>> 50 years from now, will people still be speaking 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 that would have voted in separate nation status? >> in english, you guys say timing is everything. >> right. >> and timing was never better in the period, 1990, '91,' 92. because, in '95 this country came inches one being broken up. >> do you think it will ever happen? in the history of the world? >> i don't know, but i know one thing, anybody who says separatism is dead in this country and this province is a fool. >> no matter how you feel about quebec as either separate from or as an essential part of