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	The Canadian Jewish Community and the Politics of Quebec Independence - Jack Silverstone
		Ominously, the Quebec government intervened in support of the position of the government of Ontario in the recent court challenge to Ontario's refusal to extend funding to private confessional schools.
		Quebec's "Quiet Revolution" of the 1960s was not confined to economic, linguistic, and cultural spheres.
		The use of violence to achieve political goals is alien to the Canadian ethos and is very unlikely to emerge as a factor in the Quebec debate.
	www.jcpa.org /cjc/jl-361-silverstone.htm (4306 words)

	Key concepts to understand Quebec politics
		Lower Canada (Quebec) was conquered militarily in 1760 and later in 1840 was annexed to the neighbouring province of Upper Canada following the severe repression of the Patriote movement.
		Quebec sovereignists claim that sovereignty is what gives a people the ability to elaborate and enforce its own economic, social and cultural policies.
		Beyond the political questions, Quebec's desire for independence is motivated by its unconquerable determination to ensure the perpetuation of its language and culture.
	english.republiquelibre.org /key-concepts.html (601 words)

	Politics of Quebec at AllExperts
		The principal judicial courts of Quebec are the Court of Quebec, the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal.
		Quebec is a participating government in the international organization the Francophonie, which can be seen as a sort of Commonwealth of Nations for French-speaking countries.
		In the 1980 Quebec referendum, Premier LÃ©vesque asked the Quebec people for "a mandate to negotiate" his proposal for "sovereignty-association" with the rest of Canada, meaning political sovereignty for Quebec in an economic association with the rest of Canada, Sixty per cent of the Quebec electorate voted against it.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/po/politics_of_quebec.htm (3046 words)

	Politics of Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The principal judicial courts of Quebec are the Court of Quebec, the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal.
		Quebec is a participating government in the international organization the Francophonie, which can be seen as a sort of Commonwealth of Nations for French-speaking countries.
		In the 1980 Quebec referendum, Premier Lévesque asked the Quebec people for "a mandate to negotiate" his proposal for "sovereignty-association" with the rest of Canada, meaning political sovereignty for Quebec in an economic association with the rest of Canada, Sixty per cent of the Quebec electorate voted against it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Quebec (3051 words)

	Quebec - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Quebec is located in eastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the U.S. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York States) to the south, and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
		Political deadlocks led to talks of a confederation, which in turn led to the creation of the Dominion of Canada with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1867.
		The provincial bird of Quebec is the snowy owl.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /qu/Quebec.html (1913 words)

	Politics of Quebec: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is an article about the politics (politics: The study of government of states and other political units) of Quebec (Quebec: The largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British).
		Many of Quebec (Quebec: The largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British) 's political institutions are among the oldest in North America.
		Quebec entered an accelerated decade of changes known as the Quiet Revolution (Quiet Revolution: the quiet revolution (révolution tranquille) was a period of rapid change in the...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/politics_of_quebec (4051 words)

	Quebec - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Quebec is located in eastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York) to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
		Quebec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain who established the Habitation de Quebec in 1608 as a permanent fur trading outpost, where he quickly forged a trading and military alliance with Algonkian and Huron nations against the Iroquois and the British.
		The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec (3412 words)

	Quebec nationalism - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Quebec nationalism is the subject of many international studies together with the contemporary nationalism of Scotland, Catalonia and other non-sovereign regions of the world.
		Interesting debates on the nature of Quebec's nationalism are currently going on and various intellectuals from Quebec or other parts of Canada have published works on the subject, notably Will Kymlicka, professor of philosophy at Carleton University and Charles Blattberg and Michel Seymour, both professors at the Université de Montréal.
		People who believe that Quebec nationalism is still ethnic, have often expressed their opinion that the worldview of Quebec's nationalists is insular and parochial and concerned with preserving a "pure laine" population of white francophones within the province.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Quebec_nationalism (1184 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Geography Quebec is bounded on the N by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, on the E by the Labrador area of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the S by New Brunswick and the United States,...
		Quebec and Asia: lessons of Japan-Quebec relations in the post-referendum period.
		The domestic politics of Quebec's quest for external distinctiveness.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Quebec (979 words)

