Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Note on Translation xiv
6. Historical Perspectives on Federalist Thought in Quebec: Actors, Stakes, and Points of View 3
7. Reflections by an Old Veteran of the Canadian Constitutional Debate 16
8. Actors at the Heart of Politics: The Leaders and Their Parties
9. From Provincial Autonomy to Profitable Federalism: Quebec’s Special Status in the Eyes of Federalist Leaders during the Quiet Revolution 31
10. The Equality Party: A Trudeauist Vision of Federalism at the National Assembly 51
11. The Quebec Vision of Federalism and the Federal Ideal (1998–2008): Benoît Pelletier as a Barometer of Unresolved Tension 72
12. Third-Option Federalism: A Dialogue between Federalism and Nationalism? Action démocratique du Québec and Coalition avenir Québec (1990–2018) 93
13. Intellectuals and the Search for a “Third Option”
14. “In seeking to digest us, the federation has become very sick”: Evolution of the Federalist Thought of Traditionalist Intellectuals in the Case of François-Albert Angers (1945–73) 115
15. “Paving the Boulevard of Fraternity”: The Federalist Thought of Solange Chaput-Rolland 135
16. Charles Taylor’s Federalist Spirit Put to the Test of the Canadian Federation 159
17. Civil Society in Action: Groups and Public Figures
18. The Search for a Third Option in a Time of Crisis: Constitutional Positions of Federalist Pressure Groups, 1977–81 183
19. Quebec Feminists’ Engagement during the 1980 Referendum: How Should the Yvettes Be Interpreted? 205
20. Community(ies), Nation(s), State(s): Nicole Laurin, Richard Desjardins, and Fragments of Pluralist Federalist Thought 224
21. “Schools” of Thought and Research
22. Historian Michel Brunet and Canadian Federalism: “If I were [an English] Canadian, I would be the most ardent and enthusiastic centralizer there could be” 247
23. The Quebec “School” of History and the Idea of Federalism 269
24. The Quebec School of Diversity: The Emergence, Unfolding, and Renewal of a Line of Authentic Federalist Thought 290
25. Legal Considerations in Federalist Thought
26. Federalism and Canadian Foreign Policy: The Conception of the Gérin-Lajoie Doctrine 313
27. Quebec and Constitutional Conventions: Precarious Safeguards in Unwritten Federalism 330
28. The Root of the Deadlock: The Constitutional Veto in Federalist Thought in Quebec 352
29. Canadian Federalism since the 1982 Patriation: Advocating a Federalism of Empowerment 374
30. The Pressing Need for Federalist Forward Thinking in Quebec and the Rest of Canada 395
31. Contributors 405
32. Index 411