it's the mustache *BG*. He had an edge of Casey, of Casey and Finnegan that made him too wooden to come off totally as a used car salesman, to me, but he was sure selling and not debating. Actually I didn't get the impression he was pandering to the separtists, as much as the separtists were pandering to him, which left him at a loss, because he couldn't find an appropriate cue in his ridgid script. Cunning ploy on the part of Duceppe.