Ruba Ghazal
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Sep 24, 2026
Émilie NicolasGUEST
Uh, not necessarily.
Émilie NicolasGUEST
The two people that can benefit a little bit more from this kind of, uh, exercise is Charles Milliard as the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, and Ruba Ghazal as the leader of Québec Solidaire, because, uh, before the campaign, those were the two leaders that were less known, and, uh, the, this is where you had the most people, uh- When you ask what they thought about them, answering, "I don't know." And so, um, if, uh, people like their performance, it can translate people who are indifferent into a little bit more votes.
Émilie NicolasGUEST
Uh, but, but it's more about a getting out the vote exercise, getting people who like a party leader to like them enough to actually get to the polls, and also getting people who really dislike someone to, uh, make sure to get to the poll and, and, and, and vote against them.
Émilie NicolasGUEST
I think there's gonna be, depending on the region, probably a lot of, uh, huddle for trying to think about strategic voting, uh, perhaps even in some riding, given that there's five parties and that it's gonna be getting close in some region.
Alexa LavoieCORRESPONDENT
There wasn't enough time for every journalist to question all five leaders.
Alexa LavoieCORRESPONDENT
The first leader to come out was Ruba Ghazal, spokesperson for Québec solidaire, who is the far-left party in Québec.
Alexa LavoieCORRESPONDENT
I didn't get to question her, but here is what I wanted to ask.
Alexa LavoieCORRESPONDENT
On November 2nd, 2023, she shared a post containing the slogan, From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
Andrew CarterHOST
Yeah
Tom MulcairGUEST
... uh, especially at the expense of, uh, of Éric Duhaime and, um, Ruba Ghazal.
Tom MulcairGUEST
So I mean, there was a huge problem of equity there.
Tom MulcairGUEST
At one point, and she has to do it carefully because you're taking on the moderator, and you don't wanna p-appear to be whining, but Ruba Ghazal looked at Roy and said, "I'm sorry, but are you looking at the time? How, how, how much less time I'm being given than the others?" He says, "Don't worry, I'll correct it by the end." She goes, "Really? Like, magically you're just gonna give me more time at the end?" Which of course never happened.
Tom MulcairGUEST
So that was a huge flaw.
Tom MulcairGUEST
On the substance of the debate, one key debate took place, and it was about a referendum on sovereignty, and it was good to see the, the ones who say that they're steadfastly against a, a referendum come out of the closet clearly for once.
Tom MulcairGUEST
But if...
Tom MulcairGUEST
It was a great moment for Milliard to remind everybody that everybody there was on the separatist side at one point during their career.
Tom MulcairGUEST
But what was interesting here is they, and I love this concept, by the way, they had the five names of the participants in order on the wall behind him, and they had their times up there, which was great because it gave you the impression that he was going to fight hard to give equal time to everybody.
Tom MulcairGUEST
Well, don't you know that Paul St-Pierre Plamondon wound up getting five minutes more? than other participants in the debate, especially at the expense of Eric Durem and Ruba Ghazal.
Tom MulcairGUEST
So, I mean, there was a huge problem of equity there at one point.
Tom MulcairGUEST
And she has to do it carefully because you're taking on the moderator and you don't want to appear to be whining.
Tom MulcairGUEST
But Ruba Ghazal looked at Roy and said, I'm sorry, but.
Tom MulcairGUEST
are you looking at the time? How much less time I'm being given than the others? He says, don't worry, I'll correct it by the end.
Tom MulcairGUEST
She goes, really? Like magically, you're just going to give me more time at the end, which of course never happened.
Elias MakosHOST
Victor, Dan, which one of you advised, you know, 'cause you guys deal with media consulting and all that stuff.
Elias MakosHOST
Which one of you told Ruba Ghazal, "Hey, when you show up at Radio-Canada, make sure all of your supporters only have Palestinian flags.
Elias MakosHOST
Make sure you don't have a Quebec flag there." Which one of you was responsible for that?
Victor HenriquezPANELIST
We don't talk to-
34 MINS LATER
Elias MakosHOST
If you're on hold, hang on the line.
Elias MakosHOST
I'll get you in the next hour of the show right after the news, and when we return, you're also gonna hear, in English, the two leaders you haven't heard from yet.
Elias MakosHOST
Ruba Ghazal from Québec Solidaire, she had a message for Anglos last night.
Elias MakosHOST
A- and, and in fact, the only person during the debate who mentioned Anglophones at all was Ruba Ghazal, and you'll also hear from Eric Duhaime, his message to Anglophones, so stay tuned.
Elias MakosHOST
And I think it also changes Charles Milliard's fate quite a bit.
Elias MakosHOST
Guys, just for tonight, is there anyone else on that stage? You know, we haven't talked about Christine Frechette and Ruba Ghazal.
Elias MakosHOST
Is there anything else you're looking for tonight, Andrew? How big of a deal is this final debate?
Andrew CadellPANELIST
Well, the thing that you haven't seen yet is an angry PSPP.
Trudie MasonCORRESPONDENT
Yeah, he says that it's not as if these parties are telling women they have to have more babies, it's that they're offering to families who wish to have more kids an incentive to do so.
Trudie MasonCORRESPONDENT
So he doesn't understand why Christine Frechette and Ruba Ghazal together have been implying that this is some type of a... you know, a fascist plot wrought by the patriarchy.
Andrew CarterHOST
The patriarchy.
Andrew CarterHOST
Yeah.
David HeurtelGUEST
Yeah, the bromance.
David HeurtelGUEST
That's Ruba Ghazal's expression of Quebec solidaire.
David HeurtelGUEST
But, I mean, both leaders, both Durham and Saint-Jean-Pierre-Maldon, denied this.
David HeurtelGUEST
But this is an attack... that Kristen Frechette is trying to do, because for her to be able to even challenge, for government, in the last two weeks, she has to convince francophone Quebecers, especially in the 450 area code, that she's going to be talking more and more, and you're going to see this, to soft conservative voters and soft liberal voters, saying, I'm the only option to stop the PQ and the threat of a referendum.
Jimmy ZoubrisPANELIST
It goes to show that Duane probably had the best performance of all the leaders at the two debates, if you add both of them.
Jimmy ZoubrisPANELIST
And I thought Ruba Ghazal was much better in the second one than she was in the first one.
Jimmy ZoubrisPANELIST
And then maybe the couple of points she went up could be an indication of that.
Jimmy ZoubrisPANELIST
The 19% the Liberals has is much better than the 18% the Conservatives have because it still means they're going to carry a lot of the West.
JayHOST
I also found it, like, really hard to watch because it was so fucking boring.
JayHOST
And because I kept waiting for Ruba Ghazal, the leader of Quebec Soldat, to... say anything that kind of like sounded interesting or exciting or to sort of like attack the other leaders in any way.
JayHOST
And it really is crazy because there's five political parties and the other four are like, basically like exactly the same like it's like actually like really fucking crazy how they all have the same policies uh all the leaders have the same backgrounds which i'm going to get into uh there's two gay conservatives um and then two like nerds with tiny heads and they're just all the same person like it's like fucking crazy
Louise NachetGUEST
yeah christine frechette in particular has a emoji face kind of vibe but
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