In the wake of Premier François Legault’s resignation announcement last week, there’s a void in Quebec politics a number of suitors are looking to fill.

One of them is Conservative Party of Quebec Leader Éric Duhaime. He’s trying to differentiate his party from the sovereignist Parti Québécois, as well as the Quebec Liberals and Coalition Avenir Québec, who are both looking for new leaders.

Will Quebecers latch on to Duhaime’s message this time around? He joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode at the Snowdon Deli to tout his party as an alternative for federalist voters.

It was not a total surprise François Legault resigned as Premier of Quebec this week. But the timing of it caught many off-guard.

Legault's resignation on Wednesday sent shockwaves across the political landscape, and with a provincial election coming up in October, there's even more uncertainty about what's to come for Quebec.

To make sense of it all, former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister David Heurtel joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli.

In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's ousting of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his increased rhetoric about annexing Greenland, how worried should Canadians be about entering Trump's crosshairs?

Two Americans living in Montreal — Jacob Blanc, Associate Professor, McGill University and Graham G. Dodds, PhD, Political Science Professor, Concordia University — joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's episode of The Corner Booth at the Snowdon Deli to discuss how Trump's latest actions spell more uncertainty for Canada.

Times have changed in the world of organized crime. Not only are things becoming less and less centralized, younger people — including teens — are getting involved.

With the criminal underworld in flux, will Montreal police be able to adapt to these new challenges? Retired police detective Pietro Poletti shared his unfiltered thoughts on the state of organized crime and Montreal police with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode at Snowdon Deli.

Marc Miller hasn’t been Official Languages Minister for long, but he’s already made some noise.

The former Justin Trudeau cabinet minister joined Mark Carney’s cabinet in the most recent shuffle, after being snubbed the first time. He drew immediate backlash from some, including Quebec Premier François Legault, when he said he was “fed up” with the debate over the decline of French.

Miller sat down with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode at Snowdon Deli to discuss the fallout of his first salvo with his new portfolio.

On this week's special year-in-review episode of The Corner Booth, guests Martine St-Victor and Raphaël Melançon, along with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand, were given a near-impossible task:

How do you cram 12 months of jaw-dropping headlines at the federal, provincial and municipal levels into one episode?

Incredibly, they got it done. And without letting their Snowdon Deli platters get cold and dry.

There's never a dull moment in Quebec politics, but even by the province's standards, these recent times appear to be unprecedented.

And that's coming from some of the province's most-respected legal experts.

According to the head of the Quebec Bar, three bills from the CAQ recently presented at Quebec’s National Assembly — the proposed constitution, one on unions and the other on doctor pay — show signs of an authoritarian drift that threatens the rule of law.

Two lawyers specializing in human rights and constitutional rights, Julius Grey and Frédéric Bérard, joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to sound the alarm on the "autocratic" bills.

" My biggest issue is that it's a constitution that seems to want to freeze present CAQ opinions about all sorts of issues: secularism, language and so on, forever," said Grey. " They claim to be an open nationalism, but their nationalism is a closed one. Become exactly like us, or you're not one of us."

Bérard called section five of the constitution "probably the worst section I've seen in my whole life," before adding "so what kind of regime in the world prevent institutions from challenging the constitutionality of laws? It's not democracy."

Grey said by saying no to challenges, the Quebec government is ostensibly making it impossible for an individual to challenge the province, since the average person can't afford the legal costs it would entail.

"The government is clearly anti-union anyway. It's got a law reducing the powers of unions. It's a government that's reducing the rights of tenants as opposed to landlords. It's a government that is attacking the English minority. It's attacking immigrants. What we have is a clear authoritarian right-wing government," Grey said.

"The CAQ is going even further than Duplessis because Duplessis never thought about preventing people from challenging bills," Bérard said.

"It's a first for Quebec. It's a very sad day, in my opinion."

The Parti Québécois are leading in the polls with a provincial election coming next year.

At the moment, their competition is in disarray. The sagging CAQ and premier François Legault are facing the wrath of doctors over Bill 2's proposed renumeration reforms, while the Quebec Liberals are imploding over an alleged vote-buying scheme.

So even though leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is sitting pretty and promising a referendum on Quebec independence in his first term, he still wants anglophone and allophone voters to join his party.

The PQ leader laid out his case for why together isn't better with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on the latest episode of The Corner Booth at the Snowdon Deli. St-Pierre Plamondon discussed the prospect of a new currency, dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump and the status of the CAQ and Quebec Liberals.