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	Quebec's Constitutional Veto: The Legal and Historical Context (BP295e) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		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.
		Moreover, Quebec’s signature implied that the government of that province was, at least in the formal sense, renouncing its distinctness...
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/PRBpubs/bp295-e.htm (3475 words)

	Groupe socialiste des travailleurs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Groupe socialiste des travailleurs du Québec or GST (in English: Quebec Socialist Workers' Group) was a far left political movement founded in 1973 by militants of the Fourth International in Quebec, Canada.
		The GST was also at the origin of the coalition of the Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec and the Regroupement des militants syndicaux that contested seats in the 1976 Quebec general election.
		It also ran independent candidates in the 1981 Quebec general election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Groupe_socialiste_des_travailleurs (140 words)

	Jean Charest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he worked as a lawyer from 1981 until he was elected Progressive Conservative member of Parliament for Sherbrooke in the 1984 election.
		In the 1998 Quebec election, the Liberals received more votes than the incumbent Parti Québécois, but because the Liberal vote was concentrated in fewer ridings, the PQ won enough seats to form another majority government.
		In the April 2003 election Charest was elected premier of Quebec with a majority government, ending nine years of rule by the PQ.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/j/je/jean_charest.html (405 words)

	Parti Québécois - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the 1976 provincial election, the Parti Québécois was elected to form the government of Quebec.
		The 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty association was rejected by 60 per cent of voters.
		With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, two packages of proposed amendmnts to the Canadian constitution, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved, and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.
	open-encyclopedia.com /PQ (772 words)

	Parti Québécois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the 1976 provincial election, the Parti Québécois was elected to form the government of Quebec with René Lévesque as its leader.
		With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.
		The current Bloc leader, Gilles Duceppe, is also the son of Jean Duceppe, an famous Quebec actor that helped found the PQ and the New Democratic Party branch in Quebec (now separated from the federal NDP and merged in the Union des Forces Progressistes).
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/p/pa/parti_quebecois.html (721 words)

	1976_Quebec_election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Quebec general election of 1976 was held on November 15, 1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
		It was one of the most significant elections in Quebec history, rivalled only by the 1960 general election.
		The 1976 election also set the stage for the 1980 Quebec referendum on the PQ's proposal for political independence in an economic union with the rest of Canada called sovereignty-association.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=1976_Quebec_election (480 words)

	Quebec sovereignty movement biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Quebec sovereigntists are generally not in opposition to federalism as a concept, but are opposed to the present federal system of Canada and do not believe it can be reformed in a way that could answer what they see as the legitimate wish of Quebecers to govern themselves freely.
		In the 1976 Quebec election, the PQ elected 71 candidates to the general astonishment of all of Quebec and the rest of Canada.
		Sovereignty-association was proposed to the population of Quebec in the 1980 Quebec referendum.
	quebec-sovereignism.biography.ms (2688 words)

	Quebec general election, 1981 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 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.
		The party were not helped by the fact that its leader in the 1976 election, Rodrigue Biron, had resigned from the party and joined the Parti Québécois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_general_election,_1981 (212 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the 1984 election, the party nominated 52 candidates in 51 ridings, and collected a total of 17,044 votes (0.13% of votes cast in all ridings).
		The party failed to nominate at least fifty candidates for the 1993 election, and was deregistered by Elections Canada on September 27, 1993.
		Quebec Social Credit supporters were mostly social conservatives and Quebec nationalists, while western Canadian supporters were mostly socially conservative populists.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada (2779 words)

	Cities and Towns - Hometown Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Quebec did not agree to the changes, and Quebec nationalists refer to that night as the Night of the Long Knives.
		The official language of Quebec is French, as defined by the province's Charter of the French Language, which was introduced by the Parti Quebecois in 1976.
		French is mostly spoken in Quebec with pockets in New Brunswick, eastern and northern Ontario, Saskatchewan, and southern Manitoba.
	www.hometowncanada.com (5275 words)

