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  parti qubcois - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
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 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.
Bouchard resigned in 2001, and was succeeded as PQ leader and Quebec premier by Bernard Landry, a former PQ Finance minister.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Politics of Quebec
The principal judicial courts of Quebec are the Court of Quebec, the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal.
It weakened Meech provisions on Quebec and sought to resolve the concerns of the West, and was soundly rejected by a country-wide referendum in 1992.
Quebec is a participating government in the international organization the Francophonie, which can be seen as a sort of Commonwealth of Nations for French-speaking countries.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Quebec Liberal Party
The Parti libéral du Québec (Quebec Liberal Party), or PLQ (QLP), is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Its main opposition from the time of Confederation (1867) to the 1930s was the Quebec Conservative Party.
That party's successor, the Union Nationale, was the main opposition to the Liberals until the 1970s.
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  The Rendon Group - Experience
Leaders from 21 former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern European countries met with senior elected and appointed officials of the United States government.
TRG was retained by the democratic Panamanian opposition coalition, Alianza Democratica de la Oposicion Civilista (ADO-Civilista), to design and implement a strategic and tactical communications plan for the May 1989 elections.
TRG helped ADO Civilista leaders deliver a forceful and consistent message to the Panamanian public and restore confidence in the new government as it assumed office after the arrest of General Noriega.
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  CalendarHome.com - National Assembly of Quebec - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The National Assembly of Quebec (French: Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the name for the legislative body of the province of Quebec, Canada which was defined in the Canadian constitution as the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (French: Assemblée législative du Québec).
The original Quebec legislature was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly.
Normally, the leader of the political party with the largest number of elected candidates is asked by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec to form the government as Premier.
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  Politics of Quebec at AllExperts
The principal judicial courts of Quebec are the Court of Quebec, the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal.
Quebec is a participating government in the international organization the Francophonie, which can be seen as a sort of Commonwealth of Nations for French-speaking countries.
In the 1980 Quebec referendum, Premier Lévesque asked the Quebec people for "a mandate to negotiate" his proposal for "sovereignty-association" with the rest of Canada, meaning political sovereignty for Quebec in an economic association with the rest of Canada, Sixty per cent of the Quebec electorate voted against it.
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 Parti libГ©ral du QuГ©bec - Free net encyclopedia
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 were in opposition to the ruling Conservatives for most of the first 20 years after Confederation, except for 18 months of Liberal minority government in 1878-1879.
Bourassa was succeeded as Liberal leader by Claude Ryan, the former director of the respected Montreal newspaper, Le Devoir.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec_Liberal_Party   (1226 words)

  
 List of Quebec leaders of the Opposition
This is a list of the leaders of the Opposition of Quebec, Canada since Confederation (1867).
Note that the leader of the Opposition is not always the leader of the political party with the second-largest number of seats, in cases where the leader of that party does not have a seat.
There was no Leader of the Opposition until March 1869, when the government's second budget was introduced.
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 Media Finance News
The PNP is born of the division of the Ralliement créditiste du Québec after Fabien Roy, one of the two creditist MNAs that were elected in the 1973 Quebec general election, was expelled from the party.
Roy was appointed leader of the federal Social Credit Party of Canada on March 30, 1979, and resigned his National Assembly seat on April 5, 1979, bringing the Parti national populaire to an end.
She later reinvented herself as Oracle, a research assistant for superheroes and the leader of the Birds of Prey female superhero team.
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 Claude_Ryan Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
He was also the National Assembly of Quebec member for Argenteuil from 1979 to 1994.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was the director of Le Devoir, a French-language newspaper available in the province of Quebec, from 1964 to 1978.
As Liberal leader he led the defeat of the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty against René Lévesque, but then led his party to defeat in the 1981 election and never became Premier of Quebec.
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 VIOLENCE AGAINST OPPOSITION POLITICAL LEADERS IN MEXICO II/III
Each of these cases is noteworthy, but, for the sake of illustrating the seriousness of the situation, it should be observed that the son and daughter of the country's two most-important opposition leaders have been victims of dangerous acts of violence.
Of the 62 cases listed in this study, 16 (25.8%) resulted in the death of the official or leader, whereas 23 other cases (37.1%) involved attempted murder with a firearm and/or other means and/or assault and battery and/or torture.
Though, in all probability, it represents only a limited proportion of the total number of cases, and despite its restriction to elected officials and other opposition leaders, this list is one of the first to be compiled on human-rights violations in Mexico.
www.tlahui.com /leaders2.htm   (1031 words)

