Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Money and the ethnic vote


Related Topics

In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Money and the ethnic vote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the analysis of voting patterns, an "ethnic vote" is a vote where members of a given ethnic group strongly support a candidate or an option in a distinct manner.
The anglophone vote is largely federalist (95%), as is the allophone vote (roughly 92%).
The vote is clearly split along linguistic lines, non-francophones voting almost invariably for the party or option opposed to separatism, which they often consider a French-Canadian ethnic, if not chauvinistic, issue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Money_and_the_ethnic_vote   (935 words)

  
 money - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about money   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Money is usually coinage (invented by the Chinese in the second millennium
In 1994 Mondex electronic money was introduced experimentally in Swindon, Wiltshire, England.
The Captain John Hull aforesaid was the mint-master of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made there.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /money   (208 words)

  
 MONEY AND THE ETHNIC VOTE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1995, a referendum on Quebec's sovereignty was held in Quebec, a province of Canada.
In Quebec, statisticians refer to the "ethnic vote" as the traditional voting patterns of Quebec's three "ethnicities": francophones, anglophones and allophones (residents whose native tongue is neither English nor French).
Traditionally, the francophone vote is split between the federalist and sovereignist options (40% and 60% respectively).
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/MONEY+AND+THE+ETHNIC+VOTE   (492 words)

  
 Parti Québécois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the night of the defeat, Premier Jacques Parizeau stated that the loss was caused by "money and the ethnic vote" as well as by the divided votes amongst francophones.
A vote was held during the party's June 2005 convention to determine whether Landry continues to have the confidence of the party membership.
Landry said he wanted at least 80% of approval and after gaining 76,2% approval on the confidence vote from party membership on June 4, 2005, Bernard Landry announced his intention to resign.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parti_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois   (1155 words)

  
 Sameer’s article on Quebec
However, one ethnic sub-region, Canada’s Province du Quebec, stands out as a place where leaders of an independence movement have relied on legal, codified avenues to win their ends.
However, it ruled further that if the people of Quebec were to ever vote “yes” in a sovereignty referendum with a “clear majority on a clear question,” Canada’s government would be obliged to at least negotiate separation in good faith.
The legitimation of the ethnic groups’ distinctiveness through official representative bodies, as in Quebec, made their sovereignty more acceptable to Moscow and the international family.
www.sameerdoshi.com /Quebec.html   (2408 words)

  
 Jacques Parizeau's Famous Speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There's no doubt in my mind that you younger people out there voted in the immense majority in favour of a country.
But now I'm talking to battle veterans, people of my own age who have been seeking a country for years and years, and I'm telling you don't be discouraged.
In the coming days people are going to speak out against us, they will say we don't know what we want, it is just the way it always was.
www.geocities.com /capitolhill/lobby/4652/parizeau.html   (596 words)

  
 Native Hawaiians Vote in Ethnic Referendum
The mail-in plebiscite, the Native Hawaiian Vote, which started on July 15 and is to continue until Aug. 15, could indeed be the start of something momentous, though its ultimate goal remains undecided.
The fate of the vote itself is also in question, with some of the biggest native Hawaiian rights groups denouncing it as an effort by the state to usurp the sovereignty movement.
The vote, whose results are to be announced on Sept. 2, has been challenged by lawsuits that could torpedo it, including one asserting that such a race-based vote is unconstitutional.
www.hawaii-nation.org /referendum.html   (1146 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Newsmaker with Lucien Bouchard -- April 23,1996
I can't imagine that in the day after a "yes" vote, a referendum on sovereignty, that Canada, democratic country, with a reputation for democracy and respect of the will of people, would try to stop the accession of Quebec to sovereignty, why it is based on such a democratic process, it's not possible.
Parizeau, used the words--he blamed the defeat on money and the ethnic vote.
Parizeau, himself, wrote a letter to excuse himself, in the weeks after that, although the letter is not very quoted often, but he did write a letter, and, uh, those were not the kind of words we have to issue, because they don't reflect what we think.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/canada/bouchard_4-23.html   (1602 words)

