OK Everybody Take a Valium! is undoubtedly one the most famous editorial cartoons of the past four decades of Quebec political life. Aislin, editorial cartoonist for The Gazette, portrayed René Lévesque uttering these words the day after the Parti québécois victory in 1976. He parodied the expression when Robert Bourassa returned as head of the Liberal Party in 1983. The possibility of Quebec independence reached its peak with the 1995 referendum, as shown in Serge Chapleau's cartoon referring to the "love in" held in Montreal on October 27, 1995.
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