Who doesn't feel queasy about federal politics these days? Add former CBC senior parliamentary editor and Newsworld Politics host Don Newman, who can finally speak his mind now that he's retired from the Mother Corp.

"If bankers talked about each other the way politicians talk, we would all keep our money in a sock under the mattress," he says. "We have to convince politicians to work together, to change the way they treat each other."

Right. We wish. But there's one big difference between him and the rest of us. He's got a clear and practical idea of how to do that.