:03:54,459
And what do I have to do with Commerce?
834
01:03:54,585 --> 01:03:56,962
Honestly, they couldn't find anyone else.
835
01:04:01,633 --> 01:04:02,968
You cold?
836
01:04:03,093 --> 01:04:06,680
There are no words.
I'm so cold, my bones are cold.
837
01:04:39,171 --> 01:04:41,423
I was expecting the minister of commerce.
838
01:04:41,548 --> 01:04:44,051
What a pleasure to meet
his colleague in Culture.
839
01:04:44,176 --> 01:04:45,844
Nice to meet you, Madam Minister.
840
01:04:45,969 --> 01:04:47,304
Justine d'Arcy.
841
01:04:47,429 --> 01:04:48,555
Call me Justine.
842
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:50,641
Arlette Saint-Amour. Call me Arlette.
843
01:04:51,767 --> 01:04:53,268
After you.
844
01:05:40,691 --> 01:05:43,735
Pretend you like her, like you do with me.
845
01:05:48,866 --> 01:05:51,702
You know my colleague is a culture fanatic?
846
01:05:53,537 --> 01:05:55,038
Especially opera.
847
01:05:57,082 --> 01:06:00,252
It's true that politics
are a lot like opera.
848
01:06:00,377 --> 01:06:01,879
I'm Mozartian.
849
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:04,214
You?
850
01:06:06,717 --> 01:06:08,302
Let me guess.
851
01:06:09,386 --> 01:06:12,014
Verdi, I bet. La traviata!
852
01:06:16,018 --> 01:06:17,352
And you, Arlette?
853
01:06:17,477 --> 01:06:19,938
Between Callas and Tebaldi,
who makes you tick?
854
01:06:21,690 --> 01:06:24,443
Callas, for her flamboyance.
855
01:06:24,568 --> 01:06:28,113
And Tebaldi...
856
01:06:28,739 --> 01:06:32,576
for her determination
in trying to dislodge her.
857
01:06:48,675 --> 01:06:51,720
There's something I should tell you.
858
01:06:52,846 --> 01:06:55,349
Paul still intends to tax books.
859
01:06:58,310 --> 01:07:00,729
I don't know what he's planning,
860
01:07:00,854 --> 01:07:05,108
but he's produced a study
proving only the rich buy books.
861
01:07:05,234 --> 01:07:10,322
Other than those who write them,
who will protest a tax on the rich?
862
01:07:11,657 --> 01:07:13,742
You have to admit it's clever.
863
01:07:14,493 --> 01:07:15,827
Indeed.
864
01:07:21,875 --> 01:07:23,836
He hates losing.
865
01:07:24,503 --> 01:07:26,421
He goes for the jugular.
866
01:07:29,258 --> 01:07:32,177
Things must be lively
at the breakfast table.
867
01:07:34,888 --> 01:07:37,474
We're only a couple publicly.
868
01:07:40,435 --> 01:07:42,229
He's OK with that?
869
01:07:42,354 --> 01:07:44,106
He mostly needs my father,
870
01:07:44,231 --> 01:07:48,569
who needs his son-in-law,
the finance minister, in his pocket.
871
01:07:51,780 --> 01:07:53,907
They even share a mistress.
872
01:08:00,289 --> 01:08:03,083
While they obsess over free markets,
873
01:08:03,208 --> 01:08:05,043
I devote myself...
874
01:08:05,878 --> 01:08:07,921
to freeing my sexuality.
875
01:08:08,630 --> 01:08:10,340
Do you have a lover?
876
01:08:11,258 --> 01:08:12,634
It's been a while.
877
01:08:14,261 --> 01:08:17,514
So you have a choice.
878
01:08:18,515 --> 01:08:22,227
You can either be the minister
contemplating still lifes,
879
01:08:22,352 --> 01:08:24,520
or the minister of performing arts,
880
01:08:24,645 --> 01:08:27,357
who needs to make love to recharge.
881
01:08:31,194 --> 01:08:32,696
See you at the table.
882
01:08:48,462 --> 01:08:51,256
I visited the National Assembly today.
883
01:08:51,381 --> 01:08:54,343
Impressive, isn't it?
A gallery of great men.
884
01:08:54,468 --> 01:08:56,220
You must come see ours, Arlette.
885
01:08:56,345 --> 01:08:58,430
We have entire walls of politicians
886
01:08:58,555 --> 01:09:01,350
who don't even deserve
to be woven into an old rug.
887
01:09:04,310 --> 01:09:05,479
Ladies and gentlemen...
888
01:09:06,313 --> 01:09:09,233
I'd like to make a toast
to our guest of honor,
889
01:09:09,733 --> 01:09:14,529
the minister for international trade,
Ms. Justine d'Arcy.
890
01:09:19,910 --> 01:09:22,537
Thank you for welcoming me
to your beautiful country.
891
01:09:22,662 --> 01:09:27,334
Quebec and France have
always maintained a special relationship.
892
01:09:27,917 --> 01:09:29,336
Thank you very much. And cheers!
893
01:09:36,635 --> 01:09:39,638
Mr. Minister,
may I ask what we're drinking?
894
01:09:39,763 --> 01:09:41,055
It's exquisite.
895
01:09:41,180 --> 01:09:42,724
A great Quebec wine.
896
01:09:42,850 --> 01:09:44,268
Cuvée Natashquan.
897
01:09:44,393 --> 01:09:46,060
That's just it.
898
01:09:46,185 --> 01:09:48,981
This wine is a perfect example
of our culture.
899
01:09:49,106 --> 01:09:50,691
Despite our harsh climate,
900
01:09:50,816 --> 01:09:53,193
a determined winemaker
901
01:09:53,318 --> 01:09:56,697
can transform a bitter wine
902
01:09:56,822 --> 01:09:59,157
into a wine bursting with panache.
