Underlooked Stephen Harper quotes P5: Canadian indepedence

Part 5 of underlooked Stephen Harper quotes. Part one, two, three and four here.
 
Quebec and Americanism/Corporatism

And ironically, says Mr. Harper, that same aspect of Quebec’s social distinctiveness is what makes it unsuitable for independence. ‘The only real independence is economic independence’ he says. ‘When you don’t have that, you don’t have anything.’
19/02/1996

Harper, again, with the truth! This is a really wonderful quote, because it can be perfectly applied to the situation between Canada and America.

America is the largest foreign owner of anything Canadian, naturally, with NAFTA that opened up our markets (Read more…)