Quebec autonomism

Quebec autonomism is a political belief that Quebec should seek to gain more autonomy as a province, while remaining a part of the Canadian Confederation. Drawing inspiration from René Lévesque's "beau risque", and Robert Bourassa's work on the Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accord, its goals are, in short:

• Setting out the procedures for constitutional change
• A sharing of jurisdictions between the federal government and Quebec
• Framework for federal spending powers
• Institutional reform
• Reform of intergovernmental policies

In a speech to delegates of the ADQ, party leader Mario Dumont, on May 8, 2006, Dumont said that Quebec should seek to re-open negotiations with the federal government over Quebec's status in Confederation, and should eventually ratify the Constitution of Canada (undetermined 2006) (CTV Staff 2006).

The concept was first articulated by Maurice Duplessis and the conservative Union Nationale party which believed in greater provincial autonomy without independence from Canada.

References and notes

• CTV Staff (8 May 2006), "ADQ's Dumont calls for constitutional talks", CTV.ca News (CTV Television Network), archived from the original on 24 June 2009, http://www.webcitation.org/5hlIUKJ4r, retrieved 24 June 2009 
• undetermined (7 May 2006) (), Yahoo, http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/07052006/2/national-dumont-says-s-time-quebec-launch-new-round-constitutional.html 

See also

• Politics of Quebec
• Quebec federalist ideology
• Quebec sovereignty movement