Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences.

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.