CHANTAL H BERT is a national affairs writer with the Toronto Star and a guest columnist for L'Actualit . She is a weekly participant on the political panel "At Issue" on CBC's The National as well as Radio-Canada's Les Coulisses du pouvoir. Her first book is French Kiss: Stephen Harper's Blind Date with Quebec. H bert is a past recipient of the Hyman Solomon prize for excellence in journalism and public policy.JEAN LAPIERRE is a political commentator for CTV and TVA television networks. He has a daily commentary on the Cogeco radio stations and on CJAD Montreal. In his previous life as a Member of Parliament he served in John Turner's and Paul Martin's Liberal cabinets. In between he was a… founding member of the Bloc Qu b cois. The author lives in Ottawa, ON; Les Iles-de-la-Madeleine, QC.