903
01:10:48,290 --> 01:10:50,709
We have to rewrite history,
Madam Minister.
904
01:10:53,629 --> 01:10:55,297
What an error our kings made.
905
01:10:56,965 --> 01:10:59,051
What sacrilege!
906
01:11:03,597 --> 01:11:08,268
Trading Louisiana
for these acres of snow,
907
01:11:08,393 --> 01:11:11,522
where incredible warmth
envelops us tonight.
908
01:11:14,900 --> 01:11:16,401
Justine...
909
01:11:20,822 --> 01:11:22,741
I'll trade you...
910
01:11:24,243 --> 01:11:25,869
400 years of history...
911
01:11:26,578 --> 01:11:28,664
for one more orgasm.
912
01:12:36,148 --> 01:12:41,028
Open Warfare
913
01:12:42,571 --> 01:12:44,406
I can't believe it.
914
01:12:45,365 --> 01:12:47,701
Jonathan... Doing well?
915
01:12:47,826 --> 01:12:49,286
Look at that miserable woman.
916
01:12:51,622 --> 01:12:53,749
Get your machine out. I have a surprise.
917
01:12:53,874 --> 01:12:55,125
- No.
- Yes.
918
01:12:56,126 --> 01:12:57,419
Please no.
919
01:12:59,713 --> 01:13:03,550
Madam Minister,
may I ask you a few questions?
920
01:13:03,675 --> 01:13:05,344
I hope I can answer, Christine.
921
01:13:06,803 --> 01:13:10,349
Despite your earnest desire
to defend culture,
922
01:13:10,474 --> 01:13:14,937
your entire media campaign
will have been a waste of time
923
01:13:15,062 --> 01:13:17,689
if it's just to improve your own image.
924
01:13:17,814 --> 01:13:18,857
That's your opinion.
925
01:13:18,982 --> 01:13:19,983
You think so?
926
01:13:20,108 --> 01:13:21,693
According to our sources,
927
01:13:21,818 --> 01:13:25,322
the finance minister
still intends to tax books.
928
01:13:26,949 --> 01:13:29,076
Your wishes aren't reality, Christine.
929
01:13:29,201 --> 01:13:32,079
Well, his wishes are reality.
930
01:13:33,664 --> 01:13:35,332
My question is simple.
931
01:13:35,457 --> 01:13:39,002
How would you react to such a tax?
932
01:13:40,003 --> 01:13:41,129
Well...
933
01:13:43,423 --> 01:13:45,467
I'd turn the bad into good.
934
01:13:46,260 --> 01:13:47,719
We could use the tax dollars
935
01:13:47,845 --> 01:13:51,348
to restock all the empty shelves
in our school libraries.
936
01:13:54,768 --> 01:13:58,021
My minister is anything but boring.
937
01:13:59,857 --> 01:14:01,817
What does that do for us,
938
01:14:01,942 --> 01:14:03,944
empty shelves in our libraries?
939
01:14:04,069 --> 01:14:05,404
We were never tied to that!
940
01:14:05,529 --> 01:14:06,780
Well, let's tie ourselves.
941
01:14:06,905 --> 01:14:09,741
We'll tie our hair, hands, feet,
but never my mouth.
942
01:14:09,867 --> 01:14:11,368
Let him have his tax!
943
01:14:11,493 --> 01:14:14,121
But don't stop me
from trying to spend it.
944
01:14:15,163 --> 01:14:16,790
I like suffering,
945
01:14:16,915 --> 01:14:20,252
but I won't play Joan of Arc
burning at the stake on budget night.
946
01:14:20,377 --> 01:14:23,297
- OK, listen...
- Forget it. I won't change my mind.
947
01:14:24,506 --> 01:14:27,342
The ACC is tweeting, Madam Minister.
948
01:14:28,010 --> 01:14:29,511
Jesus Christ!
949
01:14:32,514 --> 01:14:33,682
Go on!
950
01:14:34,349 --> 01:14:35,851
Move it.
951
01:14:36,727 --> 01:14:38,395
Your dog, Madam Minister.
952
01:14:39,188 --> 01:14:40,814
I never have time for him.
953
01:14:40,939 --> 01:14:43,275
No, puppy...
954
01:14:43,984 --> 01:14:45,819
Auntie Carole will take care of you.
955
01:14:47,237 --> 01:14:50,282
Can you get my dry cleaning?
It's on your way.
956
01:14:50,407 --> 01:14:52,576
Thanks. You're the best.
957
01:14:55,287 --> 01:14:56,538
Thank you.
958
01:14:57,497 --> 01:14:58,874
Goddammit.
959
01:14:59,625 --> 01:15:03,045
It's not the first time
a minister forgets us.
960
01:15:03,170 --> 01:15:06,465
But whose bright idea was it
not to consult us?
961
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:11,553
If it makes you feel better,
I wasn't consulted either.
962
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:15,599
I'm disappointed, Madam Minister.
963
01:15:16,517 --> 01:15:19,603
We expected more from you
than more feigned powerlessness.
964
01:15:26,652 --> 01:15:30,697
The tax will bring in $40 million a year.
965
01:15:31,865 --> 01:15:35,160
$40 million to buy Quebec books,
966
01:15:35,285 --> 01:15:38,455
to promote our authors.
967
01:15:39,331 --> 01:15:41,583
Not French or American authors.
968
01:15:41,708 --> 01:15:43,126
Our authors.
969
01:15:44,753 --> 01:15:46,505
You can't be against that.
970
01:15:46,630 --> 01:15:48,173
Yeah.
971
01:15:48,298 --> 01:15:51,927
And who says the tax dollars
won't just feed the deficit?
972
01:15:52,052 --> 01:15:53,262
Me.
973
01:15:53,387 --> 01:15:54,388
Sure.
