“…The “Canada school” also features the normative position that Canada's constitution, institutions and politics should reflect a reality (Schertzer and Taylor Woods, 2011) understood either as objective (that is, the idea that there are, from a sociological perspective, different nations in Canada) or subjective (that is, the notion that Canadian citizens identify with different nations with homelands on Canadian territory). This concept of multinationalism made its way into comparative politics from Canada, as scholars studied “multinational democracies/countries/states” (Gagnon and Tully, 2001; Gagnon et al, 2003; Lluch, 2014a, 2014b; Lecours et al, 2021; Boucher and Noël, 2021; Basta, 2021) and “multinational federations/federalism” (Burgess and Pinder, 2007; Seymour and Gagnon, 2012) 9 beyond advanced industrialized liberal democracies.…”