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	Quebec sovereignty movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		However, in the 1995 Quebec referendum, 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).
		Quebec federalist nationalists think that the Quebec people should be recognized as a de facto nation by the federal government of Canada and initiate the constitutional reforms that presuppose such a recognition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_separatism (3699 words)

	Quebec sovereignty movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Quebec sovereignty movement is a political movement for the attainment of sovereignty for Quebec, a province of the Canadian federation.
		Sovereignty-association was proposed to the population of Quebec in the 1980 Quebec referendum.
		Their position is often so close to that of some moderate Quebec sovereigntists that many have jumped the fence both ways (former Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard and Quebec lawyer Guy Bertrand are well-known examples of this).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement (3699 words)

	Quebec, province, Canada. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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, and on the W by Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson Bay.
		Quebec city and Trois Rivières are on the north bank of the river, and Montreal, the leading industrial center of Canada, occupies an island where the Ottawa River joins the St. Lawrence.
		Quebec was recognized by Parliament as a “distinct society” because of its language and culture and was granted a veto over constitutional amendments.
	www.bartleby.com /65/qu/Quebecprov.html (1682 words)

	The History of Canada and Canadians - Quebec Separatism
		Beginning in the 1960s Quebec was the center of militant agitation to separate it from Canada and establish a French-speaking nation.
		A party pledged to Quebec separatism won the 1976 provincial election and passed several measures to strengthen the movement.
		Quebec promised that it would accept the 1982 constitution if the accord was approved by all the rest of the provinces.
	www.linksnorth.com /canada-history/quebecsep.html (352 words)

	Quebec Separatism
		Quebec has been long dominated by the most regressive incarnation of the Catholic church.
		Implications for Indians and Anglophone Quebec residents of the rightward shift of Parti québecois.
		The slim victory by the NO side in the referendum was a direct result of the fraudulent nature of the referendum question, which suggested that Quebec will somehow be able to divorce itself from Canada and remarry, simultaneously.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/44/index-iba.html (284 words)

	uni.ca - Origins of Quebec separatism
		During the late 1960s, the movement was motivated primarily by the belief, shared by many Quebec intellectuals and labour leaders, that the economic difficulties of Quebec were caused by confederation and could only be ended by altering--or ending--the ties with other provinces and the central government.
		The rate of growth of the French Canadian population and the lack of good workable land outside the narrow St. Lawrence and Richelieu valleys contributed to the rush to low-paying jobs in urban industries and to the growth of slums, particularly in Montreal.
		By 1921 Quebec was the most urbanized and industrialized of all Canadian provinces, including Ontario, which remained, however, the most populous and the wealthiest.
	www.uni.ca /sep_origins.html (1053 words)

	Quebec : Anti-Separatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Separatism is mostly a french-canadian affair — this would seem to indicate some undercurrent of racism or at least a cultural element present.
		Separatism would only give the provincial government more means to enforce their cultural ideals.
		Perception of Quebec as being treated unfairly could be (but is not necessarily) the result of selective thinking, focusing on perceived unfairness in certain cases, but not noticing unfairness towards other provinces in other cases.
	www.libertarianthought.com /smalltexts/antiseparatism.html (1274 words)

	Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/Quebec Sovereignty and Canadian National Unity
		In 1998 Quebec's Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Joseph Facal, published a document on Quebec Sovereignty and the Rule of Law in which he asserts that the Supreme Court recognized the separatists' claims.
		The Quebec government responded a few days later with their own legislation, Bill 99 - An Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Quebec people and the Quebec State, which declares the autonomy of the Quebec people and the National Assembly to decide their future.
		Quebec separation is not the only challenge to national unity in Canada, as there are groups dedicated to the independence of some of the Western provinces as well.
	www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/quebec.html (711 words)

	Quebec Separatism
		Quebec was originally discovered and colonized by the French, but surrendered to the English following the French and Indian Wars and Treaty of Paris of 1763.
		Quebec society was undergoing considerable changes in the 20th century, moving away from its agrarian, Catholic, and conservative past and becoming increasingly urban and middle class.
		Quebec's refusal of the Constitution Act prompted the federal government to pursue what would be known as the Meech Lake Accord, designed to increase the power of the provinces and recognize Quebec as a "distinct society" within Canada.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/quebec.htm (1524 words)

	BLOG.THISMAGAZINE.CA
		In discussing the election with my friends in Quebec, one thing that struck me was the number of left-leaning people I know who supported the Bloc Quebecois and who were happy enough at the thought of the BQ holding the balance of power in Parliament.
		Separatism is an assault on both functions of the constitution.
		Ottawa may have been able to stop Quebec separatism but it is highly unlikely they'll be able to do a thing when half to three qaarters of their provinces band together and rebel against them.
	blog.thismagazine.ca /archives/2004/06/why_is_the_left.html (1866 words)