974
01:15:56,014 --> 01:15:57,558
I have the premier's support.
975
01:15:58,642 --> 01:16:00,435
We just spoke.
He gave me his word.
976
01:16:00,561 --> 01:16:01,478
Actually...
977
01:16:01,603 --> 01:16:02,771
Where I grew up,
978
01:16:03,480 --> 01:16:06,358
we read Bazooka Joe comics
to feed our imagination
979
01:16:06,483 --> 01:16:07,818
'cause we were so poor.
980
01:16:09,903 --> 01:16:11,196
We have an opportunity.
981
01:16:11,321 --> 01:16:15,826
The opportunity to bring beauty,
greatness, dreams to our schools.
982
01:16:15,951 --> 01:16:18,996
Believe me, when you
don't have a penny to your name,
983
01:16:19,121 --> 01:16:21,748
but you're holding a book, you're rich.
984
01:16:23,959 --> 01:16:26,295
I'm asking you to join my campaign.
985
01:16:27,087 --> 01:16:28,338
It's time to get out there
986
01:16:28,463 --> 01:16:30,966
and make enough noise
to wake the entire province.
987
01:16:31,091 --> 01:16:33,218
But I'm not the enemy here.
988
01:16:33,343 --> 01:16:35,012
It's the finance minister.
989
01:16:53,113 --> 01:16:56,491
You're not the only one
worried about the finance minister.
990
01:17:06,210 --> 01:17:07,294
Cheers, Arlette.
991
01:17:09,755 --> 01:17:11,173
Cheers.
992
01:17:19,014 --> 01:17:22,726
My question is simple, very simple.
993
01:17:23,602 --> 01:17:26,772
The premier's support, does she have it?
994
01:17:26,897 --> 01:17:28,857
Did she dream she had it?
995
01:17:28,982 --> 01:17:31,443
Or does she think she could get it?
996
01:17:35,531 --> 01:17:37,574
It's more the last two choices.
997
01:17:39,368 --> 01:17:42,829
We climbed out of a hole
to fall into an abyss.
998
01:17:43,664 --> 01:17:48,210
You exasperate me to no fucking end!
999
01:17:48,335 --> 01:17:49,586
And I'm being polite.
1000
01:17:49,711 --> 01:17:53,507
At some point,
she's gonna have to rein it in.
1001
01:17:54,842 --> 01:17:56,802
I guarantee you that won't happen.
1002
01:17:57,302 --> 01:18:00,806
Look, you can get up on your high horse...
1003
01:18:01,890 --> 01:18:03,475
or tell me...
1004
01:18:04,643 --> 01:18:07,187
how to get the premier's support.
1005
01:18:07,312 --> 01:18:09,690
Certainly, yes.
1006
01:18:09,815 --> 01:18:11,316
Take notes.
1007
01:18:12,150 --> 01:18:13,360
First...
1008
01:18:14,361 --> 01:18:16,905
to get, maybe,
1009
01:18:17,489 --> 01:18:19,449
the premier's political support,
1010
01:18:19,575 --> 01:18:23,245
you'll need support from the rural MNAs.
1011
01:18:28,917 --> 01:18:32,963
Politically, our caucus
is split in two, OK?
1012
01:18:33,088 --> 01:18:36,216
There's Girouard's establishment caucus
on one side,
1013
01:18:36,341 --> 01:18:40,804
and the premier's rural caucus
on the other side.
1014
01:18:40,929 --> 01:18:42,139
That's it.
1015
01:18:42,264 --> 01:18:44,308
To overturn Girouard's tax,
1016
01:18:44,433 --> 01:18:47,227
the premier will need support
1017
01:18:47,352 --> 01:18:50,063
from every rural MNA.
1018
01:18:50,856 --> 01:18:52,065
Every last one of them.
1019
01:18:52,191 --> 01:18:55,235
And that's your job.
1020
01:19:35,651 --> 01:19:37,694
You guys have a spot for me?
1021
01:19:37,819 --> 01:19:39,112
You know how to play poker?
1022
01:19:39,238 --> 01:19:40,864
Mostly online poker.
1023
01:19:40,989 --> 01:19:43,116
Best cure for insomnia.
1024
01:19:43,992 --> 01:19:46,578
Fortune is already smiling down on you.
1025
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:49,331
Get her a chair.
1026
01:19:50,707 --> 01:19:52,292
Sit.
1027
01:19:54,253 --> 01:19:56,046
Madam Minister.
1028
01:19:56,171 --> 01:19:57,714
Kind gentlemen...
1029
01:19:58,590 --> 01:19:59,550
That's us!
1030
01:19:59,675 --> 01:20:03,929
Usually, ministers come to our floor
when they have something to ask us.
1031
01:20:05,430 --> 01:20:09,268
No politics tonight, Germain. Only cards!
1032
01:20:09,393 --> 01:20:10,561
OK.
1033
01:20:10,686 --> 01:20:11,603
Let's see your chips.
1034
01:20:12,980 --> 01:20:15,399
I'd take a drink.
1035
01:20:15,524 --> 01:20:16,817
Of course!
1036
01:20:16,942 --> 01:20:18,485
Yes!
1037
01:20:19,194 --> 01:20:20,487
Scotch?
1038
01:20:23,615 --> 01:20:26,660
Does he always deal such a bad hand?
1039
01:20:28,328 --> 01:20:30,080
We're off to a good start!
1040
01:20:33,917 --> 01:20:35,502
Cheers, everyone!
1041
01:20:36,211 --> 01:20:37,838
Cheers!
1042
01:20:41,633 --> 01:20:42,843
Where are you from?
1043
01:20:42,968 --> 01:20:44,678
I'm from Hochelaga.
1044
01:20:45,345 --> 01:20:47,472
It's not as western as you guys,
1045
01:20:47,598 --> 01:20:49,600
but it's pretty damn rock and roll.
