Quebec Sovereigntists Debate Fallout from Québec Solidaires Decisions on Alliances
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1426 .... June 5, 2017
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Quebec Sovereigntists Debate Fallout from Québec Solidaire’s Decisions on Alliances
As I explained in my previous report on the Québec solidaire (QS) congress, it was disclosed after the congress that the QS central leadership had disavowed the signatures by its representatives on a proposed "road map" to independence drafted in April by the coalition OUI Québec, which includes all the pro-independence parties including QS.
That decision, not reported to the QS congress delegates in late May, has since given rise so far to several articles, all of them published in the Montréal nationalist daily Le Devoir. I have translated them below. They include, in order:
* an explanation of its decisions by the QS national leadership, signed by the party's newly-elected president Nika Deslauriers;
* a reply to Raunet by two OUI Québec leaders including its president Claudette Carbonneau, former president (2002-2011) of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN); and
* a comment by Sol Zanetti, the leader of Option nationale (ON).
Zanetti is replying to the release by Quebec Liberal premier Philippe Couillard on June 1 of a 200-page book he has sponsored -- titled in its English translation Quebecers: Our Way of Being Canadian -- calling for re-opening of constitutional talks with the rest of Canada in the hope of finally getting Quebec's approval of the 1982 Constitution, disavowed at the time by a near-unanimous vote of the members of Quebec's National Assembly.
Zanetti's article is his party's first official statement following the QS congress's vote to move toward a possible fusion with ON. And it is also, as expected, a challenge to QS to "review the mandate it wants to give to its constituent assembly proposal."
-- Richard Fidler