It is not blackmail. There will be only one million francophones outside Quebec who will no longer have the support of francophone members from Quebec, like me and others who have spent their careers defending francophones outside Quebec here in the House of Commons. I have been doing that for 32 years. It produced results. But they want to abandon them because they want ambassadors from Quebec driving around abroad in their limos.
In the House of Commons on October 17th, 1995. See this statement in context.