  
 Lessons of Quebec City
While the People's Summit stood in clear opposition to the Summit of the Americas, it was funded in part by the Quebec provincial government to the tune of $300,000.
When I read that some labor leaders were talking about walking away from the wall, it was clear that we needed to give it some leadership by marching in solidarity with the younger people who were taking on the police.
Quebec gave a whole layer of activists a taste of what it would be like to actually shut down a major trade meeting.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Dissent/Lessons_QuebecCity.html   (4331 words)

  
 Socialist History Project
We are very pleased to begin with Some Thoughts on the Russian Revolution of 1917, by John Boyd, who was a leader of the CPC from 1930 to 1968.
Charles Gagnon 1939-2005 is an evaluation of the founder and main leader of En Lutte!, written by Marxists who respected him while disagreeing with his politics.
In July 1970, five leaders of the largest new left group on the Prairies announced their decision to join the Young Socialists/Ligue des Jeunes Socialistes.
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 TPL News Link List
The Conservative government is insisting that all travel expenses racked up by the Federal Labour Minister were made public, contrary to NDP claims that almost $150,000 is missing from the official tally.
Champagne asked whether it was harder to sell a leader from a different sexual orientation, especially with the local factory workers.
Elizabeth May, the new leader of the Green Party of Canada, plans to run for a Cape Breton seat in the next federal election.
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 Socialist Voice
But considering the lack of eagerness of the sovereigntist and progressive forces in Quebec to act as advocates for the immense mass opposition to the deployment of Canadian forces in Afghanistan — more than 70% of the population according to recent polls — the actual organization of a fake terrorist plot seems superfluous.
[4] Pacifism heads the list in the Parti Québécois Declaration of Principles, but this theme is not part of the discourse of its leaders, nor for that matter of the leaders of the Bloc Québécois.
Opposition to the war transcends language and ethnic divisions, and the perspective of an independent peace-loving Quebec would win the support of a majority of Francophones, members of the ethnic communities and even a fair number of Anglophones otherwise opposed to Quebec independence.
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 Socialist Action/Canada
By and large, however, the Quebec bourgeoisie is not very much in favour of sovereignty for the same reasons that most social movements are in favour of it.
By rejecting independence, though, Quebec socialists would be siding with the Conseil du patronat, the Canadian imperialist bourgeoisie and its parties in Ottawa against the bulk of the Quebec labour and women's movements, and against Quebecois youth.
Native people in Quebec often seem to perceive Quebec sovereignty as an attempt to grab their land, especially with respect to the North, which was transferred to Quebec in 1912.
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 Quebec at AllExperts
The official language of Quebec is French; it is the sole Canadian province whose population is mainly French Canadian, and where English is not an official language.
Quebec is also the sole territory north of the Caribbean Sea - aside from France itself, and the thinly populated archipelago of St-Pierre and Miquelon - where French is spoken by a majority of the population.
The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
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 Quebec
Opposition to the retention of the sacred heart on what was fundamentally a civil flag remained, and support grew in the 1930s for a return to Filiatrault's Carillon flag.
Quebec's reads like a chronology: fleurs-de-lis in the chief representing the French Régime, an English lion in the centre (fess) representing the British Period, and maple leaves in the base for the Canadian period.
It is divided into three diagonal panels: the red at the hoist bears the national symbol of a maple leaf; the white in the centre, the city's arms; and the blue on the fly, the provincial emblem of a fleur-de-lis.
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 E:M | Funny list of future leaders in Iran   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pejman, you just know the name and their position, and you made a list by their reputation, however there are lots of more points you didn't care about them at all,be sure thta you will never see them even at a post near to a leader.
Top 5 list of only possible leaders as it "should" be, but might not happen in "near=100 years" future: 1.
The problem is not the individual leaders but the lack of a "Sapere Aude" spirit which is not in place for people in general (as I beleive this is the case in west as well) and the elites in particular (this is not the case in west and thus the success story of the west).
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 Mapleleafweb.com: Spotlight - 2003 Quebec Provincial Election - Political Parties and Leaders
Leader Biography – Jean Charest is the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and leader of the Official Opposition in Quebec's Assemblée Nationale.
In 1998, he became leader of the Quebec Liberal Party and was elected to the Quebec Assemblée Nationale.
In 1994, he became leader of the ADQ in April 1994 and was elected to the Quebec Assemblée Nationale.
www.mapleleafweb.com /education/spotlight/issue_30/party.html   (602 words)

