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“When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.”

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Jacques Parizeau

A Canadian economist and Quebec political figure. Jacques Parizeau served as the Minister of Finance for Quebec in the 1970s and 1980s, and led the Quebec sovereignty movement in the 1995 referendum. more

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