Si on regarde l'histoire des relations entre le Québec, les provinces canadiennes et le gouvernement fédéral, l'histoire récente, peut-être des 10 ou 12 dernières années, on s'aperçoit qu'un accord mutuel était la pratique courante.
If we look back at the recent past, the last 10 to 12 years of relations between Quebec, Canadian provinces and the federal government, we see that things were normally done by mutual consent, and that mutual consent could be, for example, the agreement of the federal government and seven provinces constituting 50 per cent of the population.