French Canadians are a moral and religious people,
listening to their hierarchy and their priesthood, and
as a Protestant I have no hesitation in saying that the
best and finest moral police in the world was to be found
in the priesthood of French Canada. (Speech of Sir
John A. Macdonald, at St. Georges Club, London, on
January 4, 1886.)
The French people in Canada are in the position of
a people speaking an alien language, but do not con-
sider themselves an alien people, and are at this mo-
ment as proud of British law and freedom as any
portion of the Canadian people; and as Lord Dufferin
remarked the other day in London, there is no class or
population more thoroughly trained in Parliamentary
practice and life, and to all the rights and feelings of an
independent and proud people. (Speech of Hon. Alex.
Mackenzie, Dundee, Scotland.)
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