1046
01:20:49,725 --> 01:20:50,851
You can say that again!
1047
01:20:51,643 --> 01:20:54,813
We've been watching you,
and you've got class.
1048
01:20:54,938 --> 01:20:56,106
Yeah.
1049
01:20:56,231 --> 01:20:57,441
It's true.
1050
01:20:57,566 --> 01:21:01,361
You're as comfortable with high society
as you would be at the county fair.
1051
01:21:02,404 --> 01:21:05,449
We'd have to stop you
from hopping bareback onto a horse.
1052
01:21:06,575 --> 01:21:07,743
Or joining the rodeo.
1053
01:21:12,247 --> 01:21:15,542
We like women with balls here.
1054
01:21:17,252 --> 01:21:18,921
Thank you.
1055
01:21:19,421 --> 01:21:21,215
OK, who's left?
1056
01:21:22,090 --> 01:21:23,550
Me.
1057
01:21:24,885 --> 01:21:26,011
Now we're talking.
1058
01:21:26,136 --> 01:21:27,554
Is he bluffing?
1059
01:21:31,141 --> 01:21:32,768
What do I do?
1060
01:21:36,939 --> 01:21:38,607
Look at her!
1061
01:21:41,568 --> 01:21:42,945
Léopold!
1062
01:21:50,869 --> 01:21:52,454
Come on, Léo!
1063
01:21:52,579 --> 01:21:53,539
What do you have?
1064
01:22:01,547 --> 01:22:03,048
I knew it!
1065
01:22:03,173 --> 01:22:04,800
You have a tell.
1066
01:22:04,925 --> 01:22:06,134
And voilà!
1067
01:22:07,719 --> 01:22:09,805
Full house, Christ!
1068
01:22:14,685 --> 01:22:18,313
Nothing like a game of cards
to clear your head.
1069
01:22:18,438 --> 01:22:22,234
You're clearing your head,
but filling your purse.
1070
01:22:26,321 --> 01:22:27,823
OK, let's bring out the vodka.
1071
01:22:27,948 --> 01:22:28,907
Another one?
1072
01:22:29,032 --> 01:22:30,242
- Yep.
- Jesus!
1073
01:22:30,367 --> 01:22:33,203
- Madam Minister?
- Yeah, two for me.
1074
01:22:35,330 --> 01:22:36,415
Thank you very much.
1075
01:22:40,794 --> 01:22:43,088
To the minister of culture!
1076
01:22:44,339 --> 01:22:45,757
To you!
1077
01:22:51,471 --> 01:22:55,017
Marcel, you've been
talking about it for ages.
1078
01:22:55,142 --> 01:22:57,811
Did you ever get funding
for your slaughterhouse?
1079
01:22:58,812 --> 01:22:59,771
May I?
1080
01:22:59,897 --> 01:23:03,525
Since when is a culture minister
interested in a slaughterhouse?
1081
01:23:03,650 --> 01:23:05,485
Not only am I interested,
1082
01:23:05,611 --> 01:23:09,198
but I'd be ready to clear my schedule
to announce it with you.
1083
01:23:11,700 --> 01:23:13,327
What's this?
1084
01:23:13,452 --> 01:23:15,370
Let me tell you something, boys.
1085
01:23:15,495 --> 01:23:17,873
Agriculture is a passion of mine.
1086
01:23:19,041 --> 01:23:20,000
I'm serious.
1087
01:23:20,709 --> 01:23:22,753
No, but milking a cow, you know...
1088
01:23:22,878 --> 01:23:25,172
A teat in one hand,
zing zing into the pail.
1089
01:23:25,297 --> 01:23:27,591
Send a little shot
to the cat at your side.
1090
01:23:27,716 --> 01:23:30,427
Now, that's a feeling!
1091
01:23:30,552 --> 01:23:31,720
Yeah, yeah.
1092
01:23:32,346 --> 01:23:34,306
Maurice, I haven't forgotten about you.
1093
01:23:35,724 --> 01:23:39,394
The money for your drilling hoses,
I'll back you on that.
1094
01:23:40,521 --> 01:23:44,233
Like the Saint-Onézime bridge,
which could be designated...
1095
01:23:45,692 --> 01:23:46,902
historic.
1096
01:23:57,996 --> 01:23:59,748
That's why I come here.
1097
01:23:59,873 --> 01:24:03,085
To escape all the monks' squabbles
at the monastery,
1098
01:24:03,210 --> 01:24:05,254
where all low blows are allowed.
1099
01:24:06,922 --> 01:24:09,258
Usually, the seas are stormier with you.
1100
01:24:12,427 --> 01:24:13,887
At the speed you're learning,
1101
01:24:14,513 --> 01:24:17,683
you'll be a seasoned politician in no time.
1102
01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:22,813
Do you have my caucus's support yet?
1103
01:24:22,938 --> 01:24:26,441
I spent the evening
with your caucus's head office.
1104
01:24:27,192 --> 01:24:28,986
Oh yeah? And?
1105
01:24:31,238 --> 01:24:33,115
I got their support.
1106
01:24:36,869 --> 01:24:37,870
And Girouard?
1107
01:24:37,995 --> 01:24:41,290
P.O. is in Finance
to announce our majority.
1108
01:24:43,417 --> 01:24:45,752
Turning a tax into books.
1109
01:24:45,878 --> 01:24:47,754
It's like the wedding at Cana!
1110
01:24:50,174 --> 01:24:51,592
Well played, Arlette!
1111
01:24:52,467 --> 01:24:53,969
Well played.
1112
01:24:56,430 --> 01:24:59,266
Have you gone blind and deaf, Mr. Premier?
1113
01:24:59,391 --> 01:25:00,559
Enough is enough!
1114
01:25:00,684 --> 01:25:01,685
Oh yeah?
