Sovereignty

A new research institute will ‘show the advantages of independence’. It’s hard to see what it could possibly add to the old argument.

Did Canada really patriate its constitution in ’82? The official answer: not quite.

You don’t talk about Sovereignty Club. Second rule: imaginary worlds rock!

While Quebec fights for independence, the Vancouver Whitecaps battle for Cascadian pride on the pitch

The Liberals are reportedly considering a motion on the Clarity Act for the purposes of making trouble for the NDP, which gives Christian Paradis a chance to express his disappointment in both the Liberals and New Democrats.

On the eve of Quebec’s election, Thomas Mulcair talks to Postmedia.

Justin Trudeau offers a complicated hypothetical involving gay marriage, abortion and “ten thousand” other things to explain how he could maybe one day think Quebec needs to separate from Canada. Via Twitter, he attempts to clarify.

Romeo Saganash restates his position on secession and recounts his life.

My colleague Alec Castonguay, who toils over at our sister publication L’actualité, posted a first-rate interview with Pauline Marois earlier this week that’s a must-read for anyone interested in the Parti Québécois’ ongoing travails. Among the things that stood out to me was Marois’s apparent doubling-down on the policies that drove away four members of her caucus earlier this summer—namely, her insistence that a referendum shouldn’t be top-of-mind for the party. Of the nascent Nouveau Mouvement pour le Québec, aka the new home of sovereigntist hardliners in Quebec, Marois says they “should start from where Quebecers are at… There isn’t a crazy appetite for sovereignty, even if polls have us at 40-45 per cent ,” she says. (CROP pegs support for sovereignty at 38 per cent and Léger at 36 per cent, but let’s not quibble.) “Renewal isn’t about waiting for the referendum.”

The Toronto Star attempts to survey the NDP’s Quebec caucus.

Respondents to a Harris/Decima survey seem mostly unmoved by Nycole Turmel’s Bloc Quebecois membership.

While the Prime Minister’s Office tries to explain the difference between Denis Lebel and Nycole Turmel, Pat Martin invokes the red-baiting days of yore.