	Politics of Quebec - Definition, explanation
		Originally, the Quebec legislature was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly.
		The government of Quebec consists of all the ministries and governmental branches that do not have the status of independent institutions such as municipalities and regional county municipalities.
		The political parties that the sovereignists created are the Bloc Québécois and the Parti Québécois, which its members define as a party of social democrat tendency.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/po/politics_of_quebec.php (2503 words)

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	Centrerion Canadian Politics
		This article and related articles are archived in the topical categories Canadian politics, Provincial politics, Quebec politics, Canadian national security,separatism.
		Canadian politics: analysis and commentary by moderates and centrists.
		Canadian politics with a focus on foreign affairs, terrorism, the environment, and Quebec.
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	Featured: Culture, Life and Politics in Québec
		Quebec is one tried and tested barrier between Canadians emerging into Americanization [or Americanisation].
		Living in Quebec and having an opinion on it is a different situation than living in Ontario or Alberta and criticizing it.
		Quebec is viewed by some as all trouble and no gain, which makes sense as so much goes into the province and so little comes out other than separatism ideas and criticizing.
	www.canadiancontent.net /commtr/article_678.html (849 words)

	Pot politics in Quebec
		Canada's first pro-pot political party, Quebec's Bloc Pot, celebrated their fifth anniversary battling biased press, rigged all-candidates meetings, crooked cops, and undemocratic voting requirements during Quebec's recent provincial election, held April 14, 2003.
		The PQ's main platform is to hold a referendum to separate Quebec from Canada.
		The party originally hoped to run undauntable candidates like Kasapoglu in every one of Quebec's 125 electoral districts — mirroring a feat accomplished by the BC Marijuana Party in the 2001 BC election (CC#33, Marijuana Party makes BC history).
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/2994.html (925 words)

	Quebec's politics makes N.L. more reliable for power: Williams
		Williams accused Quebec on Wednesday of jeopardizing the Lower Churchill project in Labrador by making plans to develop five hydroelectric projects on the lower north shore, just south of the border with his province.
		Quebec's minister of natural resources, Pierre Corbeil, said Williams comments were inappropriate, adding that Quebec has made it clear for some time that it wants to develop its own hydroelectric potential.
		Corbeil said Quebec was part of a proposal to develop the Lower Churchill with Newfoundland, but that plan was rejected because Williams wanted to develop it alone.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2006/09/28/williams-quebec.html (1186 words)

	Conservative politics and the Quebec factor - Interim, Feb 2005
		Political analysts and even the leaders of the party have perhaps not yet pondered the importance of the Quebec factor at this convention.
		In November, he organized a meeting in Quebec City of the Quebec wing of the party and created a "francophone forum" within the party, to promote so-called Quebec values, by which he means socially liberal values, at the convention.
		With 90 per cent of Quebec's delegates against him, his leadership, the unity of the Conservative party and the conservative soul of the party might be in jeopardy.
	www.theinterim.com /2005/feb/gagnon.html (755 words)

	Contemporary Review: Quebec: social union or separation? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Quebec is the largest of Canada's 10 provinces, and its 7.1m people (1996) make it the second most populous.
		Quebec is about the size of Alaska, and four times the size of France.
		Quebec is the centre of French Canadian culture, containing 91 per cent of the country's French-speakers (francophones).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1598_274/ai_54405258 (370 words)

	Politics Canada Forum - Québec Separatism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Quebec's borders are not likely to be the borders that they will have after separation.
		For Canada to start splitting Quebec up, it would have to violate its own constitution and, to the face of the world, justify why they are bringing in the army to Quebec (again) to threaten an unarmed civilan population.
		Quebec can declare independence because 1) it is a state 2) there happens to be a non-sovereign people in it who is made very much aware of its difference (and its fragility) on a continent where they are but in insignificant minority.
	www.canadawebpages.com /pc-forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=62& (3120 words)

