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QUEBEC — Ottawa’s decision to lend its support to a legal challenge of the 50-per-cent-plus-one-vote majority rule to decide a Quebec sovereignty referendum is “underhanded and a direct attack” on Quebec, the Parti Québécois intergovernmental affairs minister says.Alexandre Cloutier held a rare morning news conference on Sunday to demand that Ottawa reverse its course.Cloutier only learned Friday night that the federal government had added its support on Wednesday, without fanfare, to a challenge filed in Quebec Superior Court in 2002 by Keith Henderson.Henderson, former leader of the defunct Equality Party, is asking the court to declare Bill 99 unconstitutional.“It is also an underhanded attack the same day that in the Throne Speech, the recognition of the Quebec nation was reiterated,” Cloutier told reporters. “By the night, they decided to proceed on the sly without even informing the Quebec government.”In joining the Henderson case, the attorney general of Canada said: “Secession, to be lawful, would require a constitutional amendment.”Bill 99, an act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Quebec People and the Quebec State, was adopted in 2000 in response to Ottawa’s Clarity Act, affirming the House of Commons had the right to decide whether a Quebec referendum question was clear and whether the outcome represented a clear majority.Cloutier said Quebec government lawyers in his department and the provincial justice department were working through the weekend on their response.Cloutier said the three opposition parties represented in the Quebec National Assembly — the Quebec Liberals, Coalition Avenir Québec and Québec solidaire — support the PQ position that a referendum approved by 50-per-cent-plus-one vote would be valid.Brent Tyler, the Montreal lawyer who represents Henderson in his Bill 99 challenge, said in a telephone interview he is not surprised that all parties in the assembly oppose the challenge, saying Quebec parties use the “knife to the throat” to extract concessions from the rest of Canada.If his challenge succeeds, it will show “the knife is made of rubber,” Tyler said.On Sunday, New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair said in Trois-Rivières his party agrees with the 50-per-cent-plus-one rule.“There is no discussion about that,” Mulcair said in a RDI interview.Mulcair, then a member of the Quebec Liberal caucus, voted with his party in opposition to Bill 99 when it was adopted Dec. 7, 2000.Then-opposition Liberal leader Jean Charest said his party agreed it was up to the National Assembly to decide the referendum question and that it would be decided by an “absolute majority,[url=http://www.saclancelvente.fr]sac lancel[/url],” 50 per cent plus one.But the Liberals voted against Bill 99 then, with Charest suggesting the PQ government “hopes the dispositions of the law will eventually be declared unconstitutional by the courts,” saying the PQ wanted such an outcome “to try to stir up nationalist fervour.”Current Liberal leader Philippe Couillard recalled Charest’s warning then and said that while he agrees that 50 per cent plus one would be a clear majority, he would also want the question to be clear, suggesting if Quebec does have a third referendum, it should follow the example of Scotland, holding a referendum next year on the question, “Should Scotland become an independent country? That’s it. Yes or no.”Asked why, with no referendum on the horizon, the federal government would want to do this now, Cloutier said: “Well, obviously, they want to make sure that we are never going to get our country.”By setting rules to make it difficult for Quebec to leave Canada, he suggested, the federal government is hoping “Quebecers will love to be part of Canada.”“I mean, that’s not the way it works. But that seems like that’s the path they decided to take.”kdougherty@montrealgazette.comTwitter: doughertykr
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