The legacy he left Québec, I think, is a statement of his life. That, to be yourself, to fight for it, is not an easy matter, and the road is not easy. I think he believed in a search for equality and that equality could be attained -- it would take time, but it could be attained.
However, he got at times very depressed and despondent. The compromises he made over the Manitoba Schools Question, the compromises he made over imperialism, the compromises he made over Canada's participation in the war of the empire, the pressure of the jingoists, Dalton McCarthy and his astonishing racism, the Orange Order...
These people wanted to take Canada in one direction and Bourassa and the separatists in Québec wanted to take him in another direction. And this is why, one day, he was able to say: "Look, in Québec I am branded a traitor, and in Ontario I am branded a Separatist, and all I am is a Canadian, and that's all there is."
And that's all, in the final analysis, that there is. There is nothing for Québec or for British Columbia or for anybody else in this country than Canada. And that's what he told us.
