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Adélard Godbout - - Quebec History - Histoire du Québec The notion of the premier of the province of Quebec waxing the boots of soldiers was appalling, as was demeaning in the extreme the idea that the Premier of Quebec had “a leader” and that the leader was in Ottawa... Elections in Quebec are not won with this kind of sentiments. Quebec was the last province to do so in Canada and it was evidently long overdue. www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/bios/godbout.htm   (2767 words)

Quebec's constitutional veto: the legal and historical context (BP-295E) Quebec provincial governments, particularly in the post-war period, have added to this interpretation the argument that Quebec, the only political entity in Canada with a majority francophone population, is the "cornerstone" of French Canada. Even though Quebec continued to subscribe to the more general theory that the consent of all provinces was required for patriation and a new amending formula, successive Quebec governments moved steadily towards the formula position that Quebec had a special status within Confederation, including a unique claim on a constitutional veto. The fact that Quebec was able to block important attempts to change the Constitution (as in 1965 when Premier Lesage vetoed the Fulton-Favreau amending formula, and in 1971 when Premier Bourassa refused to agree to the Victoria Charter) was subsequently interpreted within Quebec as a confirmation of the existence of that province’s constitutional veto. dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca /Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/bp295-e.htm   (3351 words)

Civilization.ca - History of the Vote - Chronicle, A spotlight on 1920-1997 As was the case before 1920, the new law provided for elections to be conducted on the basis of lists of eligible electors; in urban areas, the lists to be used were provincial lists compiled previously, but in rural areas, an enumeration would be conducted. The postcards were dropped after this election, and from the 1940 election until 1982 (when postcards were reintroduced), voters were sent a copy of the list showing the name, address, and occupation of all voters in the relevant poll. A significant innovation of the 1920 elections act was the provision for voting in advance of election day by specified groups of voters: commercial travellers, railwaymen, and sailors could vote during the three days (excluding Sundays) preceding an election. www.civilization.ca /hist/elections/el_036_e.html   (1847 words)

Quebec Four of these-Laval, the University of Montreal, the University of Sherbrooke (1954), and the University of Quebec (1968)-use French, and three-McGill University and Concordia University (1974), in Montreal, and Bishop's University (1843), in Lennoxville-use English. Quebec is represented in the Canadian Parliament by 24 senators, appointed by the Canadian governor-general in council, and by 75 members of the House of Commons, popularly elected to terms of up to five years. In the elections of 1970 and 1973 the Liberals under Robert Bourassa defeated the Union Nationale and the PQ largely by opposing separatism. www.angelfire.com /country/t2canada/provinces/Quebec.htm   (3015 words)

CANADA, QUEBEC, AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The Quebec government's position seemed to suggest that not only should Quebec have a veto as a participant in the original pact, but also, a fortiori, as representative of French Canada in Confederation, and as such, it anticipated the 'two-nations' theory which dominated a later period of Quebec and Canadian political and constitutional history. Quebec and six other provinces joined together to call for the repeal of the British North America Act (No. 2), 1949 which had granted a range of amendment powers to the federal government, and this was duly ignored by Ottawa. Quebec's early demands for a type of constitutional change reflecting her role in a bi-national Canada had been ignored, or, rather, swallowed up by Prime Minister Trudeau's version of representation for French Canada in Ottawa. www.utpjournals.com /product/utlj/494/494_oliver.html   (16329 words)

Debating Dueppe's International Hockey Dream What matters most is the vision of the Quebec hockey player skating down the ice in his blue and white jersey to the roar of the crowd which, in turn, is waving the Quebec flag. What Duceppe takes from this is that Quebec is akin to Scotland or Wales in that it has a slightly different identity to that of its national state. In fact, the Bloc’s election platform may have come directly from the public policy manual of the Scottish National Party (SNP) which has sought to express Scottish culture through art, literature, song and sport in their attempts at gaining independence. www.canadafreepress.com /2005/duerr121205.htm   (1289 words)

A short history of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Due to protest of British colonists Quebec is split in 1791 in Upper Canada and Lower Canada (French speaking Quebec). Since 1936 the conservative Union nationale (National Union, UN) is next to the Liberal Party the dominant party in the francophone province of Québec. Campbell is defeated at the elections by the Liberal Jean Chrétien and all elections since that year have been won by the Liberals. www.electionworld.org /history/canada.htm   (550 words)

Québec The most recent general election was held on 14 April 2003, in which the separatist Parti Québécois won 45 of the legislature's 125 seats, while the anti-separatist Québec Liberal Party won 76. The Canadiens are the best-known team in hockey and have won the NHL championship (the Stanley Cup) a record 23 times—the earliest in 1924 and the most recent in 1993. The Quebec Nordiques played in the NHL from 1979 to 1996 before the franchise became the Colorado Avalanche. www.nationsencyclopedia.com /canada/Nunavut-to-Yukon/Qu-bec.html   (6723 words)

