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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This is a transition budget that was not worth triggering an election over.
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He presided over a cabinet in which the No. 2 man was Paul Martin,
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I'm very confident next time, next referendum, we'll win that referendum.
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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 went around Quebec saying the same thing I just said to you, and I see no opposition at all,
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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,
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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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Paul Martin couldn't not have noticed the articles in The Globe and Mail. That began in 1999, and it wasn't until February of 2004 that he reacted.
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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.
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I have never believed that things happen by themselves.
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It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.
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My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.
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Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?