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There'll always be a Canada and a Canadian Constitutional Crisis

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Since 1976, when an avowedly separatist Parti Québécois under René Lévèsque took power in Quebec, Canada has been caught up in a drama of continuing constitutional crisis, or so it appears. The most critical act was the popular defeat on referendum in October 1992 of a comprehensive settlement reached unanimously by the first ministers, federal and provincial, and the territories with concurrence of interested groups. The latest act was a Quebec election in September 1994, which returned the Parti Québécois to power and may result in another Quebec referendum on independence sometime in 1995. This article seeks to provide some historical perspective on the apparently continuing crisis; by breaking the crisis up into its components, discontinuity becomes rather more prominent than continuity. Without attempting to predict outcome, it is reasonable to hope that there will, indeed, always be a Canada with Quebec included.

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  • Thomas G. Barnes, 1995. "There'll always be a Canada and a Canadian Constitutional Crisis," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 538(1), pages 27-39, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:538:y:1995:i:1:p:27-39
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716295538000004
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