What if Quebec secession Vote had gone the other way?

[Emsworth]

If the people of Quebec did indeed vote to secede, then the National Assembly would have had to pass a Bill to allow the province to remove itself from Canada. However, such a Bill would have had to receive Royal Assent, which would have had to have been granted by the Lieutenant Governor, who might not necessarily have been willing to do so.

[Emsworth]

Firstly the Governor General and Leuitenant Governors were only really relevent in the 1800s and early 1900s. The elected officials command about the Governors now.

The last withholding of Royal Assent occurred in the 1930s. In 1936, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, John Bowen, withheld Assent on three bills, including one that would have restricted freedom of speech and was later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada and then by Her Majesty in Council. The Lieutenant Governor performed such an action to maintain order and to restrict the overreaching Government: I think that a modern Lieutenant Governor should be able to perform such a function as well.