People From Quebec

"Lethwei is more popular than ever, and I am proud to be behind this. I'm bringing Lethwei to the world, and bringing fame to Myanmar which will bring more tourism and more money to the people."

"I like extreme. I never like to be normal. F*** normal. I’m the black sheep in life. I’m the weird one and I like that."

"In life you don’t ‘half-ass’ things. So I thought; I want to fight, why not do the most brutal sport in the world?"

"I would prefer fighting foreign fighters to show the true power of Lethwei against other martial arts."

"When it came to fighting convicts, Leduc said: "I wouldn't feel bad if I win and my rival's sentence isn't reduced. They do not fight for money, they fight for their freedom. I only fight for honor and glory. [...] They deserve to get my 100%, if he wins, then he earns it.""

"Now, I’m telling you. Mark my fucking words. This, it’ s going to be a clear and decisive win. I don’t know how it’s going to happen. I just want to let my body freely move with headbutts and elbows, I don’t care. I just want to finish the guy."

"A human being grows up seeing the opportunity behind each difficulty."

"Poetry is a metaphysical blend with images of life, landscapes and noble delights of feelings and emotions. With a soul of power, the poet is dedicated to writing in his highest thoughts."

"Poetry translates our values."

"In retirement, it's easy not to notice budget deviations."

"Stop smoking and get rich."

"Our story is part of one of the greatest national treasures. It is appropriate to consider it at the level of the culture of a people. Never too much effort will be made for the knowledge of history."

"Act on what you can control, what's yours."

"Nothing can be done to change the past. Let's live in the moment, the future is ahead of us."

"Often, by picturing the worst that can reasonably happen, one realizes that the situation is not as catastrophic as imagined."

"Your honour, At this point that I am free to clear my heart and my mind, I would like to say to you, your honour and everyone: Every minute of my existence, I bitterly regret what I did, the lives that I destroyed, the grief and the immense pain that I inflicted on so many people, including the members of my own family. I am ashamed, ashamed of what I did. I do not know why I committed such a senseless act. And to this day, I have a hard time believing it. In spite of what has been said about me, I am not a terrorist, nor an Islamophobe, rather a person who was carried away by fear, negative thoughts and a horrible form of despair. For a long time, I had suicidal thoughts and an obsession with death. As if I was fighting with a demon who ended up getting the best of me, who ended up winning against me. I very much wish I could go back in time and change things. Sometimes, I feel that all of this is a bad dream, a long nightmare. I would like to ask you for forgiveness for all the harm that I have done to you, but I know that what I did is unforgivable. If by pleading guilty, I can do a bit of good in all of this, then it will at least be something. This is why I am pleading guilty before you."

"He was a pro-Israel and pro-Trump guy, He didn't have his arms open to immigrants you could say. He was against all gun control. He could have been a perfect Republican. When we were in person and working on the paper, he was a normal guy, he was timid. An introvert who didn't speak to a lot of people. I never would have talked to him if I wasn't forced to be with him by the professors, He didn't make a lot of friends in our classes and didn't ask a lot of questions but on Facebook he was more aggressive, like a troll. He was always challenging people on Facebook, he could be very rude. he didn't want to have a constructive argument with people, he just wanted to say anything and start a fire. He never spoke of violence as a political way of expressing himself. He never talked about violence and seemed to be against violence in general. So I think that in the last year, there was a radicalization process."

"Alex was an internet troll. He liked to confront people online, but was not a violent kind of person. He likes to hear himself talk"

"For me, it wasn’t a big surprise, you know? Because if we look at people who do these kinds of things, usually they always seem to have the same patterns. Introverts, a little bit anti-social, different in a way, isolated, .. but I didn't recall Alexandre to respond in any violent way, He was an outsider for sure. He dressed differently, he behaved differently. And people didn’t seem to understand the way he was at that time, that’s for sure. Usually he had a little smile but it's difficult to say what is going through his head."

"He never seemed to take it like personally, He had an almost happy attitude about it. Someone [would] tell him, 'You're ugly,' and he would say, 'You too are ugly.'"

"I'd hear a piano It got to the point where I had trouble sleeping It was beautiful so I didn't mind it that much"

"It never occurred to me he might be violent"

"He was a really good guy, A very generous kind of guy, always listening, polite."