	CANADA
		It is a flat to gently rolling region that extends southwest from Quebec City to Lake Huron and includes all of the St. Lawrence River valley and the Ontario Peninsula, a triangular, densely populated area of southern Ontario that is bordered by the shores of Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
		Quebec nationalists, provincial premiers, and, more recently, feminists and aboriginal leaders have sought and sometimes won major victories as Canadians transformed their constitution from a British law into a homemade institution.
		Quebec is nicknamed la belle province ("the beautiful province") because of its variety of lakes, forests, and open country, its commercial centers, and its French culture.
	personales.mundivia.es /lbouza/canada.htm (12063 words)

	Parti_Quebecois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Parti Québécois or PQ is a political party that advocates national sovereignty for Quebec from Canada.
		This was cause for celebration among many French-speaking Quebecers, but resulted in panic and a mass exodus among many of the province's anglophone and minority workers and business people.
		With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, two packages of proposed amendments to the Canadian constitution, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved, and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Parti_Quebecois (863 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		The Director General of Elections of Quebec therefore contacted the Solicitor General's Office suggesting the conclusion of an administrative agreement concerning the voting of inmates of federal penitentiaries in the province of Quebec.
		On 30 March 1981, the authors' request for an injunction was rejected by the federal court of first instance, for reasons of "form" and of "substance".
		They submit that, after the elections ' in the state of the law as it was before the adoption of section 3 of the Constitution Act of 1982, an action for a declaratory judgement did not constitute an effective and sufficient domestic remedy ensuring respect for their right to vote.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/undocs/html/113-1981.htm (3296 words)

	Discussion Paper. The Reform of the Voting System in Québec
		General election: The PQ under René Lévesque defeats Claude Ryan’s Liberals and is reelected with 49.2% of the vote and 65.6% of the seats.
		Quebecers are familiar with this voting system and have a good grasp of the phases of an election.
		On general election night, when voters hear the TV announcer utter the stock phrase "If the trend continues..." they know the score: One of the parties in the race is winning a majority of seats in the National Assembly and will form the next Government of Québec.
	www.assnat.qc.ca /eng/Publications/rapports/rapci1eng.htm (15291 words)

	Parti libéral du Québec biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Parti libéral du Québec (Liberal Party of Quebec), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec.
		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.
		Since the election of April 14, 2003, the Liberals have formed the current government of Quebec under Premier Jean Charest.
	quebec-liberal-party.biography.ms (1013 words)

	From Bourassa to Bourassa, Second Edition
		It provides a general-enough picture of Quebec politics, particularly from the mid-1970s through the mid- 1990s, to be of interest to uninitiated readers simply curious about Bourassa or the roots of contemporary Quebec and Canadian politics.
		The story of the Quebec Liberal Party during its wilderness years between the 1976 election of the Parti Québécois and its return to power in 1985.
		This contributed to Ryan's defeat in the 1981 Quebec election and to Bourassa's restoration.
	www.mqup.mcgill.ca /book.php?bookid=556 (374 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		The Director General of Elections of Quebec therefore contacted the Solicitor General's Office suggesting the conclusion of an administrative agreement concerning the voting of inmates of federal penitentiaries in the province of Quebec.
		On 30 March 1981, the authors' request for an injunction was rejected by the federal court of first instance, for reasons of "form" and of "substance".
		They submit that, after the elections ' in the state of the law as it was before the adoption of section 3 of the Constitution Act of 1982, an action for a declaratory judgement did not constitute an effective and sufficient domestic remedy ensuring respect for their right to vote.
	www.umn.edu /humanrts/undocs/html/113-1981.htm (3296 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 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.
		The party were not helped by the fact that its leader in the 1976 election, Rodrigue Biron, had resigned from the party and joined the Parti QuÃ©bÃ©cois.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Quebec_general_election,_1981 (194 words)

