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GOVERNMENT OF
JEAN-JACQUES BERTRAND
(OCTOBER 2, 1968 TO APRIL 29, 1970)
••• Status of Québec
104.
What is important for French Canadians in Québec is not to be able to
speak their language anywhere in
Canada, but to be able, collectively, to...
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GOVERNMENT OF
JEAN-JACQUES BERTRAND
(OCTOBER 2, 1968 TO APRIL 29, 1970)
••• Status of Québec
104.
What is important for French Canadians in Québec is not to be able to
speak their language anywhere in
Canada, but to be able, collectively, to
live in French, to build a society in
their image.
That is possible only if
the Québec government has powers in
proportion to the tasks the population
expects it to carry out.
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105.
It is essential that French Canada, of
which Québec is the cornerstone,
have the conviction that it will find all
the elements necessary for its development within the Canadian federation.
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••• Constitutional reform process
106.
What we must look for is the constitutional system that can reconcile the full
development of both cultural communities in Canada with the imperatives
of economic solidarity.
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107.
A constitutional declaration of human
rights must be passed at the same time
as the new Constitution, but not before.
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