French Canadian Identity Quotes

Traitor? Traitor to what? My country is Quebec!

My defense of the province [Quebec] would have succeeded had not this wretched people[the French Canadians] been blind to honor, duty, and their own interest.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

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.

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

Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.

Quebec is the Western world's last colonial nation.

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality.

English-speaking Canada, far from stifling Quebec, has acted...as a committed partner, a buffer, shielding its culture from the rest of an English-speaking continent that Quebecers perceive as a threatening force.

This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.

Where the French Canadian nation finds its freedom, that too will be its homeland.