No major political party in Quebec supports partition, including federalist parties. Depending on the purpose of the proposed amendments, there are five separate amending procedures. Three procedures require the approval of provincial governments: the general procedure for amending[22] the unanimity procedure[23] and the procedure of the particular regime. [24] Under general procedure, the Constitution of Canada may be amended by the proclamation of the Governor General of Canada, in accordance with the resolutions of the Senate, the House of Commons and the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the provinces whose population represents at least 50% of the population of all provinces. [25] The general procedure applies to any changes to the powers of the Senate and the method of selecting senators, the Supreme Court[26], the adhesion of parts of territorial territories to existing provinces, and the creation of new provinces. The unanimity procedure is necessary to amend certain regulations relating to the Queen`s Office, the Governor General or Lieutenant Governors, the proportion of members in the House of Commons in each region, the use of English or French in the federal Parliament, and the composition of the Supreme Court of Canada. In accordance with the Special Regime Procedure, changes to provincial boundaries or the use of English or French within a province require the agreement of the provinces concerned. Finally, the last two procedures concern unilateral changes by the Bundestag [27] and the provincial parliaments. [28] In December 1976, an organization called the Preparatory Committee for an Eleventh Province was established in Montreal. This group contained some people who, along with Shaw, believed that the threat of a division in which parts of Quebec would remain within Canada would weaken support for separation. [20] The Parti Québécois is a nationalist party founded in Quebec in 1968.

The party was elected for its first term in 1976 and held two referendums on Quebec sovereignty: one in 1980 and the other in 1995. For more information, see www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/parti-quebecois (available June 20, 2019). Quebec sovereignists and federalist Quebec nationalists are generally opposed to partition. The division is mainly supported by the argument of Quebec`s right to territorial (territorial) integrity. A number of arguments have been put forward to defend this position. In Canadian Executive Federalism (Brock 2003; Savoy 2003; Watt 2008; 2011 Benz; Laforest and Montigny 2013), federal, provincial and territorial cabinets are responsible for intergovernmental relations, so intergovernmental agreements are negotiated and concluded directly by executive MPs, who are also members of the majority party in Parliament.