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The partition of Quebec refers to the secession of regions of the province of Quebec, rather than to partitions in a strict political sense. It is usually discussed as a possibility in the event of Quebec secession from Canada. It was not a key issue in either the 1980 Referendum on Quebec Sovereignty or the 1995 Referendum on Quebec Sovereignty, but dominated the politics of national unity for about two years in the aftermath of the second referendum. Since then, the issue has occasionally resurfaced (for example in the 2007 provincial election). ==Partition proposals== Broadly speaking, partition proposals have tended to fall into three categories: ; 1. New borders based on a return to historical boundaries that predate the Confederation of 1867. : The logic here is that the separation of Quebec would represent an end to a constitutional deal in which Quebec was granted stewardship over certain lands which would revert to their former sovereign owners if Quebec were to leave Canada. : For example, in his 1991 book ''Who Gets Ungava?'', David Varty notes that the northern two-thirds of Quebec’s current territory had formerly been a part of the lands owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, and that it had been transferred to Quebec by means of two Acts of the Canadian Parliament, in 1898 and 1912 respectively. For this reason, if Quebec were to secede, the transfer would be legally void: :: Quebec was a province of Canada at the time that the Ungava territory was transferred to Quebec’s jurisdiction... Had Quebec been moving to become an independent country, the transfer of jurisdiction would not have taken place. There was an implied condition that the Province of Quebec was going to remain part of Canada. Any attempt to move to independence would constitute a breach of that implied condition attached to the transfer.〔Varty, David L. ''Who Gets Ungava?''. (Vancouver: Varty and Company Printers, 1991), p. 29.〕 ; 2. New borders that would create a ‘land bridge’ between New Brunswick and Ontario : This could be set up to prevent Canada’s remaining nine provinces from being split into two non-contiguous chunks of territory separated by about of foreign (Quebec) soil. The term sometimes used for this eventuality is "Pakistanisation",〔http://www.springerlink.com/content/l68400k7004236h0/ The Quebec question and the political geography of Canada〕 in reference to the way in which East Pakistan and West Pakistan were separated by hundreds of miles of foreign soil, following independence in 1947, with East Pakistan eventually separating and becoming its own country, Bangladesh, in 1971. The fear is that Canada would be unworkable if its four Atlantic provinces were to become an exclave. ; 3. New borders based on the preferences of local populations. : The logic of this approach is that, if Quebecers as a whole have the right to determine by majority vote whether to separate from Canada, then by extension the residents of regions within Quebec ought to be accorded the same right to separate from Quebec and to remain within Canada. The areas of Quebec that have been mentioned as likely to choose to remain in Canada include predominantly English-speaking municipalities on the western part of the Island of Montreal, Northern Quebec, the Eastern Townships and the Pontiac region in the Outaouais. In his 1992 book ''Canada Remapped: How the Partition of Quebec Will Reshape the Nation'', Scott Reid argues in favour of partition as determined by local populations and largely dismisses the first two lines of thought on partition listed above. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Partition of Quebec」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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