Opinion: Irony and contradiction in Quebec's proposed constitution

For more than four decades, many Quebec francophones have argued — often passionately — that they were rejected, unrecognized or insufficiently reflected in the 1982 Canadian Constitution. The absence of Quebec’s formal consent remains, for many, a defining grievance. That sense of constitutional exclusion has shaped political discourse for generations. Quebec’s proposed Constitution Act, Bill 1, is presented as a corrective — an effort to articulate the defining fo