Comme son titre l'indique, ce mémoire traite de la légitimité du recours à l'action déclaratoire en droit international privé québécois. L'action déclaratoire, qu'elle soit introduite par déclaration ou par requête, a pour but de faire prononcer un tribunal sur l'existence ou l'inexistence de droits et obligations des parties. Bien que très ancienne, l'action déclaratoire n'était que peu utilisée au Québec jusqu'à l'avènement en 1966 de la requête en jugement déclaratoire dans notre Code de procédure civile. Aujourd'hui, cette action est largement utilisée en droit public dans le cadre du pouvoir de surveillance et de contrôle de la Cour supérieure, mais aussi dans le contexte du droit international privé comme une stratégie de défense, ou parfois d'attaque, dans le cadre d'un litige international. Fondamentalement, la finalité de cette action est d'offrir un mécanisme de protection judiciaire des droits d'un individu lorsque les autres recours ne sont pas disponibles ou accessibles, et de permettre un recours efficace hors du cadre traditionnel de la procédure ordinaire. Dès lors, il semble contestable d'utiliser en droit international privé l'action en jugement déclaratoire pour bloquer les procédures ordinaires autrement applicables. L'objet de cette étude est ainsi de démontrer que bien que le recours à l'action déclaratoire soit légitime en droit international privé, son utilisation actuelle à des fins stratégiques en présence, ou en prévision, d'une action ordinaire intentée dans une autre juridiction, paraît difficilement justifiable. Ainsi, la première partie de ce mémoire est consacrée à l'étude de la légitimité de l'action déclaratoire en droit international privé québécois, et la seconde partie s'intéresse aux effets d'une requête en jugement déclaratoire étrangère sur la procédure internationale au Québec. / As its title indicates, this thesis deals with the legitimacy of the recourse to the declaratory action in Quebec private international law. The purpose of the declaratory action, whether it is introduced by declaration or on motion, is to allow the court to rule on the existence or the inexistence of rights and obligations of the parties. Although very old, the declaratory action was seldom used in Quebec until the advent in 1966 of the declaratory judgment on motion in our Code of civil procedure. Today, this action is largely used in public law as a means by which the Superior Court exercise its jurisdiction, but also in the context of private international law as a strategy of defence, or sometimes of attack, in an international procedure. Basically, the aim of this action is to offer a legal mechanism of protection of an individual's rights when other recourses are not available or accessible, and to allow an effective recourse out of the traditional framework of the ordinary procedure. Consequently, it seems contestable to use the declaratory judgment on motion to block the differently applicable ordinary procedures in private international law. The object of this study is thus to show that although recourse to the declaratory action is legitimate in private international law, its strategic current use, in forecast or present ordinary proceedings brought in another jurisdiction, appears not easily justifiable. Thus, the first part of this thesis is devoted to the study of legitimacy of the declaratory action in Quebec private international law, and the second part deals with the effects of a foreign declaratory judgment on motion on the international procedure in Quebec.

