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  Quebec Sovereignism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Quebec Sovereignism is a political orientation calling for the attainment of sovereignty for Quebec, a province of the Canadian federation.
Quebec sovereignists are generally not in opposition to federalism as a concept, but are opposed to the present federal system of Canada and do not believe it can be reformed in a way that could answer what they see as the legitimate wish of Quebecers to govern themselves freely.
Sovereignty-Association was proposed to the population of Quebec in the 1980 Quebec referendum.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/quebec_sovereignism   (2451 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Royal Assent
The Sovereign, wearing the Imperial State Crown, would be seated on the Throne in the Lords Chamber, surrounded by heralds and members of the Royal Court (nowadays, the scene is repeated only at the annual State Opening of Parliament).
The Lords Commissioners, as the Sovereign's representatives are known, wear scarlet Parliamentary Robes and sit on a bench between the Throne and the Woolsack, with the Speaker and the Commons attending at the Bar of the Lords.
Quebec The Quebec sovereignty movement is a movement calling for the attainment of sovereignty for Quebec, a province of the country of Canada.
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 1995 Quebec referendum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum in the Canadian province of Quebec (see 1980 Quebec referendum) that put to public vote the role of Quebec within Canada and whether Quebec should pursue a path toward independent statehood ("sovereignty").
The Quebec court found that the scrutineers had committed no criminals acts and the rejected ballots were not rejected in a fraudulent or irregular manner by the scrutinners.
Under the Referendum Act of Quebec, all spending had to be authorized and accounted for under the Yes or No umbrella committees after the decree was issued on October 1.
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 Secessionist movements of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Quebec Sovereignism seeks independence from Canada for the province of Quebec.
The Saguenay region is on both shores of the Saguenay river in Quebec.
While the people of the region tend to be more strongly in favour of Quebec Sovereignism than those in other parts of the province, there is no such thing as a Saguenean nationalism.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Secessionist_movements_of_Canada   (1383 words)

  
 Quebec Sovereignism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Quebec sovereignists are generally not in opposition to federalism as aconcept, but are opposed to the present federal system of Canada and do not believe it can be reformed in a way that could answerwhat they see as the legitimate wish of Quebecers to govern themselves freely.
In the 1976 Quebec election, the PQ elected 71candidates to the general astonishment of all of Quebec and Canada.
However, in the 1995 Quebec referendum, which was narrowly rejected, the notionof some form of economic association with the rest of Canada was still envisaged (continuing use of the Canadian dollar, forexample).
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 math lessons - Quebec sovereignty movement
The Quebec sovereignty movement is a movement calling for the attainment of sovereignty for Quebec, a province of the Canadian federation.
Quebec sovereigntists are generally not in opposition to federalism as a concept, but are opposed to the present federal system of Canada and do not believe it can be reformed in a way that could answer what they see as the legitimate wish of Quebecers to govern themselves freely.
In the 1976 Quebec election, the PQ elected 71 candidates to the general astonishment of all of Quebec and the rest of Canada.
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 Quebec Sovereignty Movement articles and news from Start Learning Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Quebec sovereignty movement is a political movement for the attainment of sovereignty for Quebec, a province of the Canadian confederationCanadian federation.
In the Quebec general election, 19761976 election, the PQ won 71 seats -- a majority in the National Assembly -- to the general astonishment of all of Quebec and the rest of Canada.
The PQ won re-election in the Quebec general election, 19981998 election, which was almost a "clone" of the previous Quebec general election, 19941994 election in terms of number of seats won by each side.
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 Royal Assent -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Royal Assent is granted by the (A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right) Sovereign (currently (Daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)) Elizabeth II).
A new device for granting Assent was created during the reign of (Son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547)) Henry VIII.
The Lords Commissioners, as the Sovereign's representatives are known, wear scarlet Parliamentary Robes and sit on a bench between the Throne and the (Click link for more info and facts about Woolsack) Woolsack, with the Speaker and the Commons attending at the Bar of the Lords.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ro/Royal_Assent.htm   (2806 words)

