Gilles Duceppe

“My country is Quebec, and my citizenship is Canadian.”

“We will work with the government when it is in the interests of Quebec. We will oppose the government when it is not in the interests of Quebec.”

“We are not here to be the best opposition party, we are here to make Quebec a country.”

“I have always said that the day Quebec becomes sovereign, the Bloc Québécois will disappear.”

“Sovereignty is not a project of closure, but of opening up to the world.”

“The people of Quebec have the right to choose their own future.”

“A strong Quebec within Canada is a myth.”

“We are asking for what is due to us, nothing more, nothing less.”

“For us, the nation of Quebec is not a question of ethnicity, but of territory and shared values.”

“It is possible to be a sovereigntist in Quebec and a federalist in the rest of Canada.”

“We are sovereigntists, yes, but we are also democrats.”