  
 NFB Mediasphere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On October 30, Quebecers headed to the polls to vote on whether or not Quebec should become a sovereign country after making a formal offer of a new political and economic partnership with the rest of Canada.
In the end, the results were nail-bitingly close: 49.4% of Quebecers voted yes and 50.6 voted no, with an astounding 93.52% of Quebecers turning out to vote on the future of the province.
Parizeau blamed the defeat on "money and the ethnic vote" and Bouchard subsequently vowed to continue to fight for sovereignty, arguing that Quebec's refusal to sign the new Canadian constitution guaranteed it the right to self-determination.
mediasphere.nfb.ca /E/history/content/quebec_referendum.epl   (344 words)

  
 Wednesday Night Quotations collected by Robert Stewart
The big yes vote in the referendum was a cry from French-Canadians saying, "We want to be ourselves!" They were saying, "Stick your chequebook!" For the young Quebecois, Canada is a chimera.
[Re Parizeau's remark that sovereignty was defeated by money and the ethnic vote]: Racism in Quebec is a fact, but you don't say it in public.
Ethnic nationalism is clearly driving the separatist movement.
pages.infinit.net /westweb/wedntQuotes.htm   (1563 words)

  
 Vote Stirs Ethnic Rivalries in Kirkuk
Now, the Jan. 30 vote is testing the groups' fragile coexistence.
On Saturday, the Kurdistan parliament reached a tentative deal to participate in the vote, pending the registration of an additional 100,000 Kurdish voters.
Kurds are demanding that election officials register 100,000 additional Kurds to vote in the city, claiming their names were mistakenly or intentionally left off registration lists.
www.ekurd.net /mismas/articles/misc2005/1/vote58.htm   (1411 words)

  
 Migration News
On October 30, 1995, Quebec voted 51 to 49 percent to remain part of Canada--a switch of 25,000 votes would have led to a vote for separation.
Quebec's premier blamed the narrow defeat on "money and the ethnic vote." He later said his remarks were too harsh but did not retract them.
Since the vote, many minority residents are concerned about the future, expecting that the next general election in two years will bring another separatist referendum.
migration.ucdavis.edu /mn/more.php?id=814_0_2_0   (739 words)

  
 The Agonist | thoughtful, global, timely
The separatist cause seemed to be strengthened during the federal parliamentary election in June when the Bloc Québécois, a close ally of the Parti Québécois, won 49 percent of the Quebec vote and 54 of 75 seats that the province holds in the House of Commons.
He was forced to quit after the defeat because of the infamous phrase he prununced in the defeat speech:'we lost because of money and ethnic vote'.
From that perspective it would seem that complaining about the 'ethnic vote' is akin to a US politician in a state with lots of Hispanics complaining about only losing because of the immigrant vote.
www.agonist.org /story/2004/8/18/83548/7629   (3435 words)

  
 Parizeau Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the day of the leaders' debate, Jean Charest, leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec, was presented by his entourage with an article from the website of the Trois-Rivières newspaper Le Nouvelliste.
It spoke of past Parti Québécois leader Jacques Parizeau reiterating his controversial money and the ethnic vote statement of his 1995 referendum concession speech.
This assessment was later found not to be entirely true (although it is debated).
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parizeau_Affair   (243 words)

  
 Ukrainian Quebecers comment on province's referendum (12/17/95)
But while Canadians living outside Quebec may have found some comfort in knowing their country would not break up, the mood for many Quebecers, separatist or not, was perhaps less buoyant.
"Money and the ethnic vote," were the culprits, he said.
In the days following the crucial vote, reports suggested that several polling stations in which there is a considerable ethnic population had experienced high ballot rejection.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1995/519509.shtml   (816 words)

  
 1996 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents - Antisemitism in Canada: Current Climate and Trends
Following the infamous referendum night remarks of former Premier Jacques Parizeau —; blaming the sovereignist defeat on “money and the ethnic vote,” long-time separatist hard-liner Pierre Bourgault called the Jewish, Italian and Greek communities racist for their block vote against Quebec sovereignty.
First, the ethnic press is not as systematically monitored as is the English or French language media because of lack of easy accessibility.
The non-deliberate forms of anti-Semitism found in the ethnic media are generally of Jewish stereotyping.
www.bnaibrith.ca /publications/audit1996/audit1996-06.html   (2953 words)

  
 The Globe and Mail 160th Anniversary
"It is true that we were beaten by the power of money and the ethnic vote.
Parizeau's statement made it clear the sovereigntist camp has given up on the ethnic vote in the province.
The size of the francophone vote in support of the sovereignty option cannot be ignored by the rest of Canada as it looks for way to heal the wounds.
www.globeandmail.com /special/globe160/history/1995.html   (1201 words)

