Gilles Duceppe
Gilles Duceppe
Gilles Duceppeis a Canadian politician, proponent of the Québec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and has been the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois for 15 years in three stints: 1996, 1997-2011 and in 2015. He is the son of a well-known Quebec actor, Jean Duceppe. He was Leader of the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada from...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 July 1947
CityMontreal, Canada
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Thank you, everyone. That touches me right in the heart.
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I think he made the right decision. The situation has changed. He knows this himself. We have to take this into account and he did.
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I don't think we have to wait for the second report. It's up to the Canadian people to judge this party, the Liberal party.
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We will be responsible. When something that is proposed that is good for Quebec, we will support that.
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Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?
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When they don't have the moral authority to govern, we have to express what Quebeckers think, and I think Quebeckers don't want the Liberals any more. So we're expressing the voices of all those that elected us.
We don't know concretely what he is proposing.
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They no longer have the moral authority to govern,
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This is the worst thing that can happen in a democracy, and I'm saying that against the Liberal Party,
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This is a transition budget that was not worth triggering an election over.
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I think it's very clear, and the reaction today, on TV, on radio, all of them go in the same sense, ... people say they just don't believe Paul Martin wasn't involved. If he didn't see, it's because he didn't want to see.
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It could help the country, it could help the farmers, it could help the taxi drivers and so on. We have to do something. This is a crisis. It touches a lot of people, especially the forest people,
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It is in their interest to negotiate with a sovereign Quebec for the best interests of both peoples,
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I went around Quebec saying the same thing I just said to you, and I see no opposition at all,