sentences:  Section 43 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms explicitly states that “"any alterations to boundaries between provinces" […] "only where so authorized by resolutions" […] "of the legislative assembly of each province to which the amendment applies"”
  
  No polling was done on the subject of partition prior to the 1995 referendum on secession, so it is difficult to guess at levels of support.However, during the years following the referendum, a number of polls were conducted, asking Canadians their views on the subject.Different questions sometimes elicited different responses, but certain patterns could nevertheless be distinguished