Quebec Mirror Law
Following the adoption of the Clarity Act by the federal government, the Quebec provincial government adopted its own law An Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Québec people and the Québec State, This provincial act was inspired by the same decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that the federal one was.
This Quebec act emphasizes the right to self-determination according to public international law. It also claims the right to territorial integrity of the province of Quebec. The act also recognizes the rights of Quebec's English-speaking minority and of the First Nations of Quebec. Finally, Article 13 clearly responds to the Canadian federal Clarity Act by stating: "No other parliament or government may reduce the powers, authority, sovereignty or legitimacy of the National Assembly, or impose constraint on the democratic will of the Québec people to determine its own future."
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