Humiliated

Back in the day, we were all told that Quebec felt "humiliated" by its exclusion from the Constitutional talks and their results the Act of 1982. However, comes in to view my favourite metaphor for making a point, the Martian observing something from 20000 feet. The Constitution Act includes section 33, the Notwithstanding clause, that leaves all of our rights except Voting to be subjected to striking down by any Federal or Provincial parliament even if ruled violated by their laws (e.g. 101) and Equalization which commits the Federal govt to doling out provincial welfare to the so called have not provinces (far and away the biggest beneficiary - Quebec). Further, no province is required to provide bilingualism (perfectly in line with Quebec's monolingual agenda) and Natural Resources are sacrosanct provincial treasures. If you read this document and did not know that Quebec was "excluded" and refused to sign it, you'd think Rene Levesque had written it himself.