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Section 6 of the Act divided the Province of Canada into the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, based on the former boundaries of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. Section 146 of the Act provided for the future admission of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory , and British Columbia into the union.
The National Assembly of Quebec rejected the repatriation unanimously. In spite of Quebec's lack of assent, the constitution still applies within Quebec and to all Quebec residents. Many in Quebec felt that the other provinces' adoption of the amendment without Quebec's assent was a betrayal of the central tenets of federalism.
The National Assembly of Quebec (French: Assemblée nationale du Québec, pronounced [asɑ̃ble nɑsjɔnal dy kebɛk]) [1] is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members of the National Assembly; French: députés ).
Government of Canada. "1st Parliament". Members of the House of Commons: 1867 to Date: By Parliament. Library of Parliament. Archived from the original on 2006-12-20; Government of Canada. "Duration of Sessions". Library of Parliament. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14; Government of Canada. "General Elections"
With the acquisition of full sovereignty by Canada, this provision has limited effect. Section 133 establishes English and French as the official languages of the Parliament of Canada and the Legislature of Quebec. Either language can be used in the federal Parliament and the National Assembly of Quebec.
The first organization dedicated to the independence of Quebec was the Alliance Laurentienne, founded by Raymond Barbeau on January 25, 1957. [1] On September 10, 1960, the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN) was founded. On August 9 of that year, Raoul Roy founded the Action socialiste pour l'indépendance du Québec (ASIQ). In ...
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It was founded in 2011 by Jean-Martin Aussant, an independent member of the National Assembly (MNA) who had quit the Parti Québécois (PQ) earlier that year after being elected in 2008. The party had planned to use the name "Option Québec", as a nod to René Lévesque's 1968 manifesto An Option for Quebec, but it was already taken by another ...