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
country wall spring
Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question.
country want canada
I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.
confident next win
I'm very confident next time, next referendum, we'll win that referendum.
good proposed support
We will be responsible. When something that is proposed that is good for Quebec, we will support that.
thank touches
Thank you, everyone. That touches me right in the heart.
budget election transition worth
This is a transition budget that was not worth triggering an election over.
We don't know concretely what he is proposing.
authority longer moral
They no longer have the moral authority to govern,
against democracy happen liberal saying worst
This is the worst thing that can happen in a democracy, and I'm saying that against the Liberal Party,
interest jean leaked surprising
It has that air, ... It would be surprising if it was Jean Chretien that leaked that part of the report. Who has an interest in doing that?
army army-and-navy democracy develop either foreign inside intervene mainly natural outside policy quebec secure
If you develop a foreign policy the way we see it, then we'll have an army that will intervene mainly to secure democracy in some countries, participating in international forces, going when there's a natural catastrophe, either inside Quebec or outside Quebec,
authority elected express expressing liberals moral voices
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.
chance government prepared speech stays vote
If the speech stays like this, we're prepared to give the government a chance and vote for (the speech).
class concerns government
Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?