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Originally Posted by Febobo
The NAFTA or any other agreements made with Canada are also valid for Québéc in any sense. Even if the pretty unrealistic case of independance, Québéc would not be isolated and would not have to replace the last 200 years of Canadian diplomacy, they'de take over a large part of its international duties.
As for the initial question by Matt, Mad Michael already answered anything. nations and states do not need to be the same, in fact very often they differ. There are several nations within a state (like in Belgium), or a nation that transcendes state frontiers (like the Basques between France and Spain).
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Actually this is incorrect. Were Quebec to become an independant nation our treaties with Canada would only apply to Canada. Since Quebec would no longer be part of Canada none of them would apply to Quebec. More importantly it would give us a reason to re-evaluate the whole notion of NAFTA to begin with, it has been an abysmal failure.