The CAQ is not looking to adopt a provincial constitution written 'by the people, for the people,' but to serve its own partisan purposes

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Last week, Quebec Premier François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government tabled Bill 1, which aims to provide the province with a constitution. Yet the text of the document and the process that led to it are so controversial that they constitute a masterclass in how not to write a constitution.

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To be clear, every province has a constitution, composed of relevant clauses from the Constitution acts of 1867 and 1982, along with provincial legislation, constitutional customs and jurisprudence. Any province could decide to assemble those scattered parts and group them in a single act, as