“Of course a bilingual state is more expensive than a unilingual one — but it is a richer state.”

—  Pierre Trudeau

Remark in 1968, quoted in Improving Canada's Democracy (2006) by Terry Julian, p. 14

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15th Prime Minister of Canada 1919–2000

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