Quote by Pierre Trudeau

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…

— Michael Ignatieff

All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the…

— Anonymous

Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I had violently…

— Pierre Bourgault

Make no mistake: one is not a better Quebecer because one speaks French. One is not less of a Quebecer because one speaks English.…

— Pierre Moreau

Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we…

— Anonymous

“When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in ‘normal’ French, as if the language they speak in…

— Stephen Clarke

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

— Lionel Jospin

You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going…

— Pauline Marois

I want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority…

— Pauline Marois

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

— Cory Monteith

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

— Stephen Harper

We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the…

— Jack Layton