Étapisme (French for gradualism) is the term for a strategy for independence dominant in the Parti Québécois since 1974. It is associated with the figure...

supranational union, or "sovereignty-association", and the question of the "étapisme" approach) and language protection (see Charter of the French Language)...

gradualists, similar divide in the Scottish National Party Pur et dur and Étapisme, similar divide in the Quebec sovereignty movement Reformist socialism...