stupidity, and that was it. and you know what? it will not stand. >> the anglo-canadians treated quebecois like second-class crap for much of history, so i get it. i'd be pissed, too. i would want my own thing, and when i got it, i would want to make sure there is no back-sliding to the good old days. >> when the first sovereignist party to be elected in 1976, it didn't come out of a vacuum. it came out from a couple of decades of awakening and struggle. >> 50 years from now, will people still be speaking predominantly french in montreal? >> yes. >> no doubt about it. >> no doubt about it. >> french first is something most would agree with. how far and how rigorously you want to go with that, well -- do you think there was ever any possibility or real majority or plurality of quebecois who have have voted in separate nation status? >> in english, you guys say timing is everything. >> right. >> and timing was never better than in the period 1990, 1991, '92, because in '95, this country came inches from being broken up. >> close. >> yeah. >> do you think it will ever