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Act Respecting the Future of Quebec
The Act Respecting the Future of Quebec (also known as "Bill 1" or the "Sovereignty Bill") was a bill proposed to the Quebec National Assembly by Premier Jacques Parizeau and his Parti Québécois government in 1995. It proposed to give the National Assembly the power to declare Quebec "sovereign", with the "exclusive power to pass all its laws, levy all its taxes and conclude all its treaties".〔(Act Respecting the Future of Quebec (Bill), art. 1–2. )〕 It received a first reading in the National Assembly〔(National Assembly of Quebec, ''travaux parlementaires,'' book 70 (7 September 1995) p.4708 )〕 but the final version of the bill was never voted on following the defeat of the sovereignty option in the 1995 Quebec referendum. Had it become law, it would have served as the legal basis for the Quebec government to declare Quebec a sovereign country.
==Preamble==
The bill contained a 1,586-word preamble, evoking the history of Quebec and the right of the Quebec people to choose its destiny. It also contained considerable poetic phrases, such as "We know the winter in our souls. We know its blustery days, its solitude, its false eternity and its apparent deaths." It concluded with the phrase, "We, the people of Québec, through our National Assembly, proclaim: Québec is a sovereign country."〔(Act Respecting the Future of Quebec, preamble )〕
The original version of the bill had a blank page as its preamble. Jacques Parizeau explained it this way: ''"()he preamble... has intentionally been left unwritten. This preamble will eventually become the Declaration of Sovereignty of Quebec. It must describe who we are as a people and who we wish to become. As such, it must be a vivid reflection of our values and our hopes, our traditions and our ambitions. This blank page calls out to all of us. We must devise it together, participate and contribute the best of ourselves."''〔(Jacques Parizeau, "A message from the Prime Minister" (20 August 1995) )〕
In the end, the preamble was written by several prominent pro-sovereignty Quebec writers and poets, including famous Quebec singer Gilles Vigneault, author-playwright Marie Laberge, sociologist Fernand Dumont and constitutional experts Andree Lajoie and Henri Brun.〔"'We, the people of Quebec, declare . . .'". ''The Toronto Star'' (7 September 1995)〕
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