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With Quebec Premier François Legault staring down a humiliating defeat at the hands of the separatist Parti Québécois, his government has pursued a radical plan to simply declare de facto independence before the next election.

The Quebec National Assembly is currently reviewing a proposed Quebec Constitution which would declare the province a “free national State” unbeholden to the Crown and able to ignore Ottawa at will.

The 40-page document describes a “fully sovereign” and autonomous “State of Québec” free to choose its own judges, conduct its own foreign policy, override any federal law and participate in the “common institutions of the Canadian federal union” only where it feels like it.

“No other parliament or government may reduce the powers, authority, sovereignty or

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