The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was - Hardcover

"[Chantal Hebert] may be the country's most consistently insightful analyst of federal politics, especially as it plays in Quebec." --"Maclean's"
"Hebert possesses an unparalleled aptitude for political analysis." --Hour.ca
"["French Kiss"] not only reads the entrails of the last federal election, but offers a sober--and sobering--assessment of the Canadian political firmament as we speak. . . . It's very good work. --"Edmonton Journal"

FINALIST 2014 - QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
LONGLISTED 2015 - BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
"[Chantal HEbert] may be the country's most consistently insightful analyst of federal politics, especially as it plays in Quebec."
--"Maclean's"
"HEbert possesses an unparalleled aptitude for political analysis."
--Hour.ca
"["French Kiss"] not only reads the entrails of the last federal election, but offers a sober--and sobering--assessment of the Canadian political firmament as we speak. . . . It's very good work.
--"Edmonton Journal"

FINALIST 2014 QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
LONGLISTED 2015 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
"[Chantal Hebert] may be the country's most consistently insightful analyst of federal politics, especially as it plays in Quebec."
--"Maclean's"
"Hebert possesses an unparalleled aptitude for political analysis."
--Hour.ca
"["French Kiss"] not only reads the entrails of the last federal election, but offers a sober--and sobering--assessment of the Canadian political firmament as we speak. . . . It's very good work.
--"Edmonton Journal""

A sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's most popular political analysts, Chantal Hébert, and one of Quebec's top political broadcasters, Jean Lapierre.
Only the most fearless of political journalists would dare to open the old wounds of the 1995 Quebec referendum, a still-murky episode in Canadian history that continues to defy our understanding. The referendum brought one of the world's most successful democracies to the brink of the unknown, and yet Quebecers' attitudes toward sovereignty continue to baffle the country's political class. Interviewing 17 key political leaders from the duelling referendum camps, Hébert and Lapierre begin with a simple premise: asking what were these political leaders' plans if the vote had gone the other way. Even 2 decades later, their answers may shock you. And in asking an unexpected question, these veteran political observers cleverly expose the fractures, tensions and fears that continue to shape Canada today.