Leadership Quote by Pauline Marois

Nationalist desire stripped down to a blunt demand, Pauline Marois's line works because it refuses the comfort of nuance. "We want a country" is less an argument than a pressure tactic: it treats sovereignty not as a policy option to be weighed, but as a collective appetite already settled. The simplicity is strategic. It turns a complex constitutional question into something as plain as ownership, as if Quebec were merely claiming what was always supposed to be in its hands.

The second clause does the heavier lifting. "And we will get it" shifts from aspiration to inevitability, borrowing the cadence of a campaign chant and the posture of a movement that wants to feel history on its side. It's not just persuasion; it's morale management. When a political project has known setbacks, declaring victory in advance is a way to keep believers inside the story, to pre-empt doubts by framing them as temporary noise.

The repetition - "our country" - is the emotional lock. It compresses identity, grievance, and belonging into a possessive pronoun, quietly drawing a line between those who are included in the "we" and those who are not. That's the subtext: sovereignty as protection, recognition, and control, wrapped in the language of home. Coming from a Quebec premier and Parti Quebecois leader, the context is a long-running referendum era aftershock, where every sentence is also a signal to allies, rivals, and Ottawa: this isn't a mood; it's a mandate.