Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, « Canadian Federalism and Quebec’s Pathological Prism», dans: S. Gervais, C. Kirkey et J. Rudy (dir.), Quebec Questions. Quebec Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Oxford University Press, 2016, 316-331.

Abstract

This paper seeks to explore how Canadian federalism is evaluated in Quebec. It argues that while many variables come into play in such an evaluative process, some "reasoning templates" consistently bend this process in a way that tends to yield unfavourable results for Canadian federalism. The central thesis underlying this chapter is that the nationalist agenda that dominates and frames, for all practical purposes, privincial political discourse in Quebec is constitutive of a pathological prism when it comes to evaluating how federalism fares in protecting or accommodating the province's interests.