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Introduction -- Kim Thuy, écrivaine et juriste -- Acte I -- La formation du juriste -- Pourquoi aller en droit ? -- Esther Bégin, journaliste et juriste -- La formation des juristes : l'exemple du Québec -- Des tensions au sein même de la formation juridique -- Une formation en quête d'équilibre ? -- Acte II -- Une profession kaléidoscopique -- Pascal Paradis, avocat et membre fondateur d'Avocats sans frontières-Québec -- Le professeur de droit -- Frédéric Bérard, avocat et chargé de cours -- Les avocats -- Joan Monahan, avocate au ministère des Finances du Canada -- Le notaire

El movimiento secesionista de Quebec, uno de los más antiguos de ese tipo en un país democrático, continúa suscitando interés en otras partes del mundo. Pero este movimiento actualmente se enfrenta importantes desafíos. El objetivo principal de este artículo es de proporcionar a sus lectores una visión general de algunos de los principales obstáculos políticos y legales que afronta en la actualidad el movimiento independentista de Quebec. El primero obstáculo se debe poner en relación con el marco legal aplicable al intento de secesión provincial desde la decisión de 1998, del Tribunal Supremo de Canadá en la Reference re Secession of Quebec. El segundo se encuentra en el impacto potencial del proceso del reciente referéndum en Escocia sobre la estrategia del movimiento secesionista de Quebec. El tercero se creó como consecuencia de la división interna de este movimiento. Por último, se estudia una nueva pretendida base legal para reivindicar la secesión, es decir, el denominado «derecho a decidir», en tanto distinto del derecho a la auto-determinación externa.Quebec's secessionist movement is one of the oldest of the sort in any democratic country. This paper seeks to provide an overview of some of the main political and legal hurdles currently faced by the Quebec independence movement. First it revisits the domestic legal framework applicable to a provincial secession attempt since the seminal 1998 opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re Secession of Quebec, which was a major game changer in the debate over Quebec's potential secession. Then it examines the potential impact of recent political events, as the Scotland's recent referendum process, on the strategy of the Quebec secessionist movement. And last it looks at an alleged new legal foundation for secession, i.e. a so-called "right to decide" distinct from the right to external self-determination.

The Patriation Reference and Quebec Veto Reference revealed deep disagreements as to the nature of Canadian federalism and the normative underpinnings, if any, of the federal principle. This paper identifies two dominant conceptions of federalism in these early 1980s references, a positivist-voluntarist one and generic-historicist one, which have both informed in one way or another the case law since. After examining the normative ideas recently associated with federalism by Supreme Court justices, the paper shows that members of the Court remain divided not only as to the meaning of such ideas and the normative consequences flowing from the m, but also as to the relevance and justiciability of the federal principle itself. It argues that although such an outcome is probably inevitable in a divided society such as Canada, a common syntax of federalism, revolving around core values underlying the federal principle, could help buttress the quality of reasons invoked in support of rulings made about the formal division of powers. If, incidentally, such an approach could help frame political debates so that they are more sensitive to the existence of diverse conceptions of federalism, and more prone to reconciling the m when possible, so much the better.