"I'd like to ask for your forgiveness for all the harm I caused you, even though I know what I did is unforgivable, In spite of everything that was said, I am not a terrorist, nor Islamophobic … [I am] more a person who was carried away by fear and a horrible form of despair. I don't know why I committed such a senseless act."

"This was a leader who listened to all sides, perhaps too much."

"First of all we must insist that the immigrant that comes here is willing to become a Canadian and is willing to assimilate our ways, he should be treated on equal grounds and it would be shameful to discriminate against such a person for reasons of their beliefs or the place of birth or origin. But it is the responsibility of that person to become a Canadian in all aspects of life, nothing else but a Canadian. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says that he is a Canadian, but tries to impose his customs and habits upon us, is not a Canadian. We have room for only one flag, the Canadian flag. There is room for only two languages here, English and French. And we have room for loyalty, but only one, loyalty to the Canadian people. We won’t accept anyone, I’m saying anyone, who will try to impose his religion or his customs on us."

"It was Prime Minister Laurier who said of Canada's differing components: "I want the marble to remain the marble; I want the granite to remain the granite; I want the oak to remain the oak." This has been the Canadian way. As a result, Canadians have helped to teach the world, as Governor-General Massey once said, that the "toleration of differences is the measure of civilization." Today, more than ever before, we need to apply that understanding to the whole range of world affairs. And to begin with, we must apply it to our dealings with one another."

"Racists are not welcome in this party"

"A lesson from this great novelist: The classical liberal tradition is what made us a free, peaceful and prosperous country. We should cherish it and proudly proclaim the moral high ground when defending this tradition against those who want to impose Big Government upon us."

"You know, some people like to call me Mad Max like in the movie. They may believe it’s an insult. But let me tell you something: It’s true. I am mad! I’m mad about government waste! I’m mad about government borrowing money on the backs of future generations, to benefit big corporations! I’M MAD THAT THE LIBERALS ARE RUNNING OUR COUNTRY’S FINANCES, AND OUR NATION’S FUTURE, INTO THE GROUND! I’M MAD THAT THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT SHRINKS OUR PAYCHECK WITH HIGHT TAXES AND TAKES AWAY OUR FREEDOM. I’m mad about the federal government constantly meddling in provincial jurisdictions! I’m mad at politicians who promise anything to get elected! So yes, you can call me Mad Max. I don’t mind! I’m asking you to get mad like me and take your future into your hands."

"Je suis en politique pour défendre des principes. Je l'ai dit dès le début de la campagne, lorsqu'on croit au libre marché, à la liberté économique et qu'on veut défendre les consommateurs, il y a peut-être un prix à payer. Je suis prêt à le payer ce prix politique là."

"During the final months of the campaign, as polls indicated that I had a real chance of becoming the next leader, opposition from the supply management lobby gathered speed. Radio-Canada reported on dairy farmers who were busy selling Conservative Party memberships across Quebec. A Facebook page called Les amis de la gestion de l’offre et des régions (Friends of supply management and regions) was set up and had gathered more than 10,500 members by early May. As members started receiving their ballots by mail from the party, its creator, Jacques Roy, asked them to vote for Andrew Scheer. Andrew, along with several other candidates, was then busy touring Quebec’s agricultural belt, including my own riding of Beauce, to pick up support from these fake Conservatives, only interested in blocking my candidacy and protecting their privileges. Interestingly, one year later, most of them have not renewed their memberships and are not members of the party anymore. During these last months of the campaign, the number of members in Quebec had increased considerably, from about 6,000 to more than 16,000. In April 2018, according to my estimates, we are down to about 6,000 again. A few days after the vote, Éric Grenier, a political analyst at the CBC, calculated that if only 66 voters in a few key ridings had voted differently, I could have won. The points system, by which every riding in the country represented 100 points regardless of the number of members they had, gave outsized importance in the vote to a handful of ridings with few members. Of course, a lot more than 66 supply management farmers voted, likely thousands of them in Quebec, Ontario, and the other provinces. I even lost my riding of Beauce by 51% to 49%, the same proportion as the national vote. At the annual press gallery dinner in Ottawa a few days after the vote, a gala where personalities make fun of political events of the past year, Andrew was said to have gotten the most laughs when he declared: “I certainly don’t owe my leadership victory to anybody…”, stopping in mid-sentence to take a swig of 2% milk from the carton. “It’s a high quality drink and it’s affordable too.” Of course, it was so funny because everybody in the room knew that was precisely why he got elected. He did what he thought he had to do to get the most votes, and that is fair game in a democratic system. But this also helps explain why so many people are so cynical about politics, and with good reason."

