Conditions Under Which Québec Prefers a Strong Federal Government, or Why Decentralization is not Necessarily a Good Thing for Québec | Zendy

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Conditions Under Which Québec Prefers a Strong Federal Government, or Why Decentralization is not Necessarily a Good Thing for Québec

Author(s) -

Michel Venne

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

constitutional forum / forum constitutionnel

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1927-4165

pISSN - 0847-3889

DOI - 10.21991/c9q676

Subject(s) - federalism , decentralization , nothing , government (linguistics) , identity (music) , work (physics) , political science , cooperative federalism , sociology , law , art , engineering , epistemology , aesthetics , philosophy , politics , linguistics , mechanical engineering

Let me begin by thanking the organizers of a Simon Fraser University federalism work- shop for inviting a non-academic to share some reflections about federalism.1 This file cannot stay closed forever. While preparing these re- flections, I came across a lapel pin representing the fleur de lisé — the Québec flag — which il- lustrates one of the main points I want to stress here: the Québec question is essentially a ques- tion of identity and recognition. It has little or nothing to do with the so-called fiscal imbal- ance or any other specific problem of that kind.

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