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He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

- Wilfrid Laurier
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If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

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He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.