Paul Martin’s government has lost the moral authority to govern.

Today is the moment of truth for the Liberals, who do not have moral authority to govern. Will the prime minister respect the will of the elected representatives of the people and recognize he no...

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

When they don’t have the moral authority to govern, we have to express what Quebeckers think, and I think Quebeckers don’t want the Liberals any more, … So we’re expressing the voices of all those...

It is in their interest to negotiate with a sovereign Quebec for the best interests of both peoples,

It doesn’t mean that you’re going to war because you have an army,

We will be responsible. When something that is proposed that is good for Quebec, we will support that.

In other words, it’s money talks,

Thank you, everyone. That touches me right in the heart.

I’ll go issue by issue, just like we did with the Liberals.

I think he made the right decision. The situation has changed. He knows this himself. We have to take this into account and he did.

I’m very confident next time, next referendum, we’ll win that referendum.

We don’t know concretely what he is proposing.

It could help the country, it could help the farmers, it could help the taxi drivers and so on. We have to do something. This is a crisis. It touches a lot of people, especially...

I think it’s very clear, and the reaction today, on TV, on radio, all of them go in the same sense, … people say they just don’t believe Paul Martin wasn’t involved. If he didn’t...

If the speech stays like this, we’re prepared to give the government a chance and vote for (the speech).

This huge announcement will leave out truckers, taxi drivers and the vast majority of consumers,

They no longer have the moral authority to govern,

This is the worst thing that can happen in a democracy, and I’m saying that against the Liberal Party,

This is a transition budget that was not worth triggering an election over.

There’ll be an army, of course,

I don’t think we have to wait for the second report. It’s up to the Canadian people to judge this party, the Liberal party.

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

There is a firm confirmation that it (the imbalance) exists. This is a budget of transition. The real budget will be next year. We’ll see next year if they deliver.

I went around Quebec saying the same thing I just said to you, and I see no opposition at all,

Paul Martin couldn’t not have noticed the articles in The Globe and Mail. That began in 1999, and it wasn’t until February of 2004 that he reacted.

It has that air, … It would be surprising if it was Jean Chretien that leaked that part of the report. Who has an interest in doing that?

If you develop a foreign policy the way we see it, then we’ll have an army that will intervene mainly to secure democracy in some countries, participating in international forces, going when there’s a natural...

an important step forward.

In Quebec, there is no place for corruption, … You cannot trust the Liberals, but you can trust the Bloc Qu ”©b ”©cois.

And sometimes you have to go to war.

We were ready [for an election] last spring, … so a few days more, a few days less, we don’t mind.

In Quebec, there is no place for corruption. You cannot trust the Liberals, but you can trust the Bloc Qu ”©b ”©cois.

He presided over a cabinet in which the No. 2 man was Paul Martin,