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| | The Implications of Recognizing Quebec as a Distinct Society in the Constitution An earlier version of this paper was ... |
 | | It's not just the provision of a distinct society in the constitution that is being advocated, but that there be an express provision in that clause requiring the courts to interpret the Canadian constitution in the light of the distinct society. | | | The three points to bear in mind, then, as I discuss the distinct society clause, are that it is difficult to change the constitution; once the provision is in, you can not get it out; and the constitutional provisions are susceptible to meanings to be given to them by the judges at any given time. | | | Almost right away, the government of Quebec, which at that time was a separatist government under René Levesque, brought court proceedings, first to the Court of Appeal of Quebec, and then to the Supreme Court of Canada, challenging the validity of the patriation package. |
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http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/pps/7
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| | Wednesday, December 6, 1995 -- GOVERNMENT ORDERS (272) |
| | According to certain premiers, the semi-official nature of the distinct society concept could have led to the Canadian courts' not using that clause in interpreting the Canadian Constitution. | | | They want a distinct society clause that will protect their rights over language, culture and civil law while keeping the province French. | | | Because as is stated in part (2) of the motion, the government wants the House to recognize that Quebec's distinct society includes its French speaking majority, unique culture and civil law tradition. |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/english/hansard/previous/272_95-12-06/272GO2E.html
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| | Civilization - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | The degree of continuity between Harappan and Vedic civilization is subject to considerable debate, and they may be distinct civilizations. | | | How many distinct civilizations exist at present is also a subject of some debate. | | | The list below includes a number of civilizations commonly identified by historians. |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Civilize
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| | Distinct society |
| | It's remarkable how much one could get through that clause if the courts say, well, yes, in some circumstances, it can override certain dispositions of the Charter of Rights. | | | Remember Bill 150 (the enabling legislation for the referendum) -- it was a Liberal bill. | | | "With respect to the Supreme Court, Quebec as a distinct society wishes to ensure that it is adequately represented on the Court, which is the ultimate arbiter." Also, when he thought Meech Lake (with Distinct Society and Veto powers for Quebec) would pass, |
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http://www.equality.qc.ca/distinct.htm
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| | Fascism and the "Distinct Society" in Quebec, by Pierre Lemieux |
| | Another example: there are doubts as to whether the most extreme antismoking regulations that are spreading like wildfire all over the continent could be enforced here. | | | Indeed, mainstream nationalists view a powerful state as constitutive of the distinct society. | | | The 1995 electoral program of the Parti Québécois (the now governing separatist party) defined Quebec society with words like tolerance, peacefulness, social solidarity, all identified with the Welfare State and opposed to North American individualism and "blind capitalism." |
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http://www.pierrelemieux.org/artdist.html
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| | Jay Hill, MP |
| | And federal Liberals are falling all over themselves to endorse it. | | | That’s three vetoes over entrenching distinct society status in the Constitution - or is the veto just another meaningless Liberal promise? | | | One year later, Quebec Liberal leader Daniel Johnson is again demanding Constitutional entrenchment of Quebec& distinctiveness. |
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http://www.jayhillmp.com/news/weekcol/1996/19961211.htm
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| | Essay on Should Quebec become a "distinct society" in Canada? |
| | Please login or register to access the full copy. | | | They don't need a to be distinct when they have no real need to be distinct from Canada. | | | The term "distinct society" in Quebec allows Quebec to have more control over many aspects of Quebec's affairs and policy. |
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http://www.dedicatedwriters.com/paper/Should_Quebec_become_a_distin-168297.html
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| | Quebec |
| | However, a new issue has risen that drives to the heart of the two primary Canadian cultures. | | | What exactly is a “distinct society?” Perhaps this means that Quebec is the homeland of the French language and culture and Quebec makes its own civil law, which is distinct from the English common law that is prevalent throughout the rest of Canada. | | | This singling out of cultures has created this civil strife in Canada and goes against the French-speaking fathers of the Confederation who placed emphasis on creating a single great nation. |
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http://students.ou.edu/A/Kevin.D.Ash-1/cult.htm