1115
01:25:01,810 --> 01:25:03,478
Yes! She's gone too far.
1116
01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:06,648
We have to take disciplinary measures.
1117
01:25:08,150 --> 01:25:11,195
I know she's still learning,
but there are limits.
1118
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:12,237
Rules are rules,
1119
01:25:12,362 --> 01:25:14,865
and solidarity among ministers
is one of them.
1120
01:25:14,990 --> 01:25:16,241
I want you to intervene
1121
01:25:16,366 --> 01:25:17,826
and get her in line.
1122
01:25:24,458 --> 01:25:25,709
Christ!
1123
01:25:25,834 --> 01:25:27,252
Mr. Minister...
1124
01:25:28,003 --> 01:25:31,215
Do what you have to do,
but find me something, anything.
1125
01:25:31,340 --> 01:25:33,050
Take her down.
1126
01:25:33,175 --> 01:25:37,429
There has to be someone in her little world
who can get us some dirt.
1127
01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:40,349
You can count on me.
1128
01:25:57,908 --> 01:25:59,201
Good evening.
1129
01:26:00,244 --> 01:26:02,037
Madam Minister.
1130
01:26:02,454 --> 01:26:03,956
Thank you.
1131
01:26:11,338 --> 01:26:12,714
You know what?
1132
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:17,219
I think I'm about to feel some love.
1133
01:26:18,512 --> 01:26:20,597
You know how much I admire artists.
1134
01:26:20,722 --> 01:26:24,726
But I think I'm finally
part of their big family.
1135
01:26:25,394 --> 01:26:28,480
Tonight, I'm the minister of artists.
1136
01:26:34,987 --> 01:26:36,321
Let's go.
1137
01:26:36,446 --> 01:26:38,448
Stand by, we're back from the break.
1138
01:26:38,574 --> 01:26:41,702
Three, two, one...
1139
01:26:42,369 --> 01:26:43,620
we're on.
1140
01:26:43,745 --> 01:26:45,205
FRENCH MUSIC GALA
1141
01:26:45,330 --> 01:26:47,457
And now, Mr. Valmont Faucher,
1142
01:26:47,583 --> 01:26:51,420
president of the Arts and Culture Coalition
will say a few words.
1143
01:26:56,216 --> 01:27:00,053
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests...
1144
01:27:01,263 --> 01:27:06,101
Allow me to begin by paying tribute
to our minister of culture.
1145
01:27:06,226 --> 01:27:08,937
Let's give her a big hand
1146
01:27:09,062 --> 01:27:11,815
for her defense of writers
1147
01:27:11,940 --> 01:27:14,568
and their rights
on the issue of the book tax.
1148
01:27:33,003 --> 01:27:35,047
I admit, Madam Minister,
1149
01:27:35,172 --> 01:27:39,009
your inclination toward Quebec artists
1150
01:27:39,134 --> 01:27:40,969
is more than refreshing.
1151
01:27:42,137 --> 01:27:43,138
Thank you.
1152
01:27:43,263 --> 01:27:45,933
But where there is praise...
1153
01:27:47,267 --> 01:27:49,311
there is also blame.
1154
01:27:52,356 --> 01:27:53,398
Here we go!
1155
01:27:53,524 --> 01:27:57,778
It is regrettable that a minister
glorified for defending our culture
1156
01:27:57,903 --> 01:28:03,116
is silent when it comes to defending
its very core...
1157
01:28:03,951 --> 01:28:04,952
our language.
1158
01:28:06,453 --> 01:28:09,706
Like anyone who cares
about defending the French language,
1159
01:28:10,415 --> 01:28:13,836
I was scandalized to learn
that the Ministry of Culture
1160
01:28:13,961 --> 01:28:16,463
finances French-language music
1161
01:28:16,588 --> 01:28:19,591
and English-language music
1162
01:28:19,716 --> 01:28:21,593
in equal measure.
1163
01:28:23,345 --> 01:28:26,139
Need I remind Madam Minister
1164
01:28:26,265 --> 01:28:28,642
that Quebec songwriters
1165
01:28:28,767 --> 01:28:32,354
are being crushed by Internet giants?
1166
01:28:34,064 --> 01:28:36,650
Stay on the minister's face.
1167
01:28:36,775 --> 01:28:40,279
One English song on a French record
1168
01:28:40,404 --> 01:28:43,824
will become two, three, four...
1169
01:28:44,241 --> 01:28:47,828
until the day we're proud
to see a single French song
1170
01:28:47,953 --> 01:28:49,705
on an English record.
1171
01:28:50,831 --> 01:28:52,791
Soon, all we'll have left of our language
1172
01:28:52,916 --> 01:28:55,794
will be a vulgar translation
of "Je me souviens."
1173
01:29:05,179 --> 01:29:06,555
You're in deep shit, sweetie.
1174
01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:10,851
It's one thing to parade around on TV,
bragging about our culture.
1175
01:29:11,852 --> 01:29:15,355
It's another to live it every day
1176
01:29:15,480 --> 01:29:17,649
and defend it in your guts!
1177
01:29:18,567 --> 01:29:23,363
But to understand,
you'd have to be an artist.
1178
01:29:42,090 --> 01:29:45,052
Show your teeth. Smile.
1179
01:29:45,177 --> 01:29:46,720
Smile.
1180
01:29:58,607 --> 01:30:00,359
This is awesome.
1181
01:30:25,801 --> 01:30:28,178
Well played, Mr. Ducros.
1182
01:30:28,303 --> 01:30:31,306
A language scandal always pays off.
1183
01:30:33,058 --> 01:30:35,727
And what did her humiliation cost us?
1184
01:31:06,216 --> 01:31:07,676
You're a real piece of shit.
1185
01:31:08,886 --> 01:31:10,220
Don't talk to me like that.
1186
01:31:10,345 --> 01:31:11,805
I'll talk to you...
