The Mouvement Souveraineté-Association (MSA, English: Movement for Sovereignty-Association) was a separatist[1] movement formed on November 19, 1967 by René Lévesque to promote the concept of sovereignty-association between Quebec and the rest of Canada.
The MSA quickly began to move for a merger of all the independence movements in Quebec, which at the time were the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN) and the Ralliement national (RN).
The convention led to the publication of a groundwork document entitled Ce pays qu'on peut bâtir (This country that we can build) and the decision to create a new political party dedicated to Sovereignty-Association.
On October 26 Pierre Bourgault, leader of the RIN, dissolved the party and invited its members to join the PQ.
The short-lived MSA had served its purpose: sovereigntist forces in Quebec were united under a single party.