After 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty, in which the Quebec sovereigntist option was narrowly defeated, Bourdon was quoted as saying, "I see it as perfectly normal that (for English-speaking Quebecers) it's better to be majority in Canada than minority in Quebec. If I were an anglophone, I'd be a federalist."Sarah Scott, "Francophone reprisal for No vote never materialized," Montreal Gazette, 4 November 1995, A1.
