Quebec's Plan to Cut Ties With the Crown Meets a Constitutional Question
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says he wants to defund the office of the lieutenant-governor and pass a law to sever Quebec's ties to the Crown. That is the political half of the plan. The other half is the one CBC puts at the centre: whether a phaseout of the monarchy is constitutionally feasible in the province at all. A legislature can pass a law about many things; whether this is one of them is the crux.
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Defunding the lieutenant-governor's office and severing ties to the Crown are two separate jobs. The first is a budget line. The second is the one that runs into the constitutional question.
The cheap half is also the visible half, which is a good reason to lead with it. Cutting the office's funding looks like a rupture and costs nothing to announce.