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Blockquotes Block Quotes are used for to visually highlight direct quotations with an attribution from people or documents, such as third-party testimonials, municipal code excerpts, or data from Statistics Canada.

Block Quote Example:

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Block Quotes Additional Criteria:

  • Should not include hyperlinks, additional colours, bolding, italics, bullet points or headings.

  • Must not be used as a section heading.

  • Should not duplicate information found elsewhere on the page – not to be used as a pull quote (for example, a quote in from a newspaper article).

  • The quotations should be at the top and the source should have a dash in front.

  • The attribution should be at the bottom, begin with a dash and use small text format.