Is it time to raise the GST? Plus: A Quebec judge throws the book at road rage.

Elias Makos kicks the week off with Christina Chough, Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College, and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

• The C.D. Howe Institute says the combination of Liberal election promises and new commitments to defence spending means the deficit would hit $77 billion a year
• Big Five panelist Raphaël Melançon penned a piece in the Montreal Gazette last week entitled “It’s time for Quebec to keep religion out of CEGEPs and universities”
• A Quebec judge just threw the book at someone convicted of road rage, handing out a 14-month sentence to a 57-year-old man