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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.39,0:00:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our next speaker, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the leader of the student movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.62,0:00:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome, welcome, thank you, this is a bit amazing. :)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.07,0:00:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, and for 54 days, today,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.91,0:00:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have been on strike.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.67,0:00:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For 54 days, I have been fighting.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.54,0:00:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,54 days of fight, 54 days of police batons.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.66,0:00:49.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of tear gas, of pepper spray, me, my friends, my comrades
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.94,0:00:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the students of Quebec.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.64,0:00:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,54 days of striking against the Liberals,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.47,0:01:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against the bosses, against the cops, against contemptuous columnists
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.77,0:01:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,54 days, and we have already won.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.19,0:01:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Already, we have won over cynicism
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.23,0:01:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Already, we have won over powerlessness
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.09,0:01:15.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Against those who said just a few weeks ago
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.97,0:01:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the people of Quebec were dead
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.24,0:01:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that its youth were not much better.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.42,0:01:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why, I believe, I'll use this platform that has been offered to me today
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.05,0:01:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to warmly thank the Prime Minister of Quebec
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.99,0:01:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr Jean Jean Charest. :)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.29,0:01:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you Mr Charest, you have given us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.74,0:01:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an unshakable confidence in ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.73,0:01:53.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you Mr Charest to have shown us what we could do against you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.05,0:01:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But by now, by now, you are on probation
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.19,0:01:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have declared war on an entire generation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.71,0:02:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have marked the ground of the history with a permanent mark.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.81,0:02:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From now on, Quebec's history will never be read without stopping here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.82,0:02:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have shown us the violence of your world, to let us -- perhaps -- imagine ours a little bit better.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.07,0:02:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we aspire to something more than your dying world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.96,0:02:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We aspire to more than your dollar-sign education, than your laboratory schools,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.07,0:02:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to more than your "Me Inc." society.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.95,0:02:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By now, we trust ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.02,0:02:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By now, we trust the power of history
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.87,0:02:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We trust our classmates
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.74,0:02:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by now trust the people of Quebec.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.32,0:02:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it won't stop here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.85,0:02:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our anger, the students' anger, already resonates to the four corners of the province
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.44,0:02:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the ears of our children, our nieces, of our cousins resonate with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.46,0:03:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Striking is a school. For us, this spring, it will have been the best schooling.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.42,0:03:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... and it will have been free no less :)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.39,0:03:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Striking-school this spring will have been for us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.81,0:03:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the best of training, a free training.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.28,0:03:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We learned this spring, we learned for real.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.66,0:03:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We learned what injustice is, what violence is, what the violence of a system is.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.60,0:03:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We learned what cayenne pepper tastes like, we learned what tear gas smells like.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.45,0:03:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And above all, we learned resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.95,0:03:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of thousands of us leaned to fight harder than we ever had in our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.43,0:03:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fight harder than anyone ever did in Quebec's history.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.87,0:03:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our strike, it is not merely the matter of a generation,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.46,0:03:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not merely the matter of a spring.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.19,0:03:52.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the matter of a people, it is the matter of this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.92,0:03:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our strike is not an isolated event. Our strike is just a step,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.34,0:03:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is just a moment along a much longer route.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.59,0:04:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our strike is already victorious. It is already victorious
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.92,0:04:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it made it possible to see this road, that of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.16,0:04:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the true meaning of our strike.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.63,0:04:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,250'000 people don't take to the streets just to avoid paying $1625 extra.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.43,0:04:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the meaning of our strike. In perseverance, and in a continued disobedience.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.54,0:04:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This spring, we planted the seeds of a revolt
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.22,0:04:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, perhaps, might not grow for many years still.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.32,0:04:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet already, we can say that the people of Quebec are not asleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.84,0:04:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nor are its youth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.07,0:04:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe they have the hardest clubs.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.97,0:04:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe they wear the thickest armors.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.36,0:05:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe they own the largest newspapers.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.76,0:05:04.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe they have the thickest wallets.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.47,0:05:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We, however, we have the toughest spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.61,0:05:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have the courage of the oppressed,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.80,0:05:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have the force of the multitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.16,0:05:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But above all, above all,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.42,0:05:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are, simply stated, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.40,0:05:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are right to stand. We are right to shout. We are right to protest.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.04,0:05:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are right to strike. We are right to block entry to our cegeps.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.01,0:05:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To block entry to our universities.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.83,0:05:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are right not to be intimidated by the injunctions of a small-minded jerk
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.49,0:05:47.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who lost his debate in the House, and who has parents rich enough to buy him a lawyer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.51,0:05:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is right to fight against this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.23,0:05:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Against a world...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.91,0:06:03.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right to fight against a world that tries to cut off our wings,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.95,0:06:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who wants to discipline us through debt and work
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.46,0:06:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet this fight is not only the student's fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.48,0:06:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It must not be only the student's fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.38,0:06:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the individuals
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.15,0:06:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who want to increase tuition fees, who perhaps will increase tuition fees.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.68,0:06:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the individuals who invented the health tax, the people who invented the 'Plan Nord'.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.96,0:06:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people who have laid off the workers at Aveos
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.77,0:06:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people trying to lay off workers at Rio Tinto, Alcan, Alma
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.74,0:06:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people trying to stop the Couche Tard workers from unionizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.72,0:06:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All these individuals are the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.72,0:06:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the same people, with the same interests, in the same groups, in the same political parties,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.58,0:06:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the same economic institutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.28,0:06:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These individuals are a single elite, a gluttonous elite, a crass elite
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.96,0:06:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a corrupted elite.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.56,0:07:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An elite who sees nothing in education but a human capital investment.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.13,0:07:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who sees nothing in a tree but a sheet of paper
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.02,0:07:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who sees nothing in a child but a future employee.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.80,0:07:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people have a plan...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.93,0:07:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people have convergent interests, converging political projects.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.20,0:07:20.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is against them that we have to fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.15,0:07:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only against the Liberal Government.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.13,0:07:28.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today I can, I believe, give a voice to the wish,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.85,0:07:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dearest wish of the students currently on strike in Quebec
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.21,0:07:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become a springboard. Let our strike be a springboard for the next protest
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.78,0:07:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a much broader protest
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.09,0:07:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much deeper and much more -- yes -- radical
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.45,0:07:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against the political direction of Quebec in recent years [bravo!]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.55,0:08:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there is a Quebec tradition to protect
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.80,0:08:09.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is not poutine or xenophobia. :)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.71,0:08:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there is any Quebec tradition to protect,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.58,0:08:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is the one Quebec's students are carrying today. A tradition of fight,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.40,0:08:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of union fights, of student fights, of the people's fights.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.63,0:08:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to speak of this fight, I could not finish my statement today...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.51,0:08:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without offering you the words of Gaston Miron:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.48,0:08:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"forward, forward, we are moving, our heads like a delta"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.76,0:08:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good-bye, farewell
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.79,0:08:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on our return, we will have the past on our back
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.87,0:08:44.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after all this time throwing our hate at all forms of peonage
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.23,0:08:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will have become terrible beasts of hope. "
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.50,0:08:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.