called the 11th province panel, the discussion was organized by the canadian party of quebec. the party was created before the 2022 provincial election in response to anger in the anglophone community over bill 96, the law that amended the charter of the french language.
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this isn’t the first time english communities have flirted with a partition movement that would allow them to remain canadian in the event of a referendum on separation. in the aftermath of the 1995 referendum, when sovereignist forces narrowly lost the vote, dozens of municipal councils in the province, including many in the western part of montreal, passed resolutions expressing their will to stay in canada.
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