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"It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified."
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"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."

"Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity."

"The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California."

"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive."

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"

"Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income."

"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
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"Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress."

"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."

"Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people."

"In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment."

"To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions."

"We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security."
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