	Bloc Quebecois: The Road of Sovereignty
		One year later in 1981, despite the referendum loss that many had seen as the death knell for the Parti Québécois, the PQ was returned to power with a strong majority.
		The repeated failures to renew Canadian federalism leave Quebecers only two true options: the status quo, i.e., Canada just the way it is, with all its insensitivity to their legitimate and historical aspirations, or the way of the future, the road to sovereignty.
		Quebecers unanimously hold that sovereignty will be mindful of the rights of all citizens, regardless of origin or language.
	www.rocler.qc.ca /turp/eng/Road/Road.htm (7435 words)

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Before he "chose Quebec", Charest was the face of the federal Progressive Conservative party.
		After the party's decimation in that year's election (they were reduced to 2 seats), he became leader.
		He was acclaimed Quebec Liberal leader in March, 1998, after being pressured to replace Daniel Johnson, but lost the provincial election that year to Bouchard, the then-PQ premier.
	www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/provinc_elections/quebec_elec.html (783 words)

	Parti Québécois - free-definition
		The Parti Québécois or PQ is a political party which advocates national independence for Quebec and social democracy; Quebec is a province of the Canadian federation since 1867.
		Following the 2004 federal elections, the Bloc Québécois is is the third largest party in the Canadian House of Commons.
		It may play a significant role in this Parliament because the governing Liberals do not have a majority, and are one vote short of a majority even if they secure the support of the New Democratic Party.
	www.netlexikon.akademie.de /PQ.html (782 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings
		He resigned in 2003 to run for the Parti Québécois in the provincial election.
		Normand was appointed secretary of state for agriculture and agri-food and fisheries and oceans in 1997 and secretary of state for science, research and development in 1999, a position he held until 2002.
		Liberal Gaston Gourde won in the 1981 byelection, but was defeated in 1984 by Progressive Conservative Gabriel Fontaine who served two terms.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/068 (662 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Quebec's Revenge of the Cradle II column
		In 1981, in the aftermath of the wrenching referendum campaign of the previous year, the PQ looked to be in a sorry state.
		Another was the threat to Quebec's interests posed by the triumphant federal government of Pierre Trudeau with its constitutional repatriation pan.
		The PQ won the April 13, 1981, election handily, capitalizing on the moderate nationalist francophone vote that gravitated to the party since it had renounced a commitment to another referendum.
	www.tomifobia.com /black/cradle_revenge.shtml (718 words)

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		Canadian Parliament for the riding (electoral district) of Sherbrooke in the 1984 election.
		In the 1993 election, the Conservative party was swept from power: only two of the party's 295 candidates were elected—Charest and
		National Assembly of Quebec as they had won in the previous election in 1994, in which the Liberals had been led by Daniel Johnson, Jr.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Jean_Charest (465 words)

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		political party which advocates national independence for Quebec and social democracy; Quebec is a province of the Canadian federation since 1867.
		Quebecers, but resulted in panic and a mass exodus among many of the province's anglophone workers and business people.
		The first PQ government, elected in 1976, was known as the "republic of teachers" because of its high number of MNAs teaching at the university level.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Parti_Qu%E9b%E9cois (722 words)

	Toronto Star
		But, in the months leading to Quebec's election in April 2003, he focused on health care, immersing himself in every detail.
		By the time the election was called, he could rhyme off the number of doctors available in an emergency ward in any Quebec hospital.
		The stakes were high; Quebec premiers carry the weight of history when they embark on federal-provincial negotiations.
	www.godeke.org /News/General_Canada.htm (730 words)

	ipedia.com: Liberal Party of Quebec Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It traditionally supports Canadian federalism, as opposed to Quebec sovereignty, and the role of government in the economy, although in recent years its economic policies have moved towards neoliberalism.
		The Liberals were in opposition to the ruling Quebec Conservative Party for most of the first 20 years after Confederation, except for 18 months of Liberal minority government in 1878-1879.
		Since the election of April 14, 2003, the Liberals have formed the current government of Quebec under Premier Jean Charest, a former federal Progressive Conservative cabinet minister and leader.
	www.ipedia.com /liberal_party_of_quebec.html (1082 words)

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