There is an available PDF on the website, and while I recognize this is somewhat late I haven't seen anyone else post this. But while I recognize it's not certain this will pass, even bringing this up to a vote seems like a fairly serious move on the part of Quebec.
Posted by GripenHater
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This will definitely pass lol
Before anyone starts, no, this isn’t Quebec declaring its soft independence from the rest of Canada. J.J. McCullough just hates French Canadians.
Provinces can have constitutions, this isn’t laying any claim to things in federal jurisdiction, and ultimately most of this document is vibes.
Nobody else in the National Assembly is a fan. The CAQ is cratering in the polls, so this is its attempt to regain voters being lost to the PQ.
Given who’s introducing it (a pretty senior minister) it will presumably pass. At a skim, a lot of the stuff the new document states is honestly pretty uncontroversial, but the fact that they’re trying to pass a provincial law to amend the *Constitution of Canada* is some wild shit. The CAQ’s goal here is pretty transparently to manufacture a fight with Ottawa, because they’re currently very unpopular and think that this “fight” will be an election year winner.
Edit: I take back what I said about amending the Constitution of Canada, [see this thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1ot1f31/bill_1_qu%C3%A9bec_constitution_act_2025/no1h22i/)
Man imagine if Trump proposed a constitutional amendment that requires the US government to “protect the fundamental characteristics and the common heritage of America” or an amendment that requires the US government to “actively support the growth of the Anglo-American community”.
We would all rightfully call it out as racist and white nationalistic, but now replace Trump with Quebec and suddenly they’re right to “protect their culture”.