If I Were Not French I Would

I Claim For Canada This, That In Future Canada Shall Be At Liberty To Act Or Not Act, To Interfere Or Not Interfere, To Do Just As She Pleases, And That She Shall Reserve To Herself The Right To Judge Whether Or Not There Is Cause For Her To Act.

I Have Been Represented As A Protestant Minister; There Was Not One Of The Canvassers Of The Honourable Gentlemen Opposite That Did Not Represent To The People That I Was Not A Minister Of The Crown, But That I Was A Protestant Minister

Confederation Is A Compact, Made Originally By Four Provinces But Adhered To By All The Nine Provinces Who Have Entered It, And I Submit To The Judgment Of This House And To The Best Consideration Of Its Members, That This Compact Should Not Be Lightly Altered.

Whether Splendidly Isolated Or Dangerously Isolated, I Will Not Now Debate; But For My Part, I Think Splendidly Isolated, Because The Isolation Of England Comes From Her Superiority.

Why, So Soon As French Canadians, Who Are In The Minority In This House And In The Country, Were To Organize As A Political Party, They Would Compel The Majority To Organize As A Political Party, And The Result Must Be Disastrous To Themselves.