Comme son titre l'indique, ce mémoire traite de la légitimité du recours à l'action déclaratoire en droit international privé québécois. L'action déclaratoire, qu'elle soit introduite par déclaration ou par requête, a pour but de faire prononcer un tribunal sur l'existence ou l'inexistence de droits et obligations des parties. Bien que très ancienne, l'action déclaratoire n'était que peu utilisée au Québec jusqu'à l'avènement en 1966 de la requête en jugement déclaratoire dans notre Code de procédure civile. Aujourd'hui, cette action est largement utilisée en droit public dans le cadre du pouvoir de surveillance et de contrôle de la Cour supérieure, mais aussi dans le contexte du droit international privé comme une stratégie de défense, ou parfois d'attaque, dans le cadre d'un litige international. Fondamentalement, la finalité de cette action est d'offrir un mécanisme de protection judiciaire des droits d'un individu lorsque les autres recours ne sont pas disponibles ou accessibles, et de permettre un recours efficace hors du cadre traditionnel de la procédure ordinaire. Dès lors, il semble contestable d'utiliser en droit international privé l'action en jugement déclaratoire pour bloquer les procédures ordinaires autrement applicables. L'objet de cette étude est ainsi de démontrer que bien que le recours à l'action déclaratoire soit légitime en droit international privé, son utilisation actuelle à des fins stratégiques en présence, ou en prévision, d'une action ordinaire intentée dans une autre juridiction, paraît difficilement justifiable. Ainsi, la première partie de ce mémoire est consacrée à l'étude de la légitimité de l'action déclaratoire en droit international privé québécois, et la seconde partie s'intéresse aux effets d'une requête en jugement déclaratoire étrangère sur la procédure internationale au Québec. / As its title indicates, this thesis deals with the legitimacy of the recourse to the declaratory action in Quebec private international law. The purpose of the declaratory action, whether it is introduced by declaration or on motion, is to allow the court to rule on the existence or the inexistence of rights and obligations of the parties. Although very old, the declaratory action was seldom used in Quebec until the advent in 1966 of the declaratory judgment on motion in our Code of civil procedure. Today, this action is largely used in public law as a means by which the Superior Court exercise its jurisdiction, but also in the context of private international law as a strategy of defence, or sometimes of attack, in an international procedure. Basically, the aim of this action is to offer a legal mechanism of protection of an individual's rights when other recourses are not available or accessible, and to allow an effective recourse out of the traditional framework of the ordinary procedure. Consequently, it seems contestable to use the declaratory judgment on motion to block the differently applicable ordinary procedures in private international law. The object of this study is thus to show that although recourse to the declaratory action is legitimate in private international law, its strategic current use, in forecast or present ordinary proceedings brought in another jurisdiction, appears not easily justifiable. Thus, the first part of this thesis is devoted to the study of legitimacy of the declaratory action in Quebec private international law, and the second part deals with the effects of a foreign declaratory judgment on motion on the international procedure in Quebec.

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Property ownership and occupational change are used to understand the social and economic organization of the Chinese community in Montreal. These data can be understood with a model of the lineage mode of production, situated within an ethnically defined dual economy. / Original immigration data show distinct patterns for Eastern Canada, and the independence of migration from Canadian legislation. The history of Chinese property ownership reveals encapsulated, long term tenure with transfers related to life cycle crises rather than market conditions. Chinese occupations are highly concentrated in service sector specialities which support domestic production units. The Chinese community is present throughout the Island of Montreal, while Chinatown contains some specialized institutions rather than being a ghetto. / Current demographic changes may jeopardize the future of secondary Chinese centers such as Montreal, in favor of larger centers such as Toronto and Vancouver.

The theoretical framework of this thesis bases itself essentially upon the respective works of Arendt Lijphart and Karl Deutsch, who have studied how societal cleavages and social communication interact with each other. The present thesis's main focus is the Quebec/English Canadian duality. It uses quantitative analysis to study and compare pan-Canadian reactions to the Allaire Report that was issued by the Quebec Liberal Party in early 1991. The purpose is to try and find out whether the Allaire Report and the proposals it contains have had a divisive effect on Canadian society, and if so, to what extent. The data consists of all issues of the following newspapers over a period of time of exactly one month, from the 22nd of January and the 22nd of February, 1991 : the Calgary Herald, the Chronicle Herald, the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun and the Winnipeg Free Press. The analysis bases itself upon (1) the space that each newspaper devotes to the issue (2) the tone and content of the headlines and (3) the frequencies of appearance of certain selected words. Quantitative analysis shows that the gap between Quebec and English Canada is becoming wider. Quebec clearly overestimates English Canada's fragile degree of homogeneity, while English Canada, by increasingly identifying itself to the so-called "rest of Canada", paradoxically acts as if Quebec were the glue that holds the whole country together.

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This study presents a series of empirical tests of two influential theoretical perspectives on the industrialization and modernization of polyethnic societies. On the one hand, the functionalist perspective predicts that cultural diversity and pluralism will decline, that group inequalities will decrease, and that communal conflict should become less likely over time. The communal competition perspective, on the other hand, predicts that cultural diversity and pluralism will not necessarily wither away, that group inequalities will not inevitably be reduced, and that communal conflict is a possibility at any point in time. / Hypotheses derived from these two perspectives are tested using survey data on French-English relations drawn from the 1970-71 Quebec Social Movements Study. Part of the thesis is an update and replication of the benchmark study of Roseborough and Breton (1971). / The study provides an examination of the structure of the belief system of a segmented society, and contributes to a systematic assessment of the relative utility of the two theoretical perspectives for an understanding of social change in plural societies.

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