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secession and self This page intentionally left blank Secession and Self Quebec in Canadian Thought gregory millard McGill-Queen’sUniversityPress Montreal&Kingston(cid:2)London(cid:2)Ithaca © McGill-Queen’sUniversityPress2008 isbn978-0-7735-3384-4 Legaldepositthirdquarter2008 BibliothèquenationaleduQuébec PrintedinCanadaonacid-freepaperthatis100%ancientforestfree (100%post-consumerrecycled),processedchlorinefree ThisbookhasbeenpublishedwiththehelpofagrantfromtheCanadian FederationfortheHumanitiesandSocialSciences,throughtheAidto ScholarlyPublicationsProgramme,usingfundsprovidedbytheSocial SciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanada. McGill-Queen’sUniversityPressacknowledgesthesupportoftheCanada CouncilfortheArtsforourpublishingprogram.Wealsoacknowledge thefinancialsupportoftheGovernmentofCanadathroughtheBook PublishingIndustryDevelopmentProgram(bpidp)forourpublishing activities. LibraryandArchivesCanadaCataloguinginPublication Millard,Gregory,1970– Secessionandself:QuebecinCanadianthought/GregoryMillard. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-0-7735-3384-4 1.Nationalism–Canada. 2.Federal-provincialrelations–Québec (Province). 3.Secession–Québec(Province). 4.Biculturalism– Canada. 5.Liberalism–Canada. 6.Canada–English-Frenchrelations. 7.Federalgovernment–Canada. I.Title. fc2926.9.s4m542008 320.540971 c2008-904999-3 TypesetbyJayTeeGraphicsLtd.in10.5/13NewBaskerville Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction:TheSearchforAffirmation 3 part one: principled affirmations section one: AgainstQuebec-in-Canada:Liberal-Democratic Critiques 2 LiberalCritiquesofQuebec-in-Canada 29 3 DemocraticCritiquesofQuebec-in-Canada 46 section two: AffirmingQuebec-in-Canada:JusticeandLiberalism 4 JustSecession?PartitionReconsidered 83 5 LiberalAffirmationsofQuebec-in-Canada 103 section three: BeyondJustice:TheSenseofMission,Complex Fraternity,andDevelopmentalVisions 6 Quebec-in-CanadaasGlobalExemplar 151 7 MoralFoundations?ComplexFraternityandDissociationas “Tragedy” 175 8 FromProgresstoDialogue:DevelopmentalVisionsofthe MultinationalState 185 part two: beyond principled affirmations: sketching the experiential 9 QuebecandExperientialAffirmation 221 ConcludingNote 247 Notes 251 WorksCited 317 Index 341 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments “IfI’daknowedwhatatroubleitwastomakeabook,”saidHuckleberry Finn,“Iwouldn’tatackledit.”ThatIcannotsaythesameisduetothe helpandkindnessofmanypeople. ProfessorJockGunn,retired,oftheDepartmentofPoliticalStudies at Queen’s University (Kingston), supervised the PhD thesis upon whichthisbookisbased,withunfailinghumour,patience,andnolittle compassion. In both scholarship and teaching, Professor Gunn’s are thestandardstowhichIstillaspire.Mydebtstohimcannotberepaid; butIhopethatthisbookatleastdoesthemsomejustice. ItwasmyprivilegetohaveWillKymlickareadadraftofthisworkand offer generous and extensive commentary, particularly on chapter 4. The manuscriptbenefitted from the commentsofDavid R. Cameron, MatthewMendelsohn,andMargaretMoore.EleanorMacDonaldshared her thoughts on aspects of the project at its most distant, inchoate stages.Ithankthemall. Jane Forsey, now at the University of Winnipeg, read and critiqued partsofthiswork;andsodidEllaOphir(UniversityofSaskatchewan), Craig Jones (late of Queen’s, now Executive Director of The John HowardSociety),andDemitriosGlentzakos(partsunknown).Friends, mayyourideyourhammockstothestars. PhilipC.CerconeandLigyAlakkattusseryofMcGill-Queen’sUniver- sityPressguidedthemanuscriptthroughitsmysteriousmetamorphosis fromthesistobook.Theanonymousreadersforthatpressalsooffered veryusefulcriticismsandsuggestions,resultinginastrongerwork.And KateMerriman’scopyeditingwasbothjudiciousandindispensable. Fortheflawsthatremain,Iam,ofcourse,whollytoblame. viii Acknowledgments ThisbookhasbeenpublishedwiththehelpofagrantfromtheCana- dian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the SocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanada.ThePhD thesisthatformedthebasicdraftofthemanuscriptwasfacilitatedbya Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship,1997–98(fileno.752–97–1819),aswellasbyanOntario GraduateScholarship(1999)andQueen’sUniversityGraduateAwards (1995–97). I suspect that Rod and Marie-Paule Millard, my parents, sowed the seedsofthisworkdecadesagothroughtheirpassionateconcernforthe unityofCanada.Andmydaughter,Faith,wasbornastheessentialsof this book reached completion. May she find here something of the Canadasheinherits. Finally,tomywife,Maria-LuisaLiberatore,Icanonlyholdoutthese pages – a work that her love and faith in me have sustained, unceas- ingly,forthefirstyearsofourlifetogether. Idedicatethisbooktoher. secession and self