  
 Mouvement Souveraineté-Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Formerly a member of the Liberal Party of Quebec, René Lévesque quit the party with a few hundred others after his proposal of a sovereign Quebec associated to the rest of Canada was rejected during a party convention.
The MSA quickly began to move for a merger of all the independence movements in Quebec, which at the time were the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN) and the Ralliement national (RN).
Three elections later, the PQ won the 1976 Quebec election, with historic consequences.
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 Quebec Sovereignism - InformationBlast
The central arguments are that a citizenship for Quebec can adequately and permanantly resolve the difficult issue of the majority's language (Quebec French), allow Quebecers to establish their nationality, preserve their collective memory and defend their cultural identity.
However, in the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty, which was narrowly rejected, the notion of some form of economic association with the rest of Canada was still envisaged (continuing use of the Canadian dollar, for example).
The Sovereignty-Association project of the Parti Québécois garnered 40,44% of votes from the Quebec electorate in the 1980 Quebec referendum and 49,42% in 1995 referendum.
www.informationblast.com /Quebec_separatist.html   (1965 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Parti Québécois Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty association was rejected by 60 per cent of voters.
With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.
The current Bloc leader, Gilles Duceppe, is also the son of Jean Duceppe, an famous Quebec actor that helped found the PQ and the New Democratic Party branch in Quebec (now separated from the federal NDP and merged in the Union des Forces Progressistes).
www.ipedia.com /parti_quebecois.html   (771 words)

  
 babble: Quebec separation continued
I would like the Quebec babblers who consider themselves progressive to recognise that Saskatchewan has a unique place in Canada, that Yukon's history is distinct, that Nova Scotia has a cultural and linguistic heritage that differentiates it...
If it ever came to Quebec acheiving seperation, which I hope would never happen, then Quebec should have to repay to the federal government their portion of the federal debt before seperation.
Quebecers didn't vote for "independence", precisely, and a deeper analysis of the numbers show that even a majority of Yes voters are actually aiming for a different relationship within Canada, ie unilaterally renegotiating the Constitution.
www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=31&t=000409   (8254 words)

  
 Sovereignty-association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vermont Sovereignty Project Vermonters seeking a better future through greater individual liberty and sovereignty.
Quebec Sovereignty: A Legitimate Goal A paper prepared by Intellectuals for Sovereignty (IPSO).
Anti-Hawaiian Sovereignty Asserts that the Hawaiian sovereignty movement has racist goals.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Sovereignty-association.html   (271 words)

  
 FEDERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On Monday, he assured an English-speaking, federalist audience in Toronto that his Quebec sovereignism is "not motivated for one fraction of a second by any resentment about our friends in the rest of Canada."
Lester ignores any evidence in the defence of the accused, and if his research has not turned up any statements proving their guilty intent, then he simply condemns them on the additional charge of hypocrisy.
Rather, it's merely "the most recent manifestation" of the mentality of "a large majority of English Quebecers," who have always refused to live "in a democratic state where the French would be in a majority." Of course, that must be why they live in Quebec.
www.vigile.net /dossier-medias/1-11/01-11-28-macpherson.html   (701 words)

  
 Steve Rifkin on Les bons débarras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lockerbie suggests that despite the lack of any direct reference to nationalist politics in Les bons débarras, the film presents evidence of a "collective identity" which penetrates deeper than consciously revealed symbolism, and which manifests itself in individual identities and anxieties (1988: 122).
The goals of the Québec sovereignism are traditionally idealized, in part, as a shift from the strength historically drawn from the domestic, familial community toward strength to be gained in achieving social and economic self-sufficiency within Canada.
Les bons débarras, however, presents a community whose attempts to attain social integrity and economic self-sufficiency have utterly failed, and whose strength must be found only in retreat to the domestic sphere.
www.film.queensu.ca /Critical/Rifkin.html   (1914 words)

  
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