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{{title|We Are a Nation|[[Wikipedia:Bernard Landry|Bernard Landry]]|January 21, 2001<br /><br />Translated by [[User:Liberlogos|Benoît Rheault]] from:<br /><br />''[http://web.archive.org/web/20000619033351/http://www.pq.org/dis0507b.pdf Allocution prononcée à Verchères dans le cadre de la campagne au leadership pour le poste de président du Parti Québécois]''}}
#REDIRECT [[Speech Given in Verchères in the Context of the 2001 Leadership Campaign of the Parti Québécois]]
 
You must know if you really want to understand Quebec that we are not a distinct society, we are a Nation. That's quite different. A Nation just like Scotland. Would Tony Blair in London pretend that Scotland in just the same then? Scotland is a Nation and it is generously and realistically accepted by London and by the English. Ireland is a Nation too, that's for sure. ''And I say it in French'', I will translate for the rest of Canada also. ''Irland, this year, for the first time in its history, has surpassed England in gross domestic product per capita. I ask you the question: if they hadn't achieved their independence in 1921, this day would have never come, would it?'' So, the [leader] of the Official Opposition in Quebec told me a couple of times: in your policy, do like Ireland, do like Ireland... and he has some Irish roots like a great proportion, by the way, of [the] Quebec population. I cannot do what Ireland does because I [only have] provincial powers. But give us the same powers ''and'' watch us go!
 
== Notes ==
This is a translated excerpt of the speech transcript titled ''Allocution prononcée à Verchères dans le cadre de la campagne au leadership pour le poste de président du Parti Québécois''. This is an original and unofficial translation for this site.
 
 
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