  
 Striking Quebec students mark first anniversary of budget cuts
Quebec musicians such as Paul Piche and Loco Locas joined actors and social groups to support thousands of students who gathered to protest the provincial government decision to turn $103 million in student bursaries into loans.
All quebec needs to do now, is keep up the harassment of Walmart, strengthen unions and in a few years, Canada will get so tired of paying the bills they will cast off the country on its own.
However, the student leaders are backed by powerful unions and the political opposition that reaps a benefit by creating a crisis with the students.
www.gnn.tv /headlines/1807/Striking_Quebec_students_mark_first_anniversary_of_budget_cuts   (1445 words)

  
 James Bay Cree and Quebec Hydro Development
Quebec first made the killing of beaver by non-lndians illegal in the northern regions of the province, and then in the mid-1930s outlawed all killing of beaver.
When the government of Quebec announced its plans for hydroelectric development in the James Bay region in April, 1971, it followed its practice of neither involving the Cree in the decision nor examining the impacts of the development on them.
Joined by the Inuit of northern Quebec, some of whom lived on one of the rivers to be diverted by the project, in November, 1972, they initiated the longest temporary injunction hearing in Canadian history.
arcticcircle.uconn.edu /HistoryCulture/Cree/Feit1/feit2.html   (3586 words)

  
 Rudely calling Quebec a hotbed of anti-Semitism
The journalists and editors in Quebec might not even be able to recognize anti-Semitism in particular and racism in general, having been raised and educated in an environment where insults and threats aimed at Jews and visible minorities are simply part of the background (literally and figuratively).
One reason is her speculation that if Quebec were to achieve independence, it would delist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by "day two" and begin serving almost immediately as a safe harbour for "fanatical exterminationists", so popular (in her mind) are anti-Israel and anti-American sentiments in the province.
Quebec, meanwhile, was home to 24% of Jewish Canadians, and accounted for--lo and behold--24% of all anti-Semitic incidents (incidentally, Alberta is 4% and 4%, respectively, and the Maritimes, 2% and 2%).
www.stevejanke.com /archives/192723.php   (6944 words)

  
 News | TimesDaily.com | TimesDaily | Florence, AL   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The National Assembly of Quebec (French: Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the name for the legislative body of the province of Quebec, Canada which was defined in the Canadian constitution as the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (French: Assemblée législative du Québec).
The original Quebec legislature was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly.
Normally, the leader of the political party with the largest number of elected candidates is asked by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec to form the government as Premier.
www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Quebec_National_Assembly   (676 words)

  
 Socialist Action/Canada
We were at the forefront of the gay and lesbian liberation movements, in defence of Quebec self-determination, and we led the internationalist and revolutionary left wing of the Waffle movement inside the NDP.
It is not a private club for the current leaders, but a political party of the class that must come to terms with the anachronism known as capitalist rule.
Its Canadian nationalist and electoralist politics, its hostility to Quebec independence, and its orientation towards “progressive” labour bureaucrats, render the CP a brake on radicalizing workers.
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 CBC - Quebec Votes 2003
Although Action Démocratique du Québec leader Mario Dumont was the only member of his party to win a seat in the past two general elections, the ADQ has started this campaign with the support of a large number of Quebecers.
For his part, Liberal leader Jean Charest offers an alternative to the ruling PQ that's rooted in self-affirmation for Quebecers: if they look closely at his party, he says, they'll find what they're looking for.
Three leaders, three parties, each striving to define a vision of where Quebec should be headed.
www.cbc.ca /quebecvotes2003/features/feature1.html   (1363 words)

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