“It is true, it is true that we were beaten, but in the end, by what? By money and ethnic votes, essentially.”

—  Jacques Parizeau

C'est vrai, c'est vrai qu'on a été battus, au fond, par quoi? Par l'argent pis des votes ethniques, essentiellement.
1995 referendum concession speech.

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