"Trudeau keeps pushing his “diversity is our strength” slogan. Yes, Canada is a huge and diverse country. This diversity is part of us and should be celebrated. But where do we draw the line? Ethnic, religious, linguistic, sexual and other minorities were unjustly repressed in the past. We’ve done a lot to redress those injustices and give everyone equal rights. Canada is today one of the countries where people have the most freedom to express their identity. But why should we promote ever more diversity? If anything and everything is Canadian, does being Canadian mean something? Shouldn’t we emphasize our cultural traditions, what we have built and have in common, what makes us different from other cultures and societies? Having people live among us who reject basic Western values such as freedom, equality, tolerance and openness doesn’t make us strong. People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don’t make our society strong. Trudeau’s extreme multiculturalism and cult of diversity will divide us into little tribes that have less and less in common, apart from their dependence on government in Ottawa. These tribes become political clienteles to be bought with taxpayers $ and special privileges. Cultural balkanisation brings distrust, social conflict, and potentially violence, as we are seeing everywhere. It’s time we reverse this trend before the situation gets worse. More diversity will not be our strength, it will destroy what has made us such a great country."

"This title is unacceptably misleading, @CTVNews. I did not criticize “diversity” but rather “more diversity,” and “ever more diversity” as Trudeau is proposing with his radical multiculturalism. Canada has always been a diverse country and this is part of who we are. I love this Canada. But there is a difference between recognizing diversity and pushing for ever more of it. Something infinitely diverse has no core identity and ceases to exist."

"Doing identity politics means trying to drum up support by appealing to specific groups on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, language, sexuality or other characteristics, instead of speaking to them as Canadians interested in the wellbeing of our country as a whole. Identity politics has become pervasive and is being practiced by all political parties trying to buy votes. Political debate has degenerated into a contest between different ways of pandering to specific groups instead of appealing to our common interests. I have repeatedly stated that I believe identity politics is reductive, divisive and destructive of our social cohesion. I am doing THE OPPOSITE of identity politics by focusing on policy solutions that concern ALL Canadians. And I will continue to do so."

"Our immigration policy should not aim to forcibly change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada, as radical proponents of multiculturalism want. Of course, society is transformed by immigration. But this has to be done organically and gradually. At too high a level, immigration ceases to be a tool to economically benefit Canadians, and it turns instead into a burden. It becomes essentially a big-government policy of social engineering for ideological and electoral purposes. The vast majority of Canadians rightly expect immigrants to learn about our history and culture, master one of our official languages, and adopt widely shared Canadian values. Instead of spending M$ on multiculturalism programs, we should focus on integration."

"I still cannot understand how a party that is supposed to defend free markets supports a small cartel that artificially increases the price of milk, chicken and eggs for millions of Canadian consumers."

"The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions."

"Every public declaration is tested with polls and focus groups. The result is a bunch of platitudes that don’t offend anybody, but also don’t mean anything and don’t motivate anyone."

"If we want conservative principles to win the battle of ideas, we have to defend them openly, with passion and conviction."

"Maybe they want to do that because they’re supporting another party, I think, doing that, they are not doing a favour to their organization. Because it’s not credible. The racist people are not welcome in the party and that won’t change. That’s crazy, I’m not surprised, because our party’s doing very well,"

"The level of climate hysteria keeps increasing. Some want a drastic reduction in consumption. Some call for a green fascist dictatorship. Some say we should stop having babies. Where will this madness stop?!"

"Being asked if I will run again for CPC leadership. Zero chance. The party is morally and intellectually corrupt. Scheer was a weak leader who pushed it to the centre. The next leader will do the same. I started a principled conservative alternative. I’m sticking to it."

