The crucifix in the Quebec Legislature has become the focus of the upcoming September 4, 2012 elections in Quebec.   Comments at Huffington Post appear to be scandalized that French Canadians assert a right to preserve their own culture on their own soil.   This is no doubt because today, most people are fully ignorant of the federal Constitution of Canada.

The crucifix in the Quebec Legislature is not the issue, and is not the lawful subject of debate between French Canadians and foreign immigrants.  The proper issue is the Constitution of Canada, which established LEGAL FEDERALISM in 1867.



The purpose of LEGAL FEDERALISM is to guarantee self-government of the Founding Peoples of Canada on their own soil, each under their own provincial Legislature, WITHOUT external interference.

It is no business of foreign immigrants, indeed it is no business of any other Founding People who may be in the minority on Quebec soil, whether the French Canadians maintain a crucific in the Legislature, in the court rooms, or say prayers before legislative sessions.  These issues are the SOLE and EXCLUSIVE jurisdiction of the FRENCH CANADIANS for whose cultural and legal protection the Constitution was established in 1867.

Again, CANADA is the FEDERAL STATE, the Provinces are the exclusive law-making territories for the Founding Peoples of 1867 and their cultural heirs.  The Provinces are NOT miniature multicultural confederations in which foreigners may impose their demands and views on the French Canadians or on any other Founding Peoples of Canada.

Moreover, multiculturalism has NO LEGAL STATUS in Canada.  The federal constitution of 1867 establishes the structure of the country, which cannot be altered indirectly by pretending that so-called "minorities" have the right to be FEDERALLY represented in the Provincial Legislatures.  All measures to institutionalize multiculturalism in Canada are grossly illegal and violate LEGAL FEDERALISM and the lawful Constitution of 1867.  The fact that various political parties decide to impose a POLICY of multiculturalism, or when in office create Ministries for it, does not legalize it; the policy itself is illegal, being in conflict with LEGAL FEDERALISM, and therefore unconstitutional.

Kathleen Moore
FOUNDING CANADIANS 1867
www.1867confederation.com



UPDATE (11 June 2013): The following is my English translation of my own comments which I wrote in French in the Huffington Post online:

FC1867 REPLIES:

Mayor Tremblay is right. He is not a "xenophobe"; Mrs. Benhabib is not a French Canadian, she is a foreigner from another country. The Mayor is a French Canadian.

The federal Constitution protects the French Canadians, who have no other country elsewhere. The Mayor has both a legal and a constitutional right to pray and to use whatever symbols he judges appropriate for the maintenance of his culture on his own soil in his own cultural establishments and in his constitutional Legislatures.

Nobody can dictate cultural, legal, or religious policy to French Canadians on their own soil in Quebec. Not the foreign immigrants, and not the other Founding Peoples of Canada, including their English-speaking minority on Quebec soil.

This is the whole point of the Confederation of 1867 which established "for all time to come" (read the Debates of 1865), a legal regime to legally and constitutionally protect the right to exist of each Founding People of Canada according to their own values without interference from others, including the interference of strangers.

All discretion in these matters belongs to the French Canadians under section 92 which gives to THEM "exclusive" powers in this regard.

Again, CANADA is a FEDERAL STATE, the Provinces are the exclusive territories of the Founding Peoples who were majorities in each Province in 1867.

The Provinces are NOT multicultural "miniature confederations" in which foreigners may come to impose their demands and views upon the French Canadians, or upon any other Founding People of Canada in the other Provinces.

Moreover, in Canada, multiculturalism has NO LEGAL STATUS.

The structure of 1867 establishes the federal state of Canada. The so-called foreign "minorities" — who in reality are majorities from elsewhere, where they have their own countries — have no right to constitute themselves into "little sections" or "sub-provinces" in order to be represented FEDERALLY in the any particular Province or territory of Canada.

Neither a mere "multicultural" "policy" of a government, nor of a series of governments, nor of a political party, has force of law; nor can such a "policy" formulated in the form of a "law" have any validity in constitutional law, being squarely contrary to the true Constitution of 1867.

Kathleen Moore
FOUNDING CANADIANS 1867
www.1867confederation.com

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