There are different factions and backgrounds and points of view in the Conservative coalition.

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I thought it was a reflection, not a whole reflection, because films never are. You know workers had English-speaking bosses who didn't condescend to speak their language. It still happens in Canada — and no longer in Quebec. You can argue, as I have, that Quebec had the power to rectify that situation any time it damn well chose.

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He was not a stupid man. He was managed by reasonably clever people who understood his value. But he was a figure in Quebec society of such eminence that you couldn't avoid using him politically. Much as we use (Wayne) Gretzky. No less or no more.

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