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GOVERNMENT OF
LUCIEN BOUCHARD
(JANUARY 29, 1996 TO MARCH 8, 2001)
••• Status of Québec
377.
In North America, Québec is the only
society with a French-Speaking majority, a well-defined territorial base, and
political institutions it controls....
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96
GOVERNMENT OF
LUCIEN BOUCHARD
(JANUARY 29, 1996 TO MARCH 8, 2001)
••• Status of Québec
377.
In North America, Québec is the only
society with a French-Speaking majority, a well-defined territorial base, and
political institutions it controls.
The
people of Québec possess all the traditional characteristics of a nation.
[.
.
.
] The Québec people subscribe to
the democratic concept of a FrenchSpeaking nation, pluralist in its culture,
and open to international immigration
[.
.
.
].
399
378.
[In the Bertrand case], the federal
government took the serious decision
to go before a court to assert that the
future of Quebecers does not belong
to them.
[.
.
.
] To those who would have
forgotten, to those who would deny it,
to those who fear the strength of
Québec, but mainly to us, who must
state loud and clear that we are entitled to dispose of our own destiny,
that we have set the most democratic
rules of all, that we have respected
the popular vo
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