Maurice Duplessis (1890-1959) - Quebec History - Histoire du Québec First elected to the Quebec House of Assembly in 1927, Duplessis became the leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec in 1933; his party joined forces with Paul Gouin's Action libérale nationale in 1935 to form the Union Nationale party which was successful at the polls in 1936. In his first administration, between 1936 and 1939, he was a great disappointment, having been elected on a progressive platform that he soon abandoned after the election. Prime Minister of Quebec in a period of widespread centralization, in the war and post-war periods, Duplessis became the most important proponent of provincial autonomy. www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/bios/duplessi.htm   (336 words)

Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Quebec Election 2003 column In Quebec, the longest-serving government of modern times was that of the Union Nationale which, under Maurice Duplessis and two short-lived successors, ruled the province from 1944 to 1960. While it is certainly true that virtually all Quebecers who want a sovereign Quebec vote PQ, a sizable number vote for the party despite the independence hook, simply because they like its social democratic platform, or just can't stand the other parties or their leaders. Who knows, the worst case scenario for the PQ may be that it emerges from the April 14 election still in a position to challenge the next government one or two elections down the road. www.tomifobia.com /black/election_2003.shtml   (809 words)

uni.ca - Origins of Quebec separatism During the late 1960s, the movement was motivated primarily by the belief, shared by many Quebec intellectuals and labour leaders, that the economic difficulties of Quebec were caused by confederation and could only be ended by altering--or ending--the ties with other provinces and the central government. The rate of growth of the French Canadian population and the lack of good workable land outside the narrow St. Lawrence and Richelieu valleys contributed to the rush to low-paying jobs in urban industries and to the growth of slums, particularly in Montreal. By 1921 Quebec was the most urbanized and industrialized of all Canadian provinces, including Ontario, which remained, however, the most populous and the wealthiest. www.uni.ca /sep_origins.html   (1053 words)

Sherbrooke Record: Those were the days Election night was a hectic one at the Record. In Quebec, that translated into the Union Nationale, and the Record editorials supported that party all through the DUPLESSIS years and even through the Quiet Revolution of JEAN LESAGE'S Liberals. Johnson won the election, and Bassett phoned me that very night to make sure we ran a lead editorial the next morning urging our readers to "give the new government a chance." Those were the only times that Bassett and I ever spoke about the editorial content of the paper. members.tripod.com /Hughdoherty/days.htm   (2104 words)

Parti libГ©ral du QuГ©bec - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The Parti libГ©ral du QuГ©bec (Liberal Party of Quebec, although it refers to itself in English as the QuГ©bec Liberal Party), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec. The Liberals won the 1897 election, and held power without interruption for the next 39 years; the Conservatives never held power in Quebec again. 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. www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec_Liberal_Party   (1189 words)

Quebecs succesion from canada - PointAsk Question   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The main bodies of water that surround Quebec are James and Hudson bays on the west, Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay on the north, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the southeast and south. Quebec is the only province in which judges do not decide civil cases chiefly on the basis of common law. Quebec was one of the original provinces in the Dominion. www.pointask.com /pointask/f_q.php3?qid=41779   (7708 words)

2004 Democratic Primary NDP has surprisingly surged in the Atlantic since the 1997 election, and succeed in a couple of ridings since, the party is strong in NS, especially in Halifax, one of the few cities that's not entirely devoted electorally to the Liberals. Election is rapidly declared and Godbout Liberals suffered a crushing defeat. Today, in Quebec, calling a politician or candidate a "Duplessis" is one of the biggest insults, it means he or she is bossy, dictatorial and close-minded. uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=17.105   (4489 words)

Canadian / Québécois Glossary They took 54 seats in Quebec in the 1993 federal election and became the Official Opposition in the House of Commons in Ottawa, just two seats ahead of the right-wing Reform Party, which arose in Western Canada in opposition to the Liberals, the Conservatives and the New Democrats. A corner store in Quebec, often called a "mom and pop store" or a "milk store" in Ontario, since the largest ones at one time were Mac's Milk and Becker's. A phrase applied to Quebec, which was included in the ill-fated Meech Lake Accord of 1987, a constitutional compromise which the then Liberal government of Quebec agreed to. www.quaker.org /peaceweb/cgloss.html   (1516 words)

Ballot Access News -- May 1, 2003 The Utah election code is flawed and doesn't mention the deadline for this type of petition. Examples are Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, Norman Thomas in 1932, Congressman William Lemke in 1936, Henry Wallace in 1948, Strom Thurmond in 1948, and Ralph Nader in 2000. On April 3, the Federal Election Commission voted 4-2 to exempt the Socialist Workers Party from having to disclose its campaign contributors and expenditures. www.ballot-access.org /2003/0501.html   (4084 words)

1956: Quebec - Archive Article - MSN Encarta A provincial general election was held in Quebec on June 20, 1956, and the results constituted a personal triumph for the prime minister, Mr. Duplessis, chief of the Union Nationale party since 1936. The Union Nationale government was re-elected with an increased majority. encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461509700/1956_Quebec.html   (133 words)

