Editing Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (section)

==Role and presence==
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The lieutenant governor of [[Quebec]] is tasked with [[Lieutenant governor (Canada)#Constitutional|a number of governmental duties]]. Not among them, though, is delivering the [[Speech from the throne|Throne Speech]], which sets the lieutenant governor of Quebec apart from the other Canadian viceroys. (Instead, new [[National Assembly of Quebec|parliaments]] begin with the Opening Speech by the [[Premier of Quebec|premier]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/Assemblee/parl_gouv.html| last=National Assembly of Quebec| title=Parliament and Government| publisher=Éditeur officiel du Québec| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223055420/http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/Assemblee/parl_gouv.html |archive-date=February 23, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal| last=Wiseman| first=Nelson| title=In Search of a Quebec Constitution| journal=Revue québécoise de droit constitutionnel| volume=2| page=144| publisher=l'Association québécoise de droit constitutionnel| location=Quebec City| year=2009| url=http://www.aqdc.org/volumes/pdf/Wiseman.pdf| access-date=4 March 2011}}</ref>) The lieutenant governor is also expected to undertake [[Lieutenant governor (Canada)#Ceremonial|various ceremonial roles]]. For instance, upon installation, the lieutenant governor automatically becomes a Knight or Dame of Justice and the Vice-Prior in Quebec of the [[Venerable Order of Saint John|Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem]]. The lieutenant governor will present numerous other [[Orders, decorations, and medals of the Canadian provinces#Quebec|provincial honours and decorations]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.sja.ca/Canada/AboutUs/TheOrder/Pages/TheOrderofStJohninCanada.aspx| title=Canada Wide > About Us > The Order of St. John > The Order of St. John in Canada| publisher=St. John Ambulance Canada| access-date=2 June 2009}}</ref> and [[List of Canadian awards#Quebec|various awards that are named for and presented by the lieutenant governor]],<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.lieutenant-gouverneur.qc.ca/distinctions-honorifiques/programme-distinctions-en.html| last=Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec| title=Awards Program > Lieutenant Governor of Québec Awards Program| publisher=Éditeur officiel du Québec| access-date=6 July 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100429085456/http://www.lieutenant-gouverneur.qc.ca/distinctions-honorifiques/programme-distinctions-en.html| archive-date=29 April 2010}}</ref> which were reinstated in 2000 by Lieutenant Governor [[Lise Thibault]]. These honours are presented at official ceremonies, which count among hundreds of other engagements the lieutenant governor takes part in each year, either as host or guest of honour; in 2006, the lieutenant governor of Quebec undertook 400 engagements and 200 in 2007.<ref>{{Cite book|first=Eugene |last=Berezovsky |editor-last=Staff of Canadian Monarchist News |title=$1.52 per Canadian: The Cost of Canada's Constitutional Monarchy |year=2009 |edition=4 |page=3 |place=Toronto |publisher=Monarchist League of Canada |url=http://www.monarchist.ca/new/docs/cc2009.pdf |access-date=15 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707114038/http://www.monarchist.ca/new/docs/cc2009.pdf |archive-date= 7 July 2009 }}</ref>
[[File:Standard_of_the_Lieutenant_Governor_of_Québec.png|left|thumb|Standard of the lieutenant governor of Quebec (1952–present)]]
[[File:Flag of the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (1939–1952).svg|left|thumb|Standard of the lieutenant governor of Quebec (1939–1952)]]
[[File:Flag of the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1870-1939).svg|left|thumb|Standard of the lieutenant governor of Quebec (1870–1939)]]

At these events, the lieutenant governor's presence is marked by [[Flags of the lieutenant governors of Canada|the lieutenant governor's standard]], consisting of a blue field bearing the escutcheon of the [[Coat of arms of Quebec|Arms of {{ucfirst:{{Canadian monarch, current|genderp=~}}}} Majesty in Right of Quebec]] surmounted by a crown and set within a white disc; the Quebec viceregal flag is only one of two that are significantly different from all the others in Canada. Within Quebec, the lieutenant governor also follows only the sovereign in the [[Order of precedence in Quebec|province's order of precedence]], preceding even other members of the [[Monarchy of Canada#Canada's royal family and house|Canadian Royal Family]] and the [[Governor General of Canada|{{Canadian monarch, current|title=?}}'s federal representative]].
[[File:Cabinet du Lieutenant-gouverneur du Québec.jpg|thumb|right|The entrance of the offices of the lieutenant governor of Quebec, at 1050 des Parlementaires ([[Édifice André-Laurendeau]]), in [[Québec City]]]]

It has been argued by Jeremy Webber and Robert Andrew Young that, as the office is the core of authority in the province, the [[Quebec sovereignty movement|secession of Quebec from the Confederation]] would first require the abolition or transformation of the post of lieutenant governor of Quebec; such an amendment to the [[constitution of Canada]] could not be done without, according to Section 41 of the [[Constitution Act, 1982]], the approval of the [[Parliament of Canada|federal parliament]] and all other provincial legislatures in Canada.<ref>{{Cite book| last=Young| first=Andrew| title=The secession of Quebec and the future of Canada| publisher=McGill-Queen's Press| year=1998| location=Montreal| page=[https://archive.org/details/secessionofquebe0000youn_o5e7/page/215 215]| url=https://archive.org/details/secessionofquebe0000youn_o5e7| url-access=registration| isbn=978-0-7735-1530-7}}</ref> Others, such as J. Woehrling, however, have claimed that the legislative process towards Quebec's independence would not require any prior change to the viceregal post.<ref>{{Cite journal| last=Webber| first=Jeremy| title=The Legality of a Unilateral Declaration of Independence under Canadian Law| journal=The McGill Law Journal| volume=42| issue=2| pages=288| publisher=McGill University| location=Montreal| year=1997| url=http://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/documents/42.Webber.pdf| access-date=3 March 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706185042/http://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/documents/42.Webber.pdf| archive-date=6 July 2011}}</ref> Young also felt that the lieutenant governor could refuse Royal Assent to a bill that proposed to put an unclear question on sovereignty to referendum or was based on the results of a referendum that asked such a question.<ref>{{Harvnb| Young| 1998| p=457}}</ref>