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{{title|We Are a Nation|[[Wikipedia:Bernard Landry|Bernard Landry]]|January 21, 2001<br /><br />Excerpt | {{title|We Are a Nation|[[Wikipedia:Bernard Landry|Bernard Landry]]|January 21, 2001<br /><br />Excerpt 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]''}} | ||
[...] A few words, now, to our friends from the rest of Canada. I address myself to our friends in Canada outside Quebec who speak English. It's a word of frankness — I will be frank and blunt — which is a sign of respect and esteem. We tell the truth to our friends and that truth is the following. 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. ''Ireland, 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! | [...] A few words, now, to our friends from the rest of Canada. I address myself to our friends in Canada outside Quebec who speak English. It's a word of frankness — I will be frank and blunt — which is a sign of respect and esteem. We tell the truth to our friends and that truth is the following. 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. ''Ireland, 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! | ||