Pierre Bourgault Quotes

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

We want an independent Quebec within a strong and united Canada.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.

I don't expect my children to suffer much if Quebec should withdraw or Canada withdraw from Quebec. ... Yet it's been a lovely place to grow up in …

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.

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 want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority government can do it, a sovereigntist government of the Parti Quebecois.

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

Traitor? Traitor to what? My country is Quebec!

A Canadian nationality—not French-Canadian, not British-Canadian, nor Irish-Canadian: patriotism rejects the prefix ... is what we should look forward to.

I am branded in Quebec as a traitor to the French, and in Ontario as a traitor to the English. In Quebec I am branded as a Jingo, and in Ontario as a separatist. In Quebec I am attacked is an imperialists, and in Ontario as an anti-imperialist. I am neither. I am a Canadian.

The emphasis of that statement about my temptation to switch to the separatist side in Quebec was that someone who obviously loves Canada with everything he has, has been right here and fights for Canada all the time - for him to say something like that, something must be very wrong with Canada.

Quebec will secede from Canada and form an independent republic. The 3 prairie provinces--Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba--will likewise secede and become part of the U.S.

I hope we shall never be disposed to offer to join the United States. They will display a great reluctance to take us but I believe we have a future of our own here.

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

There will be no annexation of ourselves or our territory to an independent Quebec without our consent.

Canada is not another [American] State, and we don't want to be one.

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

We [French Canadians] may not assimilate, we may not blend, but for all that we are still the component parts of the same country.

We should have mastered Quebec and been in possession of Canada.

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.

New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.