Quebec federalism, in regards to the future of the Quebec people, defends the concept of Quebec remaining within Canada as opposed to Quebec sovereigntism, proponent of Quebec independence (most often, but not for all followers, along with an economic union with Canada similar to the European Union).
In Quebec, federalists, in regard to the future of the Quebec people, defend the concept of Quebec remaining within Canada, as opposed to Quebec sovereigntists, proponents of Quebec independence (most often, but not for all followers, along with an economic union with Canada similar to the European Union).
The Equality Party of Quebec, which was a large Anglophone protest party in the late 1980s and early 1990s before losing its representation to the Quebec Liberals, also adheres more or less to this ideology.
Since the split between the Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec and the federal New Democratic Party, there has not been a major left-wing federalist political party in Quebec, though a sizeable minority of leftists are federalists, as are most centrists and rightists.
Thus, essentially, the federal system is adopted where it is felt that the preservation of the individuality and separateness of the constituent parts is as important as the preservation of the nation as a whole.
Quebecers were not unmoved by visions of creating, in the northern half of the continent, a vast dominion which they would share with their anglophone compatriots.
Federalism also denies the application of simple majority rule since the purpose of federations is to recognise that the rights of small units have to be acknowledged and respected.
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