“…The key feature of this trend, the fact that independence seemed to have been the project of one particular generation (the baby boomers, socialized during the Quiet Revolution and having experienced the megaconstitutional politics and referenda period of the 1980s and 1990s), is also well established (Mahéo and Bélanger, 2022). However, there have been few attempts to explain this outcome (for exceptions, see Changfoot and Cullen, 2011;Guay, 2017;Rocher, 2021;McDougall, 2023). Explanations citing the social, economic and cultural advancement of francophone Quebeckers and the high degree of decentralization of the Canadian federation (Guay, 2017) are not all that convincing, since these conditions broadly existed in 1995.…”