1187
01:31:12,431 --> 01:31:14,933
I'll talk to you how I want.
You gave us your word.
1188
01:31:16,310 --> 01:31:17,853
I had no choice.
1189
01:31:23,108 --> 01:31:26,570
I've waited seven years
for funding to build my new theater.
1190
01:31:28,113 --> 01:31:30,073
That gives you the right to be an asshole?
1191
01:31:33,076 --> 01:31:35,913
An asshole with a new theater.
1192
01:31:37,414 --> 01:31:38,999
You're forgetting something.
1193
01:31:39,124 --> 01:31:43,921
Your theater's operation
is financed by Culture.
1194
01:31:47,633 --> 01:31:49,551
You don't have the power to do that.
1195
01:31:50,093 --> 01:31:51,470
I don't.
1196
01:31:51,595 --> 01:31:56,099
But I can make sure your file gets buried
under a huge fucking pile, though.
1197
01:31:57,976 --> 01:32:01,396
And don't go crying
to the finance minister.
1198
01:32:02,356 --> 01:32:03,857
He's done with you.
1199
01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:07,945
Politicians are human beings.
1200
01:32:08,070 --> 01:32:11,240
Tonight, it wasn't the politician
you publicly humiliated.
1201
01:32:11,365 --> 01:32:12,282
It was the human being.
1202
01:32:12,407 --> 01:32:16,912
And the human being and her press secretary
will never forgive you.
1203
01:32:29,132 --> 01:32:31,134
Valmont Faucher...
1204
01:32:32,803 --> 01:32:35,180
Fucking two-face liar.
1205
01:32:38,267 --> 01:32:40,143
What was that?
1206
01:32:40,269 --> 01:32:43,146
You wanted me humiliated
in front of a million people?
1207
01:32:43,272 --> 01:32:44,815
I didn't.
1208
01:32:44,940 --> 01:32:46,859
But obviously, Girouard did.
1209
01:32:46,984 --> 01:32:49,236
He ransacked the ministry
to find the flaw.
1210
01:32:49,778 --> 01:32:52,948
It's your job to find out before,
not after!
1211
01:32:53,073 --> 01:32:55,492
I had a deal with the ACC. I was betrayed!
1212
01:32:55,617 --> 01:32:58,120
Yeah, but it seems the ACC
has a deal with everyone,
1213
01:32:58,245 --> 01:32:59,288
including Finance.
1214
01:32:59,413 --> 01:33:03,750
They bought him a new theater
in exchange for your public humiliation.
1215
01:33:04,585 --> 01:33:08,005
An artist's noblesse is knowing how
to bite the hand that feeds them.
1216
01:33:09,715 --> 01:33:12,050
Know what your problem is, Laurent?
1217
01:33:12,759 --> 01:33:14,720
You're always above everything.
1218
01:33:14,845 --> 01:33:16,597
You always control everything.
1219
01:33:16,722 --> 01:33:20,225
You're always telling me what to do,
what to think, what to say,
1220
01:33:20,350 --> 01:33:22,561
how to breathe,
how to fucking smile!
1221
01:33:22,686 --> 01:33:26,023
But what you can't say is that
you made a mistake, a fucking big one!
1222
01:33:30,569 --> 01:33:33,572
Fuck your problems!
Fuck you, fuck everything!
1223
01:33:33,697 --> 01:33:38,452
I'm always protecting you,
saving your ass, worrying about you.
1224
01:33:39,203 --> 01:33:41,830
Defending you,
fussing over you like a sister
1225
01:33:41,955 --> 01:33:44,708
and dealing with your shit all day long.
1226
01:33:44,833 --> 01:33:47,169
"Me, me, me! What does he think of me?"
1227
01:33:47,294 --> 01:33:50,547
But now, Arlette,
it's not you who can't breathe.
1228
01:33:50,672 --> 01:33:52,966
It's me. I'm suffocating.
1229
01:33:53,091 --> 01:33:54,176
You're sucking my air,
1230
01:33:54,301 --> 01:33:57,095
and that's not exactly
what I had in mind, Arlette!
1231
01:33:58,722 --> 01:34:01,808
Sort your own shit out.
1232
01:34:31,088 --> 01:34:32,464
What?
1233
01:34:34,758 --> 01:34:39,763
I just thought you could walk your dog
while you're at it.
1234
01:34:47,563 --> 01:34:48,981
Come here, puppy.
1235
01:34:49,565 --> 01:34:51,441
Come.
1236
01:35:28,562 --> 01:35:30,731
What do you have against me?
1237
01:35:31,607 --> 01:35:33,775
It is personal or general?
1238
01:35:43,785 --> 01:35:45,704
Cold as ice.
1239
01:35:47,956 --> 01:35:49,791
Zero emotion.
1240
01:35:51,460 --> 01:35:53,754
Always ready to fight to kill.
1241
01:35:55,297 --> 01:35:58,550
The perfect pit bull, but in reality...
1242
01:35:59,301 --> 01:36:01,637
his father-in-law's little puppy.
1243
01:36:05,891 --> 01:36:08,602
You married the establishment, Minister.
1244
01:36:08,727 --> 01:36:10,896
But you'll never really be part of it.
1245
01:36:11,897 --> 01:36:14,650
They'll always keep you in a separate room...
1246
01:36:15,234 --> 01:36:17,152
like with your wife!
1247
01:36:18,487 --> 01:36:22,533
To speak your language,
you pay all the expenses,
1248
01:36:22,658 --> 01:36:24,993
and they get all the profits.
1249
01:36:25,118 --> 01:36:28,789
A nice little doggy
who wags his tongue and shakes a paw.
1250
01:36:30,165 --> 01:36:33,544
Finally, the statue comes to life.
Am I getting under your skin?
