Marois says there is no plan to renounce the controversial project dubbed "sovereigntist governance." ❋ Unknown (2011)
There are many other players that could be "broadly defined as sovereigntist" - latest estimates indicate 180 ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mr Mas has a forthright attitude to wresting powers from Madrid without demanding full independence, making him a "sovereigntist" in the local jargon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By giving the sovereignty movement a voice, by dealing them in, as it were, at the table, by making them a party of the system, Canada has found a way to give the sovereigntist movement a legitimate voice in the House of Commons, while at the same time robbing the sovereignty movement of much of its anti-establishment strength. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Talking about Quebec independence in in 2009 would be met by bemused stares (or perhaps mid-90s nostalgia) by even the most ardent sovereigntist. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Writing in the Conservative National Post, commentator Kevin Libin said: "I have yet to see a satisfying explanation for what sparked that Quebec stampede to the NDP, but my best guess is that it was one of those generational swings: young people in that province voting in their first federal election this week were babies when the Bloc was created and probably grew up watching with bafflement and amusement their parents' sovereigntist idealism." ❋ Unknown (2011)
Chantal Hebert wrote a good book recently about the evolution of Quebec politics beyond the old federalist/sovereigntist categories. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Quebecois does also have more sovereigntist connotations. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Among international law academics, there is far less division — there is not much of a realist wing, a power wing, for international law academics to contend with inside the legal academy itself, nor is there much of an “alternative” sovereigntist position based in democratic sovereignty idealism — although in each case, realism and idealism, more than there used to be. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The American conservative or, more precisely, democratic sovereigntist, complaint about human rights has traditionally been that it is a tool by which self-defined political progressives pursue agendas that they cannot manage to achieve through domestic democratic mechanisms. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I, for one, will happily accept the label sovereigntist. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It certainly would have been a spectacle to behold, watching the Liberals try to run a federalist government with the NDP riding their coattails and asking them to spend money on every special interest group from Prince George to Fredericton, and the sovereigntist Bloc Quebecois pointing their fingers at the coalition manifesto that granted them equal partnership with Canada. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The former NDP leader, who helped negotiate Monday's deal between the New Democrats and the Liberals with the support of the Bloc Québécois, said Harper also lied when he said the three opposition leaders refused to sign their agreement in front of a Canadian flag because Gilles Duceppe, a Quebec sovereigntist, objected. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Jack Layton reverted to type yesterday in Quebec City, picking up his guitar, strumming the sovereigntist anthem Gens du Pays and promising to protect the arts by mandating that an NDP government will ensure all prime-time television carried by Canadian networks is made in Canada. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Harper also lied when he said the three opposition leaders refused to sign their agreement in front of a Canadian flag because Gilles Duceppe, a Quebec sovereigntist, objected. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But then here's 1984, and Mulroney gets elected with a huge block of soft sovereigntist from Quebec, and suddenly we're obliged by all the wind he's blown into their sails to slice open the Constituion and start operating. ❋ Unknown (2005)
One more instance of the Conservatives pandering to a sovereigntist bloc, ignoring the people in the West who feel they put them in office and are getting short shrift -- exactly why they bolted to the Reform movment in the first place in the early 90s. ❋ Unknown (2005)
