This part is introduced by a short text of Bernard Chenot ( From Politics to Economics) treating of the economic organization of the State.

The second part (25 pages), entitled A Country that Is 'Feasible', is made of two chapters describing the 'Option for Quebec' in more details. He invites his readers to reject Canadian federalism entirely and proposes a sovereign Quebec ('complete liberty in Quebec') that would be associated to the rest of Canada as part of a new Canadian Union modelled on the precedents of the European Economic Community, Scandinavia or Benelux. Chapter VI ( The Way of the Future) presents the alternative of RenГ© LГ©vesque to what he describes as the blind alley of maintaining or adapting the political status quo. In chapter V ( The Blind Alley), LГ©vesque remarks that the vital minimum for Quebec is a 'frightening maximum, completely unacceptable' for English Canada which needs the central State of Canada 'for its own security and progress as much as we need our own State of Quebec'. In chapter IV ( The Basic Minimums), LГ©vesque points out the limitations of the centenary Canadian federal framework (1867вЂ“1967) if Quebec is to enjoy the basic amount of internal autonomy it needs to continue on the way of progress as it has been doing since 1960. Chapter III ( The Quiet Revolution) discuses the catch up and progress accomplished by the Quebec nation since the Quiet Revolution. Chapter II ( The Acceleration of History) discuses the challenge that modernity poses to the preservation of the collective personality of the Quebec people and suggests that the only way to dissipate the danger of the assimilation of its francophone majority is 'to face up to this trying and thoughtless age and make it accept us as we are'. Chapter I ( 'Belonging') treats of the collective personality of Quebecers. The first part (17 pages), is entitled A Country That Must be Made and contains six small chapters advancing the reasons for Quebecers to make the double choice of independence for Quebec and a new economic union with Canada. The book ends with an epilogue by Quebec documentary film director Pierre Perrault. The substance of the essay consists of three parts and a short conclusion. The foreword is followed by a preface by historian Jean Blain. The essay opens with a foreword entitled The Moment of Choice signed by Roch Banville, Rosaire Beaule, GГ©rard BГ©langer, Jean-Roch Boivin, Marc BriГЁre, Pothier Ferland, Maurice Jobin, RenГ© LГ©vesque, Monique Marchand, Guy Pelletier and RГ©ginald Savoie. RenГ© LГ©vesque was elected leader of this new party on October 14, 1968. After a merger with the Ralliement national led by Gilles GrГ©goire, the Sovereignty-Association Movement founded a new provincial political party, the Parti QuГ©bГ©cois, which placed RenГ© LГ©vesque's Sovereignty-Association idea at the heart of its program.

On November 18 and 19 1967, some 400 militants participated to the founding meeting of the Sovereignty-Association Movement, which was held at the Couvent Saint-Albert-le-Grand on Chemin de la CГґte-Sainte-Catherine in Montreal. He cited as his reason for leaving the fact that his party had refused to even debate his proposal regarding the constitutional future of Quebec.

On October 14, 1967, RenГ© LГ©vesque left the Congress of the Quebec Liberal Federation and announced in a press conference held at Clarendon Hotel that he had quit the Liberal Party of Quebec and was from now on to sit as an independent member in the Parliament of Quebec. That text was to form the first part of An Option for Quebec, published in its French edition a few months later, on January 6, 1968. The text he wrote and which was the basis of his speech that day was entitled Un pays qu'il faut faire ('A Country That Must be Made'). On September 18, 1967, RenГ© LГ©vesque proposed to the members of the Laurier riding's Liberal Association, the adoption of a resolution he wished to present to the Congress of the Quebec Liberal Federation planned for October 1967.

RenГ© lГ©vesque a dГ©fendu