	Desicritics.org: Canadian Politics: The Dark Side Of Quebec Nationalism
		I'm not saying that Quebec nationalist are capable of carrying out those types of activities, but there have been indications that some nationalists who see ethnic minorities as a threat have some extreme views.
		In the letter he says that Quebec must take measures to protect its national identity and the "values that are invaluable" (Dumont's word in quotes not mine, who else but a politician would say values that are invaluable with a straight face?).
		Quebec nationalism as envisioned by its earliest founders in the 1950s and 60s was to make French Canadians equal partners in Canada.
	desicritics.org /2007/01/17/000722.php (1767 words)

	Quebec, province, Canada: History and Politics — Infoplease.com
		Quebec was recognized by Parliament as a “distinct society”; because of its language and culture and was granted a veto over constitutional amendments.
		A federal law designed to make it harder for Quebec to secede was passed in July, 2000; it required that a clear majority support a clearly worded proposition and that borders, the seceding province's responsibility for a share of the national debt, and other issues be resolved by negotiations.
		The domestic politics of Quebec's quest for external distinctiveness.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0860604.html (1115 words)

	Canada 94 - Quebec Politics
		In Quebec, it is Labatt Bleue Biere, which is the same beer with a similar label, but the writing is in French and the maple leaf has been replaced with the fleur-de-lys.
		Unemployment in Quebec is much higher than in the rest of Canada, leaving many to blame Canada for the province's economic woes and advocate secession.
		Quebec accounts for about a quarter of the total economy of the country, so if they secede, this will likely have serious repercussions throughout the rest of Canada.
	www.rantsinyourpants.com /mike/stories/canada94/blame_canada.htm (1033 words)

	Fuzzy left » Politics and cultural figures in Quebec: a healthy mix?
		It’s also quite healthy for any society that its cultural figures take part in political debates, and we shouldn’t be surprised to find them more often on the side of change, idealism, a bit more to the left than to the right, greener and more open.
		My own political position, for sure, makes me more sensitive to this phenomenon, but I think the problem would be just as bad if it was the other way around.
		When a people is split in half over its future, there is a richness of subject matter there, for deeper recognition of who we are, for a recognition of the value and meaning of our collective inner conflicts, there is material for classic tragedy with the associated beauties of human virtue and uncertainty.
	yvanstpierre.com /enblog/2006/12/19/politics-and-cultural-figures-in-quebec-a-healthy-mix (657 words)

	Culture, Life and Politics in Quebec...
		Quebec is one tried and tested barrier between Canadians emerging into Americanization [or Americanisation].
		Quebec should not be viewed any different in that respect.
		Quebec is viewed by some as all trouble and no gain, which makes sense as so much goes into the province and so little comes out other than separatism ideas and criticizing.
	forums.canadiancontent.net /news/33646-culture-life-politics-quebec.html (863 words)

	Team Quebec
		QUEBEC (CP) - A well-known Quebec lawyer is urging Premier Jean Charest to get involved in helping to create a Team Quebec that would play in the 2008 world hockey championships.
		Quebec wanted the amendments because they were mad because they didn't like the Canada Act, our constitution, but the feds pushed it through over their objections.
		Quebec has a LARGE French base, they use it to influence federal policy when the Quebecer's are actually a small potion of the country.
	politics.abovetopsecret.com /thread232282/pg1 (2919 words)

	I Am Skooter : Politics
		Quebec has elected it’s first minority government in 130 years, and Jean Charest is the first premier of Quebec who has failed to win back to back majorities in over 20 years.
		Religion and politics have been linked for even longer, with the notion of a separation of church and state being a relatively recent invention (and not an exclusively American one either.) It’s a powerful ideal, and most modern democracies subscribe to it on some level.
		This is not limited simply to political news — open the business section of any newspaper, and check the content against press releases distributed directly by the company through Canada Newswire or PR Newswire.
	personal.penguinstorm.com /politics (8881 words)

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