1251
01:36:35,045 --> 01:36:36,547
You're not getting under my skin.
1252
01:36:36,672 --> 01:36:37,923
You're under my skin!
1253
01:36:41,176 --> 01:36:42,845
I can't stand you.
1254
01:36:43,679 --> 01:36:46,431
My skin crawls
when you show up in chambers.
1255
01:36:47,391 --> 01:36:48,976
You think you can do anything.
1256
01:36:49,101 --> 01:36:50,227
You don't give a shit.
1257
01:36:50,352 --> 01:36:53,230
Fuck the ministers. Fuck business.
Fuck our leaders.
1258
01:36:53,897 --> 01:36:55,732
Let me tell you something.
1259
01:36:56,900 --> 01:37:00,696
To anyone who knows anything,
you're a fucking loser.
1260
01:37:02,489 --> 01:37:04,491
Have you ever looked in the mirror?
1261
01:37:06,118 --> 01:37:09,121
You're just a worthless little doll.
1262
01:37:09,246 --> 01:37:11,415
A fucking empty shell.
1263
01:37:12,457 --> 01:37:14,668
You're nothing, and you always will be.
1264
01:37:15,586 --> 01:37:17,004
Idiot!
1265
01:37:51,538 --> 01:37:54,833
DOWN SOUTH RESTAURANT
OPEN 24 HOURS
1266
01:38:25,906 --> 01:38:28,075
DINER
OPEN 24 HOURS
1267
01:38:53,976 --> 01:38:55,477
Down, sir.
1268
01:39:14,121 --> 01:39:15,664
You look like hell.
1269
01:39:21,086 --> 01:39:22,254
Nothing for me, thanks.
1270
01:39:39,938 --> 01:39:43,233
I didn't think politics would be this hard.
1271
01:39:46,778 --> 01:39:49,823
You could have eyes
on the back of your head,
1272
01:39:49,948 --> 01:39:52,075
but you can't see everything coming.
1273
01:39:57,581 --> 01:39:59,124
It fucking hurts.
1274
01:40:05,797 --> 01:40:10,135
You work so hard,
and all you get is a slap on the face.
1275
01:40:13,055 --> 01:40:15,349
Like I did with you yesterday.
1276
01:40:16,850 --> 01:40:18,185
I'm sorry.
1277
01:40:29,238 --> 01:40:30,948
Can I ask you a question?
1278
01:40:38,914 --> 01:40:40,749
Who am I?
1279
01:40:46,338 --> 01:40:47,756
Who you are...
1280
01:40:49,591 --> 01:40:51,426
and who you've always been...
1281
01:40:54,429 --> 01:40:57,933
Arlette in all her glory.
1282
01:41:00,853 --> 01:41:02,271
That's it.
1283
01:41:05,607 --> 01:41:08,277
To you, I'm Arlette.
1284
01:41:13,115 --> 01:41:15,784
In politics, I'm Madam Minister.
1285
01:41:18,161 --> 01:41:19,955
It's as if...
1286
01:41:21,123 --> 01:41:23,625
It's as if I'm playing a part in a play.
1287
01:41:24,793 --> 01:41:28,005
When the actress leaves the stage
and looks in the mirror,
1288
01:41:28,130 --> 01:41:29,965
she becomes herself again.
1289
01:41:31,216 --> 01:41:32,634
But me...
1290
01:41:33,343 --> 01:41:37,306
when I leave the arena
and look in the mirror...
1291
01:41:40,058 --> 01:41:43,061
I become who I am again...
1292
01:41:45,480 --> 01:41:46,732
Arlette.
1293
01:41:51,987 --> 01:41:56,658
It's not me they stapled onto posts
to get elected.
1294
01:41:58,160 --> 01:41:59,661
It's the MNA.
1295
01:42:01,163 --> 01:42:05,334
It's not me they attacked yesterday.
1296
01:42:07,002 --> 01:42:08,420
It's the minister.
1297
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:14,551
I have to get used to it.
1298
01:42:15,844 --> 01:42:18,514
Let her live her life,
and I'll live mine.
1299
01:42:30,901 --> 01:42:36,782
The Big Leagues
1300
01:43:30,961 --> 01:43:33,589
The entire chamber is against you.
1301
01:43:44,641 --> 01:43:46,268
She has charm, Paul.
1302
01:43:47,561 --> 01:43:51,273
That's why you're so jealous.
1303
01:43:54,067 --> 01:43:56,987
I'm not a woman.
I don't need charm.
1304
01:43:58,572 --> 01:44:00,782
Charm doesn't have a gender.
1305
01:44:04,494 --> 01:44:05,746
When you were a kid...
1306
01:44:09,625 --> 01:44:11,627
did you have books at home?
1307
01:44:17,132 --> 01:44:20,677
...do you want to deprive children
in Quebec from having them?
1308
01:44:27,851 --> 01:44:31,146
Now you're the abuser.
1309
01:45:54,396 --> 01:45:58,358
Like a lot of you who are like me,
from humble origins...
1310
01:45:59,693 --> 01:46:02,029
I grew up in a house without books.
1311
01:46:04,656 --> 01:46:06,241
Which, believe me,
1312
01:46:06,742 --> 01:46:09,203
makes the poor even poorer.
1313
01:46:13,165 --> 01:46:16,084
No one should be punished
for being born poor!
1314
01:46:17,419 --> 01:46:20,964
And whether they come from rich
or underprivileged families,
1315
01:46:21,089 --> 01:46:25,302
every child in Quebec has a right
to share in the dividends of our culture.
1316
01:46:37,731 --> 01:46:41,360
Too many children like me
have never known the pleasure
1317
01:46:41,944 --> 01:46:44,029
of having a book of their very own.
