Ideas on CBC Radio explores the ideas of Pierre Bédard, early Quebec politician and theorist of parliamentary government, tomorrow night (and doubtless via streaming, podcasts, Sirius sat-radio and what have you). Here's the DCB account of his life, and here's the Ideas' blurb
A bronze bust of Pierre Bédard was recently unveiled in the Quebec National Assembly. Bédard was a journalist, politician, judge and nationalist leader Lower Canada, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was an early advocate of responsible government. Bédard was also a philosopher who engaged in imaginary dialogues with Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot and Montesquieu. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy explores his significance for Quebec today.