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| | Custom Writing on Quebec's Struggles for a Distinct Society & Fr-Can Natnalsm |
| | Please login or register to access the full copy. | | | The French-Canadian nationalism can if fact, be thought of as an act of self-preservation. | | | …struggles of becoming a distinct society, with its own sovereign and protected culture, is indeed closely linked to its people's desire of secession. |
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http://www.vipessays.com/termpaper/Quebecs_Struggles_for_a_Disti-120781.html
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| | Distinct society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Charlottetown Accord (proposed amendments to the Constitution rejected in 1992) had a so-called "Canada clause" that would have also recognized Quebec as a distinct society. | | | Since the death of the accord in 1990, the use of the expression has faded since it is tied to the failure of the Meech agreement, and because of the present general use, within Quebec, of the term nation to describe Quebec, its people, and its State. | | | It was used in the official documents of the accord. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinct_society
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| | THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE (I - VII) |
| | In order that we may better understand the distinction between the two, we may bring as an illustration the single word "class," and the interpretation of which it is capable. | | | The position of one class may be better or worse, more advantageous or less so, than the position of a second class. | | | For no matter how advantageous the position of a given society may be in the sphere of its usual conditions of production, it may nevertheless strive to expand its production, to increase the sum total of its energies. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/il2/borochov/class.html
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| | Inherent Right To Self-Government-April23,1992 |
| | WHEREAS it was recommended in the Beaudoin-Dobbie Report that Quebec be recognized as a distinct society both in the proposed Canada Clause to be used to interpret Canada's Constitution and in a further interpretation provision to be applicable to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; and | | | FINALLY BE IT RESOLVED THAT the National Chief and the Constitution Working Group, Sovereign Treaty First Nations Council ensure that the Constitution of Canada is not amended in any way that would result in the subordination of the First Nations in Quebec to the Government of Quebec. | | | positive recognition of Aboriginal peoples as distinct societies in an Aboriginal interpretation clause (Part II of the Constitution Act, 1982); and |
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http://www.afn.ca/resolutions/1992/sca/res2.htm
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| | CBC News: Charest's constitutional proposal 'shameful': Landry |
| | MONTREAL - Premier Bernard Landry is accusing Quebec's Liberal party of betraying the province with its latest policy on constitutional reform. | | | Liberal Leader Jean Charest told reporters Saturday that "specificity" would carry the same legal powers as the old "distinct society" clause championed by his predecessor, former Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa. | | | But Landry said trying to get Quebec to finally sign the 1982 Constitution under those terms would be a "spectacular and serious regression." The province has special political status, he said, and must separate from the rest of Canada. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/11/11/landry_011111
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| | Will Kymlicka |
| | Hollinger's theory seems to rule such nationalist claims out of court. | | | Furthermore, the multiculturalism Quebec society is trying to promote, far from being closed and static, contradicts the contention that minority nationalism is not compatible with a liberal conception of nationhood. | | | After all, the Quebecois and indigenous peoples in Canada claim legally recognized rights of self-government over their traditional territories, and the justification for these claims is precisely that these societies were "well-established" prior to British dominion. |
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http://agora.qc.ca/liens/kymlicka.html
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| | THE EVOLVING CHANGE IN QUEBEC'S DISTINCT SOCIETY |
| | If they are able to do this, they may be able to place themselves in a position to influence the direction of the change. | | | The survival of Quebec's distinct group and their language acquired special relevance after Canada's federal government introduced the asinine and unnecessary policy of multiculturalism, a means for the liberal party to improve their low standing in the opinion polls at the time. | | | The significant achievement of the federal multiculturalism policy was to ignite a high level of nationalist fervour in Quebec, including compulsory French language policies and greater urgency to seek political independence from Canada. |
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http://www.quebecoislibre.org/020706-10.htm
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| | AllRefer.com - Meech Lake Accord (Canadian History) - Encyclopedia |