Kuhl He sat in on all the discussions during the Quebec Conference of 1 864, he knew what the drafters of the Quebec resolutions intended and wanted, and as such was intimately acquainted with the thoughts and wishes of the delegation which went to London in December 1 866. The Quebec resolutions, the London resolutions, and the draft of the bill by the London delegates all indicate that the provinces of Canada desired federal union. Clause 70 of the Quebec resolutions indicates that whatever agreement was arrived at by the delegates would be submitted to the provinces for their approval. kanata.250free.com   (7564 words)

Our man in Quebec City? — Concordia University Magazine Features If he isn’t elected premier in the provincial elections that must be held this year (likely very soon), he’s young enough, and seems to have enough staying power, to be around to contest many a future battle. In June, another three ADQ members came in through by-elections, and the party now rests at five seats in the Assembly — still far from a majority government, even from official party recognition (which requires 12 seats), but definitely an improvement. The choice may be something along the lines that those in constituencies outside Quebec have experienced for years: a division along left and right wing positions. magazine.concordia.ca /2003/march/features/Dumont.shtml   (1751 words)

Why Chrétien put us on the sidelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Quebecers are overwhelmingly opposed to the war on Iraq. For most Quebecers and their politicians it was not their war, and for King, Canadian unity (and especially the survival of his government, to put a practical gloss on things) was more important than matters of Empire. Landry looks set to win the Quebec election anyway and the nation may not survive -- but there we are. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/883796/posts   (1501 words)

QuébecPolitique.com | General Election August-September 1867 This table was compiled starting from the political identity of each candidate presented on the website of the National Assembly of Quebec. (2) Due to riots in Kamouraska, there were no elections in this riding during the 1867 general. Thus, before the 1875 general election, there could not be "rejected ballots". www.quebecpolitique.com /election/elect01-en.html   (176 words)

Horton Journal of Canadian History As head of the Union Nationale, Maurice Duplessis led Québec from 1936 to 1939 and again in 1944 until his death in 1959. The legislation did not pass in Québec until 1936 and by this time, French-Canadians were fed up with Taschereau and the Liberals and the Union Nationale posed a serious threat. After the election, instead of advocating the policies of the Union Nationale, Duplessis attacked the government for patronage, nepotism and corruption and brought forth enough evidence to force Taschereau's resignation and the defeat of the Liberal Party under Adélard Godbout in the 1936 elections. www.angelfire.com /ns2/hjch2001/Demarco.htm   (1167 words)

WHERE DID IT ALL BEGIN? My family was divided — politically at least — between one uncle who held conservative views and other uncles whose belief in the ability of socialism to resolve all problems was quite touching; and very surprising in view of their intelligence. By 1936 just over half of the population over the age of 14 were covered by the scheme. One finds that, in the 1918 election, even people like Winston Churchill were advocating nationalization of the railways. www.quebecoislibre.org /990925-6.htm   (1472 words)

CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings He won his next four elections, but quit the Liberals in 1990 after Jean Chrétien became leader. He was appointed secretary of state for the federal office of regional development in Quebec in 1996 and became minister of national revenue and secretary of state for Canadian economic development in 1999. Member of Committee to Examine Matters Related to Quebec Accession to Sovereignty from 1991 to 1992. www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/081   (1337 words)

New Hampshire IMC: Free The Media Press - Issue 15, December 17, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) As reported in the NY Times, a plausibly free and fair election cannot be policed by American troops. While US soldiers have showed at least limited willingness to be effectively imprisoned during their training, their Iraqi counterparts insist on occasional leave, and often find themselves abducted and executed. With Sunni leaders calling for an election boycott in response to the destruction of Falluja, fundamentalist Islam has a promising future governing Iraq. nh.indymedia.org /newswire/display/1936/index.php   (2114 words)

The Right Honourable Joseph Jacques Jean Chretien By the 1950's, Liberals in Quebec were an endangered species, but Chrétien persevered and campaigned for Liberal candidates in both provincial and federal elections. By 1960, Chrétien was the principal organizer for Jean Lesage, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party. When John Turner retired from politics in 1990 after being defeated in 2 elections, Chrétien announced his leadership candidacy and won on the first ballot. www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/chretien.htm   (701 words)

Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Quebec Premier Adelard Godbout Column Godbout is considered Quebec's forgotten premier -- this in a place with the official motto je me souviens -- and he's forgotten largely because he was labeled and treated as a traitor in his day. The documentary also examines the wartime years in Quebec where, history has shown there was shame a-plenty to go around, notably overt support from some corners for Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini. For Godbout, however, his upset victory pinned him firmly between the groundswell of opposition to conscription in Quebec and the expectations of his Liberal backers in Ottawa who were in a pickle on the issue. www.tomifobia.com /adelard_godbout.html   (696 words)

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