"Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone."

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When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.

— Jacques Parizeau