Opinions by individual militants

Michel Seymour, philosopher

Michel Seymour, professor of analytical philosophy

Biography in Wikipedia: Michel Seymour

• Michel Seymour's personal web site
• Québec Nationalism and Canadian Federalism, January 2001
• Exchange of letters between Michel Seymour and readers of the Inroads journal, November-December 2000
• On Redefining the Nation (PDF)
• Québec and Canada at the Crossroads: A Nation within a Nation (PDF)
• The anti-democratic drift of the federal government: A brief concerning Bill C-20
• Quebec's language laws : The long story of a complete misunderstanding (PDF)
• Secession as a Remedial Right (PDF)
• Nation-States, National Minorities and The Draft Treaty (PDF)
• "Introduction : Questioning the Ethnic / Civic Dichotomy", in Rethinking Nationalism, Jocelyne Couture, Kai Nielsen et Michel Seymour (dir), Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume XXII, 1996, 1-60. ISBN 0919491227
• "Toward a Cosmopolitan Law of Peoples: Asserting the rights and obligations of persons and nations", in Michel Seymour (dir), The Fate of the Nation-State, Montréal/Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, pp. 403-411.
• "Collective Rights in Multination States: from Ethical Individualism to the Law of Peoples", dans Michel Seymour (dir), The Fate of the Nation-State, Montréal/Kingston , McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, pp. 105-129.
• "An Inclusive Nation That Does Not Deny Its origins", in Michel Venne, Vive Quebec! New Thinking And New Approaches To the Quebec Nation, Toronto, James and Company, 2001, p.146-154.
• "On Redefining the Nation", in Nenad Miscevic (ed.), Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Chicago and La Salle, Open Court, 2000, 25-55.

Jean-François Lisée, journalist

Jean-François Lisée, journalist

Biography in Wikipedia: Jean-François Lisée

• Jean-François Lisée's publications in English and French
• The French fact in Québec and Canada: The Hidden Storm, Conference at the American University Summer Institute, Washington D.C., June 2004
• Taking the doctor's pulse: how to misdiagnose the Quebec problem, A review of Charles F. Doran's "Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care - Democratic Pluralism at Risk", published in Isuma - Canadian Review of Policy Research, Vol 3 No 2, Fall 2002, pp 129-132
• Books by Jean-François Lisée

Andrée Ferretti, RIN militant and writer

Andrée Ferretti, writer, former vice-president of the RIN

Biography in Wikipedia: Andrée Ferretti

• Read a translated excerpts of The Parti québécois: for or against independence?
• Various texts on the Website "Québec un pays" (French)
• More texts at Vigile.net (French)

Guy Bouthillier, former SSJB president

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Guy Bouthillier, former president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society

Biography in Wikipedia: Guy Bouthillier

• Fundamental law, or fundamental flaw? (2002)
• Why does it not simply eliminate all questions on ethnic origin and religion?
• Books by Guy Bouthillier (French)

Pierre Bourgault, former RIN president and journalist

Pierre Bourgault, journalist, former president of the RIN

Biography in Wikipedia: Pierre Bourgault

• A Radical from Quebec Passes by Norman Madarasz, CounterPunch, June 20, 2003
• Books by Pierre Bourgault

Jacques Ferron, writer

Jacques Ferron, writer

Biography in Wikipedia: Jacques Ferron

• Ten Years After, by Ray Ellenwood
• Jacques Ferron, écrivain (in French)

Michèle Lalonde, poet, playwright, essayist

Michèle Lalonde, poet, playwright, essayist

Biography in Wikipedia: Michèle Lalonde

• The political poem Speak White by Michèle Lalonde
• Défense et illustration de la langue québécoise, 1973
• Manifeste pour une Cause commune, 1981 (with Denis Monière)

Denis Monière, political scientist

Denis Monière, political scientist

Biography in Wikipedia: Denis Monière

• Le développement des idéologies au Québec: des origines à nos jours, 1977
• Les enjeux du référendum, 1979
• Pour la suite de l'histoire: essai sur la conjoncture politique au Québec, 1982
• Pour comprendre le nationalisme au Québec et ailleurs, 2001
• L'Indépendance, 2005

Félix Leclerc, singer, poet

Félix Leclerc, singer, songwriter, poet

Biography in Wikipedia: Félix Leclerc

• The political poem L'alouette en colère by Félix Leclerc ( >> English translation << )

Gaston Miron, poet

Gaston Miron, poet

Biography in Wikipedia: Gaston Miron

• Muriel Farley Dominguez, From Exile to Appartenance: The Poetry of Gaston Miron Reexamined, in The French Review, Vol. 62 (1994): 1013-1023.
• Gaston Miron : parole de poète, in Les archives de Radio-Canada
• L'Homme rapaillé, 1970

Gérald Godin, poet

Gérald Godin, poet

Biography in Wikipedia: Gérald Godin

• Read the article A Sovereign Presence - The poet and the politician in Gérald Godin by Jack M. Ruttan
• Gérald Godin, tendre et emporté, in Les archives de Radio-Canada

Daniel Turp, PQ MNA and constitutionalist

Daniel Turp, politician and constitutionalist

Biography in Wikipedia: Daniel Turp

• Quebec's Quest for Sovereignty and Partnership, Conference at the Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, March 20, 2001
• Québec's Right to Secessionist Self-Determination
• Don't buy Stéphane Dion's response to the secession ruling (1999)
• National Constitution of Québec (French)
• Daniel Turp's Web Site
• Older site still online
• Even older site still online

A cause not just for French speakers

• Read on English speakers for the independence of Québec and also English-speaking friends of Québec

See also

• See the list of books written by advocates of Quebec independence.