"Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place — and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else."
— Quebec

January 1, 1970

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Pierre Trudeau, Speech on the Quebec separatist movement (25 June 1968), exact quote take from footage as seen in "Pierre Elliott Trudeau Memoirs" (27 Jan 2009), Disk 2, 24:05; only the bolded portion has usually been quoted in print, as quoted in Winnipeg Free Press (25 June 1968), and in "Flamboyant former Canadian leader Pierre Trudeau dies" at CNN (28 September 2000)