Quebec sovereignty

PQ wants to create ‘training school’ to teach merits of splitting Quebec from Canada

Leader Pierre Karl Peladeau said the best way to defend the interests of the province is to turn it into a country

Kelly McParland: Canada’s three flawed leaders haul their baggage to the starting line

Who will be the next prime minister: the man 65% of Canadians dislike, the one who can't think of a reason to challenge ISIS, or the one who would make it easier for Quebec separatists to achieve their dream?

National Post View: Mulcair’s opportunism in Quebec is reckless

Only amnesia or extreme political opportunism can explain Mulcair’s mischievous twirl of this particular poker in the buried, but ever-glowing cinders of ethnic nationalism.

Allan Levine: 25 years later, loss of Meech Lake was the demise of a sweetheart deal

As every student of Canadian constitutional history knows, by the end of June 23, Mulroney’s worst nightmare had come true. The Meech Lake accord, intended to repair the alleged damage done by passage of the Constitution Act of 1982 without Quebec’s full approval, had collapsed.

Canada has lost a worthy and memorable adversary in Jacques Parizeau

Whatever was in Jacques Parizeau’s heart, he espoused a positive vision of a sovereign Quebec, not the sour, grievance-based polity that so many modern separatists seem to envision.

Graeme Hamilton: Francis Simard was a kidnapper and a killer. Being dead doesn’t change that

Graeme Hamilton: Thankfully, Mr. Simard left a written record that even the most blinkered apologists will be hard-pressed to refute

In Quebec, common sense has prevailed

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard has made it clear that he was opposed to further oppression of the English language. He is a less ambiguous and a braver federalist than any occupant of his position since Jean Lesage.

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