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You have given me a strong and clear mandate — to make Quebec a country.
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The speaker says they have received clear, powerful support for making Quebec an independent country. “Mandate” presents this goal as something the speaker believes they have been authorized to pursue, not merely a personal preference. The sentence therefore links public backing with a political project: changing Quebec’s status into that of a country.
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