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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Quebec |
 | | Quebec was the last province to abolish its Legislative Council. | | | The Act allowed Quebec to maintain the French civil law as its judicial system and sanctioned the freedom of religious choice, allowing the Roman Catholic Church to remain. | | | On October 30, 1995, in a second referendum the vote for Quebec independence was rejected by a slim majority (50.6% NO to 49.4% YES). |
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| | Aboriginal Peoples and the 1995 Quebec Referendum: A Survey of the Issues (BP412e) |
| | The injunction was later overturned by the Quebec Court of Appeal. | | | Before an appeal to the Supreme Court was heard, the federal and Quebec governments, the Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec), and the Northern Quebec Inuit Association reached an out-of-court settlement. | | | Cree voters were asked: "Do you consent, as a people, that the Government of Quebec separate the James Bay Crees and Cree traditional territory from Canada in the event of a Yes vote in the Quebec referendum?" The Crees voted 96.3% to stay with Canada. |
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| | René Lévesque |
| | He lost the 1970 election and 1973 election and won the 1976 election and 1981 election and resigned in 1985. | | | Following a split within his party over much emphasis to put on sovereignty in next election René Lévesque resigned as leader the Parti Québécois on June 20 1985 and on October 3 he resigned as premier of Québec. | | | Lévesque attended a college in Gaspé and at Saint-Charles-Garnier college Quebec City. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Rene_Levesque
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Pierre Trudeau |
| | The "three wise men" ran for the Liberals and were elected in 1965 with Trudeau being appointed two years later to Pearson's cabinet as minister of justice. | | | Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader; however, before a leadership convention could be held Clark's government was defeated in the Canadian House of Commons by a Motion of No Confidence and the party persuaded Trudeau to stay on as leader and fight the election. | | | Pierre Elliott Trudeau died on September 28, 2000, and is buried in the Trudeau family crypt, St-Remi-de-Napierville Cemetery, Saint-Remi, Quebec. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/P/PI/PIE/Pierre_Trudeau
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| | Chemistry - Quebec general election, 1976 |
| | The Quebec general election of 1976 was held on November 15, 1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. | | | The Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa. | | | However he later made a remarkable comeback in the 1985 general election. |
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http://www.chemistrydaily.com/chemistry/1976_Quebec_election
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| | Dialogue Canada - Practical Guide to 1995 Referendum |
| | Imitating their great successes during the constitutional referendum and the Quebec election, the PQ will use leaked documents and personal attacks to besmirch the reputations of Francophone defenders of federalism. | | | Quebec's Minister of International Affairs originally tried to convince his troops that the province would automatically adhere to all of Canada's treaties as a `successor' state. | | | Closely related to the referendum law is the Quebec electoral law. |
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| | MJH |
| | The province of Quebec, long dissatisfied with its role in the larger Canadian polity, had narrowly defeated a proposal to separate from Canada. | | | After all, “roughly half of Quebecers” as well as a “clear majority of French-speaking voters” had voted in favor of separation. | | | Still, Webster's nuanced view of the referendum's implications, delivered briefly but decisively, competently articulates the uncertain mood in the province. |
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| | The Militant - 3/2/98 -- Canadian Supreme Court Debate Is Part Of Attack On Quebecois Rights |
| | This is about helping [people] understand that you need respect for the rule of law to exercise free democratic will." A unilateral Quebecois declaration, she said, "leads us into an abyss where nobody knows anything about the rules that apply. | | | The June 1997 federal election results further registered the regional fracturing of bourgeois political forces. | | | TORONTO - About 1000 people demonstrated in Ottawa February 16 in favor of Quebec's right to self-determination on the opening day of a week-long federal Supreme Court hearing. |
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| | WebQuest: The Quebec Referendum |
| | Statement by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, the Honourable Anne McLellan in Response to the Ruling of the Supreme Court | | | Context: News-in-depth: The Supreme Court Reference on Quebec, August 20, 1998 | | | Current public opinion in the rest of Canada who support a "Yes" vote for Quebec separation compiled by Province and Territory. |
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Parti libéral du Québec |
| | This mirrored the situation in Ottawa, where the arrival of Wilfrid Laurier in the 1896 federal election marked the beginning of Liberal dominance at the federal level. | | | When Bourassa returned as Premier in the 1980s, he successfully persuaded the federal Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney to recognize Quebec as a distinct society, and sought greater powers for the province. | | | Some Liberals, including senior Cabinet minister René Lévesque, left the Liberals to join the sovereignty movement, participating in the founding of the Parti Quebecois under Levesque's leadership. |
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| | Brief History |
| | Placed full authority of Quebec in the hands of the governor and an appointed Council. | | | After a series of bombings centered in English Montreal, two terrorist cells of the FLQ kidnapped a British diplomat (trade commissioner James Cross) and a Quebec cabinet minister (Pierre Laporte) who was eventually murdered. | | | Official protection to the Catholic Church and Quebec Civil Law system |
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| | Articles - Quebec general election, 1981 |
