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Connexions Quotations
Matthew Coon Come
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There will be no annexation of ourselves or our territory to an independent Quebec without our consent. There is an obvious and undeniable logic here: If Quebec has the right to leave Canada, then certainly the Cree people have the right to keep our territory in Canada, if that is our choice. We cannot simply be traded from country to country, as though we are livestock in a field...
Consider this: Cree Territory is contiguous with the Northwest Territories, Ontario, and Labrador. It was added to Quebec only very late, only in 1912, and Quebec only began to administer the territory in 1963. In fact, in 1993 the Government of Quebec held a celebration called Thirty Years in the North.
- Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec
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