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In addition to the main French-speaking national group, Quebec is home to 10 distinct Amerindian nations, the Inuit nation and a minority of Anglophones who tend to identify as Canadians first.

The British North America Act is the works of British imperialists and would have been rejected by Québec at the September 1867 election if it had not been for a blatant electoral fraud. (See the history section) In order to create the confederated Dominion of Canada, the non-elected colonial government first had to neutralize the elected leaders of Lower Canada (Papineau and the Parti Patriote) and unite the two Canadas (Upper and Lower) with the 1840 Union Act, hence forcing the Canadiens to become a politically weakened minority destined to assimilation in the new political system of the colony. The constitution of 1867 changed nothing of this reality.  

The Indirect Rule and the massive immigration of British subjects to Canada were still in effect under the centralizing Federation disguised as a Confederation. From a democratic standpoint, the legitimacy of the Confederation can be considered null. Even worst, in 1982, the constitution was amended and repatriated without the signature of the National Assembly of Québec. Quebecers are governed by a constitution they officially rejected.

    

==3. The majority of Québec's independentists favor a republican form of government==

The word "Québécois" is not an invention of the Parti Québécois. It has been used to designate the citizens of Québec since the confederation and also the citizens of Québec City long before. The French-speaking majority of Québec has not always used this term when referring to itself and the English-speaking minority never did, except when deprived of its very meaning. As a term referring to a political nation, it only appeared when the French Canadians of Québec chose to adopt it as their main defining identity during the Quiet Revolution. Read on the Quiet Revolution to learn more. The main cultural group constituting the Québécois are the descendants of the 19th century French-speaking Canadiens and immigrants who have integrated this people. Canada used to be the name of what is essentially the two shores of the St-Laurent river, where the most important settlements of New France were located. Today, this land is called Québec, so we call ourselves Quebecers (in French Québécois ). Read The Québécois Identity is for All to learn more.

    

==8. The Parti patriote had wide support among Lower Canadians of all origins==

Québec's National Assembly (formerly Lower Canada's legislative assembly), is much older than the Canadian federal House of Commons, which London "created" in 1867. The existence of a political nation within Québec goes back to 1791 when, under the Constitutional Act voted by London, the Canadien population voted its first assembly of representatives. The Assembly of Lower Canada, located in Québec City, was the only institution democratically representing the people of Lower Canada (i.e., the Canadiens). When the non-elected colonial government of Lower Canada lost control of the population in 1837, it ordered the arrest of the Patriot leaders. An armed conflict broke out. Following the defeat of the rebels, Lower Canada was annexed to Upper Canada in 1841. This is not an isolated event in British history. Read the page on other independence movements to learn of similar events in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. You can also visit the website of the National Assembly of Québec to learn more about this institution.