	Quebec Separatism (from Canada) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The name Nouveau-Québec (“New Quebec”) once was used synonymously with Ungava for that part of the Labrador-Ungava peninsula between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea, north of the Eastmain and Churchill (Hamilton) rivers, which was, at the time, a part of the Northwest Territories.
		Quebec lies on the north bank of the St. Lawrence River, at the northeastern extremity of a rocky tableland.
		Quebec is both the oldest and the largest of Canada's 10 provinces.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-198187?ct= (876 words)

	The Quebec Factor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Quebec separatism has since then receded, but it is far from gone.
		Quebec often boasts how it does more trade with the United States than with the rest of Canada, and obvious benefits would arise from not having to deal with trade barriers that exist at international boundaries.
		Surely, Quebec would be free to protect their own culture and heritage within the confines of the US Constitution, which provides liberty and equality for all.
	www.unitednorthamerica.org /quebec.htm (975 words)

	The changing face of separatism, by Ignacio Ramonet
		He is outspoken about some of his supporters who have, he thinks, too narrow and "ethnocentric" a view of Quebec as a nation (2), rather than share his own view of a "civic nationalism" which breaks with the traditional nationalism based exclusively on the French-Canadian majority.
		Quebec firms such as Alcan (aluminium), Bombardier (aeronautics), Hydro-Québec (electricity), Québécor (paper) are now world leaders in their fields.
		The combined effect of a protracted struggle (more than 30 years), a spectacular rise in standards of living, and the fact of having a non-confrontational adversary (Canada is ranked number one by the UN in terms of human development), has led to a sort of weariness.
	mondediplo.com /2001/02/01quebec (763 words)

	Constitutional Keywords – Sovereignty-Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the 1970s Quebec public opinion polls consistently reported that people were more likely to support political independence if it included maintaining an economic partnership with Canada.
		A mandate to negotiate ‘sovereignty-association’ was the subject of the 1980 Quebec referendum, the first Quebec referendum on sovereignty.
		These declarations generally are conceded to have contributed to the decisive defeat the separatists suffered in the 1980 referendum.
	www.law.ualberta.ca /ccskeywords/sovereignty.html (333 words)

	Trotskyists oppose Quebec separatism
		The IWP is campaigning for a no vote on Quebec separation as part of its struggle to unite workers in Canada--French-speaking, English-speaking and immigrant--in the struggle against all sections of the ruling class and its state.
		Various native groups in Quebec, egged on by federalist politicians who hope to use the threat of the partition of Quebec to impede separation, have announced plans to hold their own referendums on seceding from Quebec in the event of a yes vote.
		Quebec separatism is a reactionary solution to an objective problem: the present political division of the world corresponds to a bygone economic era.
	www.wsws.org /public_html/prioriss/iwb9-25/quebec.htm (1326 words)

	Statehood for Quebec
		Quebec is mentioned, by indirection, in the Declaration of Independence (the "neighboring province" enlarged by Britain at the expense of other colonies), and Washington, D.C. named a street for Quebec, just as for each of the States.
		French Quebecers will have to fight to preserve their language and culture against the English-language steamroller of assimilation, but the same could be said of just about everyone on this planet, whatever their language.
		Quebecers who worry about the potential loss of old-age pensions, medical coverage, R.R.S.P., damage to the environment, etc., should realize that these matters are largely within the control of States, which have very considerable independent powers of legislation and regulation in the U.S. federal scheme.
	hometown.aol.com /XPUS/Quebec.html (6041 words)

	Separatism
		The ringing call for a repudiation of separatism and the summons to social involvement received a hearty response from many evangelicals...
		It differed from fundamentalism in its repudiation of separatism and its determination to engage itself in the theological dialogue of the day.
		Repudiation of separatism may sound acceptable until you realize that it is a repudiation of God's command about how to treat apostasy.
	www.americanpresbyterianchurch.org /separatism.htm (5128 words)

	NATIONALISM - Spitting in the soup
		The question confronting Quebec nationalists is one that has confounded movements of national liberation throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.
		While Quebec will certainly be in better economic shape than post-colonial Ghana or Indonesia, the room for governments to manoeuvre and shape their own economic destinies has if anything narrowed from the heady days of Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sukarno.
		Quebec’s provincial debt (without even adding on their share of the national debt) is the highest in the country, working out at about $10,212 per head.
	www.newint.org /issue277/soup.htm (1794 words)

