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		Gilles Duceppe abandoned his Parti Quebecois leadership bid only one day after he announced his candidacy, marking a spectacular 24-hour turnaround from possible favourite to dropout in the race to lead Quebec's sovereignty movement.
		Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe said Friday that his party will vote in favour of a motion proposed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week that recognizes the Québécois as a nation in a united Canada.
		Bloc Québécois MP Benoît Sauvageau was killed today when his car struck a tow truck stopped on the road east of Montréal.
	www.newsvine.com /bloc-quebecois (830 words)

	Rever
		For example, in the last federal election,the Bloc Quebecois won 1,553,201 votes and was rewarded with 51 seats in parliament.
		Stephen Harper's gamble was simple - call the Quebec by-elections and call Stephane Dion over to face long odds in Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot and Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean and an NDP dream candidate in the generally Liberal riding of Outremont.
		This election ad by the Liberal Party of Ontario seems to indicate that Liberals will run on their record - making things slightly less difficult for people than they were four years ago when the Black cats still roamed the halls of power (yes, I am invoking Mouseland).
	readeverything.blogspot.com (2409 words)

	Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Bloc Québécois
		The Bloc Québécois (also known as the "BQ" or the "Bloc") is a federal political party, though it runs candidates only in the federal electoral districts of Quebec.
		The leadership of the party was assumed by Michel Gauthier for just over a year.
		In the federal general election of 1997, the BQ under Duceppe won only 44 seats, losing its Opposition status to the Alberta-based Reform Party of Canada (led by Preston Manning, son of longstanding former Alberta Premier Ernest Manning, whose Social Credit Party of Alberta remained in power there for decades).
	www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/bq.htm (919 words)

	Bloc Québécois leadership elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucien Bouchard, the first leader of the Bloc Québécois was elected by acclamation by the MPs who formed the Bloc in 1990.
		The first BQ leadership election was conducted among members of the party's directorate, which is the equivalent of the federal council of other parties.
		The 1997 leadership vote was conducted by a one member, one vote (OMOV) process involving all party members.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bloc_Quebecois_leadership_elections (218 words)

	ipedia.com: Bloc Québécois Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the 1993 election, the Bloc won 54 seats in Quebec, narrowly becoming the official opposition in Canada's parliament.
		The 1993 election and the election of a great number of Bloquistes was the first of The Three Periods, a plan intended to lay out the way to sovereignty created by future Jacques Parizeau.
		Of the many things the Bloc defended from then to the next election, some of the most memorable are: the uncovering of what has become the sponsorship scandal, the support for the Kyoto Accord, gay marriage and, and also the opposition to Canadian participation in the 2003 war in Iraq.
	www.ipedia.com /bloc_quebecois.html (2000 words)

	Bloc Québécois -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term "Bloc Québécois" was seen as early as 1926 in L'Action Française magazine in which an article called for a party of Quebecers defending the Quebec nationality in (The capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec)) Ottawa.
		Leader Gilles Duceppe has stated that the Bloc, as before, would co-operate with other opposition parties or with the government when interests are found to be in common but that the Bloc would never participate in a (additional info and facts about coalition government) coalition government.
		The current Bloc leader, (additional info and facts about Gilles Duceppe) Gilles Duceppe, is also the son of (additional info and facts about Jean Duceppe) Jean Duceppe, a famous Quebec actor who helped found the PQ and the (additional info and facts about Quebec NDP) Quebec NDP.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/bloc_qu%e9b%e9cois.htm (2354 words)

	Parti Québécois - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the 1976 provincial election, the Parti Québécois was elected to form the government of Quebec.
		Lucien Bouchard, founder of the Bloc Québécois, a sovereigntist party at the federal electoral level, succeeded Parizeau as PQ leader, but chose not to call another referendum due to the absence of "winning conditions".
		The Bloc Québécois is a Canadian political party at the federal level that was founded in 1990 by future PQ leader Lucien Bouchard.
	open-encyclopedia.com /PQ (772 words)

	Gilles Duceppe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1990 Duceppe was elected for the newly-formed Bloc Québécois in a by-election in Montreal's Laurier—Sainte-Marie; riding.
		Duceppe's victory in a by-election demonstrated, for the first time, that the party had electoral support in Quebec and was capable of winning elections.
		In the 1997 general election the BQ lost official opposition status, slipping to third place in the Canadian House of Commons behind the Reform Party.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/g/gi/gilles_duceppe.html (317 words)

	LEADERSHIP CONVENTION FACTS AND INFORMATION
		In Canadian politics, a leadership convention is held by a political party when the party needs to choose a leader due to a vacancy or a challenge to the incumbent leader.
		Unlike in the United_States, where political conventions are held every four years to choose the party's presidential nominee, in Canada the leader of a party generally remains that party's ''de facto'' candidate for Prime Minister until such time as he or she quits or is dismissed by the party.
		He was elected to parliament in a by-election on May_13, 2002 and became leader_of_the_opposition on May_21, 2002.
	www.bellabuds.com /leadership_convention (703 words)

	The dilemma of Canada and Québec
		The Bloc Quebecois won 54 seats in the federal election of 1993, thus becoming the Official Opposition (the second-largest party) in the federal Parliament.
		However, the fortunes of the Bloc Quebecois have revived in time for the upcoming federal election of June 28, 2004, partly in reaction to the federal sponsorship scandal, where $250 million dollars (Canadian) went to Liberal Party cronies in Quebec.
		It could be argued that the Quebecois nationalists have re-inflamed the memory of the battle of the Plains of Abraham, and the resultant Conquest -- the conquest of French Québec by the British in 1759.
	es.geocities.com /sucellus23/888.htm (2629 words)

	chretien
		He must have been struck by the similarity of their respective fates: both men tried to manipulate the electorate by calling early elections on the basis of promising polls, and both men saw themselves weakened politically as a result of the gamble.
		Duceppe's leadership is bound to be questioned in the weeks and months to come, once again raising the question of whether or not the Bloc can survive without its founding father, Quebec Prime Minister Lucien Bouchard, at the helm.
		But the Reform Party will have the same problem the Bloc had when it formed the Opposition: it simply cannot claim to speak for the whole country, since not a single one of its candidates was elected east of Manitoba.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Harvey_Morris/chretien.htm (738 words)

	Briques du Neige: Election Primer Part 1: The Feds
		The Parti Québécois (the provincial separatist party and current opposition) are having a leadership race towards a provincial election in the near future.
		The Bloc's political position, aside from sovereignty, is quite close to that of the NDP.
		The last election was called because the Liberals time was running out and the Conservatives thought they could take advantage of a scandal-ridden government (I didn't even touch on the Sponsorship Scandal, but it's big and bad).
	briquesduneige.blogspot.com /2005/10/election-primer-part-1-feds.html (1361 words)

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