Mulcair Grilled On Quebec Secession Days Before French Debate

Mulcair Grilled On Quebec Secession Days Before French Debate


The NDP's policy on Quebec secession is "in absolute defiance of the terms of the Constitution of Canada," said committee member Stephen Scott, a retired constitutional law professor.

OTTAWA — The man who launched a legal challenge to Quebec's law on
unilateral secession is posing some questions for Tom Mulcair that could
prove awkward for the NDP leader.

Keith Henderson wants to know
if an NDP government would continue to intervene in support of his court
challenge to Bill 99, a 1999 provincial law which asserts that
Quebecers alone have the right to democratically determine their own
future, without interference from the rest of Canada.

He's also
asking Mulcair to clarify if he believes aboriginal people and other
"loyal Canadians" could separate from Quebec if the province were to
secede from Canada and whether he believes an independent Quebec would
have to pay for its share of the federal debt and compensation for
federal assets in the province.