Vieille rengaine... Toujours la même insolence! Toujours les mêmes illusions!
the clarity act makes it very difficult for any province to leave Confederation, ensuring a constitutional checkmate
But is it really possible today for Quebec, acting on its own, to separate from the rest of Canada? Clearly, the best insurance policy that Ottawa has against Quebec separatism is the 2000 federal Clarity Act. (...) By securing a veritable constitutional checkmate, the law has effectively boxed the separatists in and placed the referendum issue in a semi-permanent deep freeze.