"It took the Green Party twenty years and six elections to have 1.6% of the vote. We created a party and did that in one year."

"Psychopathe fasciste"

"Big business must employ Canadians 99% of the time. That's why we will drastically cut temporary foreign worker visas.The People's Party will never merge or form an alliance with the Fake Conservatives. The CPC are only interested in power, and the Cons and the Libs are the same on the major issue of our time, which is mass immigration.[https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/comments/1f46ham/comment/lkk8bl7 A teenager was beheaded in a McDonald's in Calgary by an unhinged criminal who should have never been here. It's a not a right-wing or left-wing thing to screen people properly so that we can be sure only the right people are coming to Canada.housing supply is not the root cause of the crisis. The real cause is demand stemming from mass immigration, which we would end with a moratorium. The federal government is bringing in 100,000 people a month. Nobody can build enough houses for that level of growth. Actually, Statistics Canada says that we must build 700,000 houses a year just to keep up with flood of demand — that's impossible. So, "building more" is not and can never be the solution.[https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/comments/1f46ham/comment/lkk4pkd/ What will take years is building more housing. The only real immediate solution to the rent crisis is a moratorium on immigration. The kinds of incentives you're suggesting would fall under municipal and provincial jurisdiction. I just want all of you to remember what it was like in 2020 when immigration was paused, rents were coming down, salaries were going up, and workers were able to negotiate better perks from their employers. Never forget what Sean Fraser did to you with the support of the Conservatives.Many fake colleges in Brampton and Surrey are connected to the Khalistani movement, and the student program has been used as a Trojan horse to bring many people from Punjab here. Just look how many colleges are in this single plaza. On August 31st, this plaza will be the starting point for a car parade in remembrance of a suicide bomber. What is going on with our country, and what kind of education are people getting at these "colleges"? Again, we don't hear anything about this from Poilievre. Both the Liberals and Conservatives say these people are the future of the country.[https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/comments/1f46ham/comment/lkk1t3x First, we must deport ALL illegals (criminal trespassers). International students that overstay their visa become illegals just like that guy I spoke with in Charlottetown. We must have a robust screening and interview process for everyone who immigrates to Canada. Canada's male-to-female ratio has been severely negatively affected by Trudeau's mass immigration policy. Second, yes, that's what a real, functional, and pro-Canada immigration policy looks like. It must be to fulfill the needs of our economy first. Provinces can also do a much better job of training apprentices rather than relying on mass immigration.They want to import ethnic voting blocs and it is evident. They pander to a few instead of serving us all. They want to create an indentured servitude class that serves the asset-owning class, that is permanently distracted by surface issues, while ignoring the economic and cultural war that has been declared on them.[https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/comments/1f46ham/comment/lkjy8eo"

"How is it possible that Ms. Galipeau know this already? I think I have the answer. Radio-Canada/CBC will produce the debates, so they’re talking to the Commission, and I presume everybody there already knows that I won’t be invited. And she spilled the beans live on TV, probably unintentionally. Under the 2021 rules, I would automatically have been invited, because the PPC received almost 5% of the vote in the last election. But it’s obvious that the Commission changed the rules only to exclude us."

"I am troubled by your decision to allow the leader of the People's Party of Canada in the debates. It is wrong that Mr. Bernier be given a platform to promote an ideology of hate that spreads prejudice and disinformation. Mr. Bernier has courted racists to run for his party. He frequently promotes damaging conspiracy theories on his social media pages. And he has been photographed with far-right hate groups with neo-Nazi ties."

"I've written a letter explaining how I do not believe he should be allowed, he's someone that's opposed science, that puts out very dangerous and divisive rhetoric, and is someone that is putting out messages that are discouraging the public health response to this pandemic. I think it would be the wrong thing to do - very much the wrong thing to do, to give him a platform to promote very divisive and hurtful, frankly, uh, messaging that is counter to science, counter to people's health, and that would be a wrong thing to do."

"A fundamental requirement of a Foreign Service Officer is that he or she report on a given situation as observed or understood. It is only in this way that any government can draw conclusions knowledgeably and make its considered decisions, even if at variance with the reports received."