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Long live free Quebec!
They call me the Albertan of Quebec. It stuck.
We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.
Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.
My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.
The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.
In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.
Something I don't want to do, ever, is to put Quebec in a position of weakness.
I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer.
From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.
I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.
I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all.
We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.
Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.
There's no question in my mind that there's a problem with the funding of our universities here in Quebec.
We have to redesign the finances of the Quebec state to preserve what counts: education, health and families.
They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.
Whether it's in America, Quebec, or France, if I can tell a story that takes me out of my comfort zone, then I'm surfing.
We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.
We have a tendency in Quebec - and I include myself in this - to describe ourselves using the past. We're always nostalgic.
I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.
Growing up in Quebec, we were always playing sports. Your first athletic competition was against the kids living on your block.
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.
If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.
We must give less money to these provinces, like my own province of Quebec, and give them the right incentive to develop their own natural resources and their economy.
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and Montreal is an island where the city is in Quebec.
I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.
My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent.
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.
I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec were to separate, I would feel I had been cut in two.
Sovereigntism and separatism they are… it may seem like it's splitting hairs, but a lot of Quebecers are sovereignists - they respect the sovereignty of Quebec. They're not interested in separating.
In Quebec City many Muslims have said that they hide their faith because they know that if they don't, if they show that they are Muslims, practicing Muslims, they won't be accepted in Quebec society.
If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.
In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal.
Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?
I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
I'd really love to go for a fourth trip into space with maybe Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Boisclair, and I am convinced, I am convinced that after such a trip, Quebec sovereignty will no longer be an issue. Space travel affects us that much.