Benjamin Leszcz (November 1, 2006) "They like us! They really like us!", Toronto Life, Toronto Life Publishing Company, Volume 40, Issue 11.
“Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.”
Quoted in House Beautiful, vol.133, p. 216 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LKlUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Let+Toronto+become+Milan.+Montreal+will+always+be+Rome.%22&dq=%22Let+Toronto+become+Milan.+Montreal+will+always+be+Rome.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=J0djT-L9H5Da0QXvu-2iCA&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAA
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former mayor of Montreal, Quebec (1954-1957,1960-1986) 1916–1999Related quotes
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Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada (1968)
“Let Rome be glorious on the earth,
The centre of Italian worth.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XII, p. 472
A Psalm of Montreal http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/011204.htm, st. 1 (1884)
“Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.”
Canto III, line 263
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!”
Vive Montreal; Vive le Québec! Vive le Québec libre!
From a balcony at Montreal City Hall, with particular emphasis on the word 'libre'. The phrase, a slogan used by Quebecers who favoured Quebec sovereignty, and de Gaulle's use of it, was seen by them as lending his tacit support to the movement. The speech sparked a diplomatic incident with Canada's government, and was condemned by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, saying that "Canadians do not need to be liberated."
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2
Quoted in Kevin Shea, "One on One with Bobby Clarke," http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/spot_oneononep198701.htm Legends of Hockey.net (2003-05-02)
“I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto”
Can't Believe It
Song lyrics, Thr33 Ringz (2008)