About Québec souverain!
The Quebec sovereignty movement is a political movement aimed at attaining sovereignty for Quebec, a province of the Canadian federation. The sovereigntists propose that Quebecers exercise their right to self-determination in order to democratically give themselves their first independent constitutional state of law.
With a sovereign state, the people of Quebec will be better equipped to foster their own economic, social, and cultural development. Quebec sovereigntists are not in opposition to federalism as a concept, but are opposed to the present federal system of Canada and do not believe it can be reformed in a way that could answer the legitimate wish of Quebecers to govern themselves freely.
The idea of sovereignty for Quebec is based on historical and sociological evidence that Quebecers are a people and a political nation, that they have democratic control over a state of their own, but that inside the Canadian federation as it currently stands, this state does not have the constitutional powers which the Quebec government needs to be the normal national government of all Quebecers. Within Canada, the national policies of Quebec clash with the national policies of the federal government.
Although Quebec sovereignty is primarily a political question, cultural concerns are also at the root of the desire for independence. Only sovereignty can adequately ensure the survival of the French language in North America, allowing Quebecers to establish their nationality, preserve their cultural identity, and keep their collective memory alive.
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