1318
01:46:48,909 --> 01:46:53,664
That's why today, in this chamber,
I am announcing that the book tax
1319
01:46:53,789 --> 01:46:58,168
will be used to purchase novels,
poetry books and graphic novels,
1320
01:46:58,293 --> 01:47:02,881
which will be handed out for free
to all children in all of our schools.
1321
01:47:28,156 --> 01:47:30,534
Excellent budget, Mr. Minister. Well done.
1322
01:47:31,660 --> 01:47:33,370
And great performance!
1323
01:47:33,495 --> 01:47:36,164
I learned a lot, thanks to you.
1324
01:47:51,180 --> 01:47:53,891
Congratulations, Mr. Minister.
It's a beautiful gesture.
1325
01:47:54,016 --> 01:47:56,393
Don't be naive, Mr. Ducros.
1326
01:47:56,518 --> 01:48:00,022
In politics, everyone wants the bad guy
to be good deep down.
1327
01:48:01,231 --> 01:48:02,941
Good evening!
1328
01:48:05,903 --> 01:48:11,241
As you know, the last government
left us with crippling debts.
1329
01:48:11,366 --> 01:48:13,410
But after four years in power...
1330
01:48:25,214 --> 01:48:26,381
Madam Minister!
1331
01:48:27,216 --> 01:48:29,635
What you did for our children
is amazing.
1332
01:48:31,011 --> 01:48:33,305
Books are what keep me alive.
1333
01:48:33,430 --> 01:48:36,391
Or keep me from
dying of boredom on the night shift.
1334
01:48:40,521 --> 01:48:41,563
Thank you, Arlette.
1335
01:48:41,688 --> 01:48:43,232
My pleasure.
1336
01:49:16,098 --> 01:49:18,350
I took the liberty of ordering champagne.
1337
01:49:21,270 --> 01:49:22,646
Wonderful idea!
1338
01:49:27,234 --> 01:49:29,653
It's a presidential vintage.
1339
01:49:30,404 --> 01:49:34,908
It's sparkling, dignified...
1340
01:49:36,118 --> 01:49:38,495
Something sweet for the palate.
1341
01:49:39,955 --> 01:49:42,624
A sweet-talker. That's you.
1342
01:49:43,417 --> 01:49:44,334
Is that a flaw?
1343
01:49:44,459 --> 01:49:46,461
No, it's a strength.
1344
01:49:47,087 --> 01:49:48,797
Especially for a leader.
1345
01:49:49,423 --> 01:49:52,342
"Arlette Saint-Amour, I need you.
1346
01:49:52,467 --> 01:49:54,344
"Your charm, flair and audacity...
1347
01:49:54,469 --> 01:49:57,681
You have everything it takes
to make us more youthful."
1348
01:49:57,806 --> 01:50:01,476
In the end, Mr. Premier,
you used me.
1349
01:50:02,352 --> 01:50:05,898
You manipulated me
like a director manipulates his actress.
1350
01:50:08,025 --> 01:50:09,526
It's true.
1351
01:50:09,651 --> 01:50:13,822
The only way around it
is to become a director yourself.
1352
01:50:15,115 --> 01:50:16,074
To you!
1353
01:50:17,576 --> 01:50:20,245
To the end of my apprenticeship!
1354
01:50:25,667 --> 01:50:29,087
Which was a resounding success.
1355
01:50:30,339 --> 01:50:33,425
The art of politics
is not giving blows,
1356
01:50:33,550 --> 01:50:36,470
but knowing how to take them
when you need to.
1357
01:50:39,139 --> 01:50:40,599
That's just it.
1358
01:50:41,934 --> 01:50:45,729
You know I can no longer be satisfied
playing in the minor leagues.
1359
01:50:46,730 --> 01:50:48,315
You want to leave Culture?
1360
01:50:50,275 --> 01:50:52,694
But I need something concrete from you.
1361
01:50:54,154 --> 01:50:55,614
The $100 million.
1362
01:50:56,657 --> 01:50:58,700
It's my graduation gift.
1363
01:51:04,873 --> 01:51:08,919
I thought I'd round it up to $125.
1364
01:51:11,213 --> 01:51:12,506
Better...
1365
01:51:15,717 --> 01:51:19,096
But I know you well enough
to know you have an ulterior motive.
1366
01:51:21,181 --> 01:51:24,518
I'd like to add the role
of deputy premier to your job.
1367
01:51:25,185 --> 01:51:27,062
Another honorary title.
1368
01:51:28,063 --> 01:51:30,732
You know women are more than quotas?
1369
01:51:35,904 --> 01:51:38,991
Arlette, I want you by my side.
1370
01:51:41,869 --> 01:51:44,997
I probably won't run in the next election.
1371
01:51:45,539 --> 01:51:47,791
We need to take advantage
of the next few years
1372
01:51:47,916 --> 01:51:52,004
to block the path of someone
we don't want in power.
1373
01:51:53,380 --> 01:51:57,009
Will you be my heir?
1374
01:52:03,932 --> 01:52:07,769
That's better than a marriage proposal!
1375
01:52:09,938 --> 01:52:13,233
I'll give you time to reflect, but...
1376
01:52:13,942 --> 01:52:16,195
But you need an answer
as soon as possible?
1377
01:52:18,864 --> 01:52:20,115
Cheers.
1378
01:53:00,155 --> 01:53:01,990
I've thought it over.
1379
01:53:03,075 --> 01:53:03,992
It's a yes.
1380
01:53:17,005 --> 01:53:18,674
In life at court,
1381
01:53:18,799 --> 01:53:21,385
the ambitions, stakes, betrayals,
1382
01:53:21,510 --> 01:53:23,762
the successes and the failures,
1383
01:53:23,887 --> 01:53:25,430
it's all fleeting.
1384
01:53:25,556 --> 01:53:28,642
True or false, it doesn't matter.
1385
01:53:28,767 --> 01:53:32,604
Appearances change in time,
but the game endures.
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