| | Other provisions increase provincial powers in immigration, provide for provincial input in appointing supreme court judges, restrict federal spending power, and restore the provincial right to constitutional veto. | | | Meech Lake Accord, set of constitutional reforms designed to induce Quebec to accept the Canada Act. | | | The Accord's five basic points, proposed by Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, include a guarantee of Quebec's special status as a "distinct society" and a commitment to Canada's linguistic duality. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/M/MeechLak.html
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| | Discover John Locke - Quotes - DiscoverJohnLocke.ORG - PRODOS Institute Inc. |
| | "Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to the public good of the society. | | | As he that in the state of society, would take away the freedom belonging to those of that society or commonwealth, must be supposed to design to take away from them everything else". | | | The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his". |
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http://discoverjohnlocke.com/quotes.html
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| | H-Net Review: Philip J. Landon on French-Canadian Civilization |
| | This brief but remarkably informative study of Quebec politics is part of a series of papers designed by The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States to introduce American undergraduates to various aspects of Canadian society. | | | East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1989, 1996. | | | This decision might pose a problem for American readers unfamiliar with the combination of historical and cultural forces which shaped the "distinct society" known as French Canada. |
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18017864330191
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| | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (01/07/96) |
| | Obviously, French Quebecers form a distinct people and, as such, they naturally want their own country. | | | I wonder what would we all be saying if a similar situation occurred in Ukraine, which, by the way, may still happen there in the future. | | | In fact, just before the referendum, the Ukrainian radio program in Montreal was urging all Ukrainians to vote "no" to Quebec's independence. |
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http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1996/019620.shtml
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| | Society Distinct cousins |
| | David Hinchliffe, Labour chair of the commons health select committee, has no doubt that what is happening in Scotland over long-term care is a positive step. | | | The Welsh assembly, albeit with fewer powers than its Scottish equivalent, has similarly opened the door for policy contrasts. | | | The establishment of a separate Scottish parliament in 1999, however, has underlined just how distinctive Scottish policy can become. |
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http://society.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4131732-107446,00.html
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| | CPSF15: Party Against Quebec As Distinct Society |
| | CPSF15 Party Against Quebec As Distinct Society Valid Cum Value Label Value Frequency Percent Percent Percent Reform Only 1 1613 40.9 46.6 46.6 Reform andAnyOther 3 21.5.6 47.2 AnyOther Mention 5 603 15.3 17.4 64.7 No,DoNotRemember 7 745 18.9 21.5 86.2 D.K. Refused 9 15.4.4 100.0. |
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http://yorku.ca/isr/projects/ces/english/data/variables/section_f/cpsf15.html
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| | Quebec Studies Journal Vol. 13 - American Council for Quebec Studies (ACQS) |
| | This issue of Québec Studies highlights the on-going political discussions, negotiations, and stances taken with regard to the "distinct society" concept. | | | examine the incompatibility of political dualism and recognition of Quebec as a "distinct society" with the "prevailing visions of nationhood and national security in Canada outside Quebec." | | | argue, a fundamental disagreement over the meaning and purpose of Quebec's desired "distinct society" status within Canada. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/santorom/acqs/QSJ13.htm
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| | Distinct Society - anagrams |
| | Find anagram aliases of distinct society (or any other text)! | | | Find gold service anagrams of distinct society (or any other text)! |
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http://www.anagramgenius.com/archive/distin.html
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| | CPSJ3: Quebec Be Recognized As Distinct Society |
| | CPSJ3 Quebec Be Recognized As Distinct Society Valid Cum Value Label Value Frequency Percent Percent Percent Yes 1 886 22.4 30.3 30.3 No 5 1741 44.1 59.6 89.9 Depends 7 101 2.6 3.5 93.3 D.K. Refused 9 24.6.8 100.0. |
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http://yorku.ca/isr/projects/ces/english/data/variables/section_j/cpsj3.html
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| | Cartography1 |
| | of qualities determining the essence of a person or of a society, was still operating in reference to a stable monosemic world | | | have been aiming at building a monosemic consensual society based on the fact that a | | | From this perspective Michael Shapiro in Violent Cartographies puts into question the official stories which permeate societies based on a |
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