Quebec Separatism Quotes

My husband was a hospital architect and he was working on some hospitals in Alberta, and I told him to try to find out what they thought about separatism. He would come back on weekends. He said "well, I think I found out how they feel about separatism. I brought it up at lunch in the cafeteria, and everybody at the table was silent and then somebody said 'Let's change the subject'."

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

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

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.

Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice.

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

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

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.

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 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.

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

Let's see in those indictments you can't level at Sweden, they never tried to ban the constitution or undermine the settlement that they wanted. Well you can't say that of Canada. Any indication of revolt on the part of Quebec was either bought off, with a good deal of corruption.

Why should Ontario pay for Quebec's fucking?