Québec encadré

Nous voudrons parler pour nous-mêmes



À mon avis, en ce début du XXIe siècle, le Québec connaîtra, à l'égard d'Ottawa, la même évolution qu'a connue, au début du siècle dernier, le Canada à l'égard de Londres. Nous voudrons parler pour nous-mêmes.

Slicing sovereignty



Before Premier Jean Charest calls the next Quebec election, he must decide whether to run as a federalist or a sovereigntist. He poses as a soft sovereigntist in an interview published in a French newsmagazine in July. He told Express Quebec is a nation and its political status is not the same as other provinces. He says Quebec's position in the asymmetrical federation called Canada is similar to France's pla...

Ottawa wise to Quebec 'games'



Memo: Internal documents: Province pushes 'the envelope' in its foreign relations OTTAWA - The Quebec government's pressure tactics on the federal government to win itself a greater role in the European Union have included "surprises and game-play" to get invited to ministerial meetings, an internal Foreign Affairs memo reveals. The memo was among documents obtained through the Access to In...

Charest says Quebec equal to Ottawa on world stage



OTTAWA - Quebec is on equal footing with the federal government on the international stage and the province's distinct place in Canada is similar to France within the Europe Union, Premier Jean Charest said in a recent interview. Charest told Express magazine, a weekly newsmagazine in France during his visit to Paris in July, that asymmetrical federalism in Canada gives Quebec a unique political status in the c...

Ottawa not our boss, Charest tells French: 'We are a people and a nation'



OTTAWA - Quebec is on equal footing with the federal government on the international stage and the province's distinct place in Canada is similar to France within the Europe Union, Premier Jean Charest said in a recent interview with a French magazine. Mr. Charest told Express, a weekly newsmagazine in France, that asymmetrical federalism in Canada gives Quebec a unique political status apart from the other pro...