So recently the Québec Liberal Party had a general meeting, and one of the policies voted on during the meeting was if the Liberal Party of Québec should support the term "Québec as a nation".
The party agreed to the idea, but this will only cause separation within the party. There's the Québec "Liberals" who are federalists and believe in Canada an entirety, while there's others who want Québec to have more power than the rest of the provinces, or in some cases, even separation.
I believe the francophones in Québec deserve to have the socio-cultural anthropology definition of nation as a group of people who live in an area who have different characteristics than another culture, but not in the political sense. At the same time, the francomanitobains in Saint Boniface could also be concidered a "nation", same with hutterite/mennonite people on the prairies.. etc.
If these people want a degree of separation in Québec, why aren't they in either the Parti Québecois or the Québec Solidaire Party? They're both sovereignist parties.
The whole idea of "Québec as a nation" will cause some tension at the upcoming Federal Liberal Party leadership convention.
If this continues, the ADQ has a chance of picking up a large chunk of seats in the National Assembly since there will be many people who will want an alternative to Charest's Liberals and the Parti Québecois, and they seem to be more of a nationalist party than Parti Québecois will ever be. Quebec is a changing province, it's becoming more and more accepting towards Canada over time, although in some communities the French language is starting to die.
Link: Parti Liberal du Québec
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