	Arguments for Quebec separatism
		Quebecers must not "write off" the U.S. on that account, however, because the existence of Canada as a country separate from the United States has always been something of an annoyance to the United States, and there is a lot in Canadian-U.S. history that argues for the United States' siding with Quebec and against Canada.
		Quebec's economic interests lie not in artificial east-west commerce within sparsely populated Canada but in natural north-south commerce with the vastly populous regions of the United States, Mexico, and points south in the Hemisphere-wide free trade area now emerging.
		Quebecers should make plain to Americans that when English Canadians cozy up to the United States to try to draw the U.S. in on their side of the argument between French and English Canada, they are doing so not for U.S. interests but for anti-U.S. interests.
	members.aol.com /XPUS/ForQCsep.html (10330 words)

	Quebec premier's resignation intensifies crisis within separatist movement
		Quebecers, he said, had failed to respond to federal social spending initiatives that “intrude” on areas of provincial jurisdiction.
		Said Bouchard, “I believed, and I still believe, that one of the best ways of persuading Quebecers of their ability to govern themselves, with all their resources and powers, is through a concrete demonstration of their potential and that of their state”.
		Under a “radical”, if not socialist”; facade, Quebec nationalism served to quarantine an increasingly rebellious Quebec working class from its class brothers and sisters in the rest of Canada and channel its struggles away from a challenge to the profit system.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/feb2001/can-f05.shtml (1716 words)

	Web Activity Lesson Plan, Our World Today: People, Places, and Issues, Glencoe, 2003
		In the province of Quebec, the influence of the original French settlers is still present.
		Those who opposed Quebec separatism (the “No” campaign) argued that separatism would result in economic disaster for Quebec and called for people to display a spirit of national unity.
		Those who supported Quebec separatism (the “Yes” campaign) appealed to Quebecers’ pride in their French language and culture and played on the resentment many felt toward English Canada for refusing to give Quebec more power to protect its culture.
	www.glencoe.com /sec/socialstudies/geography/owt2003/content.php4/191/5 (310 words)

	Quebec Nationalism \| Quebec Separatism \| Quebec Sovereignty \| Questia.com Online Library
		Quebec Sociology and Quebec Society: The Construction of a Collective Identity, in Canadian Journal of Sociology
		For the French-speaking population of Quebec, this predisposition...outside of the Parti Quebecois, an effort to transform...the "old" ethnic...
		Quebec aspirations pulled by nationalism, free markets and globalization...Institute for the Study of Canada.","Quebec aspirations pulled by nationalism, free markets and...
	www.questia.com /popularSearches/quebec_nationalism.jsp (690 words)

	Fighting Quebec Separatism
		The Quebec government has issued statements to French soldier of the Canadian military discussion the action they should take if Quebec was to separate.
		The Quebec government has also urged women to "reproduce" so that a french majority would have a greater per centage in the province.
		In April 1998, the Quebec government refused two sets of parents the right to name their daughters.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Bunker/9820/main.html (579 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Forget Quebec separatism, is it time to kick them out? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I think Quebec is becoming more of a liability that an asset for Canada because all they do is whine and bitch to get more money from the rest of the country and once they get it, they whine and bitch anyway.
		Quebec is well known in Canada for its progressive social laws and sexual attitudes.
		I love Quebec but for the sake of the nation I'm starting, but not yet sure, if its time to just say goodbye and call it a day before Alb/BC strike out on their own and NFLD as well with its new oil.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /printthread.php?t=207829 (2221 words)

	Quebec divided over separatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		MONTREAL (AP) - A year after the referendum that nearly split Canada in two, Quebec is as polarized as ever, its economy in disarray and its morale soured by ceaseless debate over separatism.
		In part because of political uncertainty, outside investment in Quebec has shrunk and thousands of people are leaving for other provinces.
		Quebec's separatist-led provincial government doesn't minimize the economic woes.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/102896/quebec.htm (231 words)

	How to kill Quebec separatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Last week's election results in Quebec were the culmination of a bad year for separatism.
		The bill repudiates the advisory opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada that found that there is no right to secede, that secession requires an amendment to the Constitution, that any secession settlement must protect the rule of law, the principle of federalism and the rights of minorities.
		The federal government must declare firmly, unequivocally, that it is the trustee, not the owner, of native lands in Quebec, that these lands will never be handed over to Quebec as part of a secessionist agreement unless the First Nations themselves choose to secede from Canada.
	www.vigile.net /00-12/bill-kill.html (741 words)

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