| | The Quebec general election of 1981 was held on April 13, 1981, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. | | | The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Claude Ryan. | | | The PQ won re-election despite having lost the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty-association, the party's proposal for political independence for Quebec in an economic union with the rest of Canada. |
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http://www.techize.com/articles/Quebec_general_election,_1981
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| | Parti Québécois |
| | In the 1976 provincial election the Québécois was elected to form the government Quebec with René Lévesque as its leader. | | | Parizeau resigned the next day he planned beforehand in case of a | | | Bouchard resigned in 2001 and years later his successor Bernard Landry former Finance minister lost the 2003 Quebec election to Jean Charest 's Quebec Liberal Party. |
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| | 1980 Quebec referendum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This led to a split in the Parti Québécois which led to Lévesque's resignation from politics in 1985 and eventually paved the way for Jacques Parizeau and the second sovereignty referendum of 1995. | | | However, for about 15 years, the ball was in the federalist court. | | | Despite the referendum loss, the PQ government was re-elected in the 1981 provincial election. |
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| | MUHC - Donat J. Taddeo Biography |
| | He was elected Commissioner of the Montreal Catholic School Commission from 1973 to 1980. | | | Shortly after his return to Concordia University, the Board of Governors appointed Dr. Taddeo under exceptional circumstances as Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University; a position he held from 1993 to 1997. | | | He served as Vice-President of the National Congress of Italian Canadians, Quebec Region in 1983-84, and as the organization's President from 1984-85. |
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| | CBC News Indepth: Claude Ryan |
| | In the 1989 cabinet he served as minister of education and minister of higher education and science, with responsibility for the administration of the French-language charter. | | | The Quebec Liberals were again defeated by the Parti Québécois a year later in the 1981 election. | | | After the Liberals won the Quebec election in 1985, Bourassa appointed Ryan to the provincial education portfolio. |
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| | CANADA: A crisis rooted in Quebec |
| | It is the party that ushered in the so-called Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, the modernisation of social and political institutions of capitalist rule that had become necessary to combat rising Quebec nationalism. | | | In an article in the May 23, 2005 Globe and Mail, Ral Sguin describes one side of a decades-long effort by the federal government to destroy the Quebec independence movement. | | | The Liberal Party was decisively weakened in 1982 when the Trudeau government imposed a new Canadian constitution, against vehement opposition from the Quebec government of the time. |
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| | Nelson - History - Quiz |
| | What did the premiers of Manitoba and New Brunswick argue after the federal government and eight provinces ratified the Meech Lake Accord? | | | In what year did the Parti Québécois win the provincial election for the first time? | | | The referendum was defeated by a 70-30 margin. |
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| | ANNIVERSARY OF 1980 QUEBEC REFERENDUM SHOULD BE CAUSE FOR REFLECTION ON CANADA’S FUTURE. |
| | His experiences at that time were a principal cause of his decision to stand for federal elected office in 1997. | | | As we reflect on the 1980 referendum, it is important to note that there were no federal parties that favoured a smaller federal government and greater powers and responsibilities to be accorded to the provinces. | | | It was only through the influence of the Reform Party, predecessor to the Conservative Party that greater powers and responsibilities to all provinces first became part of the political policy landscape at the time of the 1995 Quebec referendum. |
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| | NOTES ON THE LAY VOCATION |
| | From 1985 to 1994 he held a variety of major ministries in the Bourassa government. | | | Party of Quebec and led the “No” forces to victory in the 1980 Quebec Referendum. |
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| | cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide |
| | drafted a law for a new referendum and then held public hearings on this draft law | | | The debate last for a minimum of 35 hours, and then the Bill was voted on became an Act. | | | They are: the Parti Québécois, whose leader is Premier Jacques Parizeau, the federal Bloc Québécois (whose leader is Lucien Bouchard) and another party in the Quebec |
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| | CNN - Quebec independence votes - Oct. 29, 1995 |
| | In response, Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who laid low through most of the campaign, suddenly raised his profile. | | | The federal government, for its part, could try to challenge the vote in court, or call a second referendum, either Canada-wide or in Quebec. | | | CNN - Quebec independence votes - Oct. 29, 1995 |
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| | She began her political involvement as a volunteer in a federal election campaign. | | | Subsequently, from 1986 to 1990, she was policy advisor to various Quebec Ministers responsible for Cultural Communities and Immigration. | | | After working on the 1980 Quebec Referendum she assumed the position of provincial coordinator for the Ethnic Groups Commission for the Quebec Liberal Party and regional co-ordinator for the ridings in the western part of Montreal. |
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| | Constructing the Quebec Referendum. French and English Media Voices by Marcel Martel |
| | To do so, she has selected a series of political events such as the release of the PQ document on sovereignty, the Liberal document on renewed federalism, and the last week of the referendum campaign, as well as the day after the referendum. | | | The book has a solid introduction in which the author states the scope of her study and concludes with a good summary of the main points and a brief analysis of the 1995 referendum. | | | This book is interesting because of the issue of media power. |
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http://www.utpjournals.com/product/utq/701/referendum172.html
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