  
 Bush and Kerry vie for the ethnic vote, but it’s not all black and white - [Sunday Herald]
That is with or without Nader in the race, and despite Kerry’s remarkable ability to raise money.
A handsome lecturer and civil rights lawyer, his potential is considered so great that his campaign has attracted money from Hollywood activists such as Barbra Streisand and director Rob Reiner.
Indeed, the government agency found fls were 10 times as likely to have had their votes tossed compared with whites or Latinos.
www.sundayherald.com /43631   (861 words)

  
 Bouchard disavows his deputy premier [Bernard Landry on referendum and ethnic vote]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Former premier Jacques Parizeau fingered ``money and the ethnic vote'' for the Yes side's defeat in the 1995 referendum.
Landry also blamed an ethnic hotel worker and other immigrants for the sovereigntist loss during an encounter the night of the vote.
That would mean about 80 per cent of French Quebecers would have to vote Yes to counter the near-unanimous No vote by the province's anglophones and ethnic voters.
old.law.mcgill.ca /academics/coursenotes/scott/cpn/branswell1.htm   (554 words)

  
 BITTER VICTORY
The final tally was 50.6% for the no side versus 49.4% for those voting yes for separation, a difference of just 53,000 votes out of 4.8 million cast.
He and Chretien emphasized that however many qualifications were attached, a yes vote was a vote for separation.
But if any event turned the vote back around to the nos, it was the spontaneous unity rally that took Montreal by storm on Oct. 27.
www.time.com /time/international/1995/951113/canada.html   (1887 words)

  
 [No title]
Before the 1995 referendum, Jacques Parizeau assured Quebecers that after a majority yes vote, an offer of partnership would be made to the rest of Canada and that only if negotiations on this offer were to fail over a period of about a year would Quebec move to a unilateral declaration of independence.
Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau publicly blamed the sovereigntists' defeat on "money and the ethnic vote." His statement has prompted charges of racism, and other sovereigntists are attempting to heal wounds and build confidence within the province's cultural communities.
The vote may be held as early as next June if the government's strategy can build the type of momentum needed to attract support from beyond the ranks of committed separatists.
wilsontxt2.hwwilson.com /wbd/1986/019/740/fxt/00004001.htm   (3495 words)

  
 [02-19-99] Rene Ciria-Cruz, Tracking The Ethnic Vote -- Brown's Secret Weapon -- The Chinese Vote
"Ammiano was hit by a tidal wave of soft money spending on TV ads, targeted mailings, ethnic media buys targeting gay and Chinese communities and hammered home the image of Ammiano as a tax-and-spend candidate," said Lee.
The Ammiano campaign also appeared to have given up on outreach to new voting bases in key ethnic communities, due perhaps to thinned out resources.
He met with publishers and editors of ethnic media a number of times and even "prayed for victory" in a Chinese temple.
www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/5.25/990219-ethnicvote.html   (705 words)

  
 Davis Needs Ethnic Vote in Recall Election -- So Where Is He?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In this most diverse state in the country, with millions of Latinos, Asian Americans and foreign-born citizens, many of whom voted for Davis last November, the vote of ethnic and minority communities could make or break any recall election now.
It would not be the first time the ethnic vote was key.
But Davis carried the ethnic vote, which arguably secured the governor's chair for him for a second term.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/931712/posts   (1615 words)

  
 CJNews Editorial Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Then there were the oft-repeated proclamations by Premier Lucien Bouchard that the courts had no role whatsoever to play in establishing rules for secession, that the matter of Quebec's secession from Canada fell exclusively within the political and not the legal domain.
On the subject of secession from Canada, the vote of the cultural communities in Quebec, he implies, though legally valid, is somehow morally invalid.
Its hallmark is the pre-eminence of the rule of law that itself rests on the inviolate belief: one person, one vote, all equal in measure.
www.cjnews.com /pastissues/98/sept10-98/editorial/editorial.htm   (503 words)

  
 Thursday, May 9, 1996 -- STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS (043)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With free votes it will be even more important to attempt to understand and represent the views of all constituents.
They complained that the referendum was lost due to money and the ethnic vote.
The separatists' obsession with anyone who does not have ``pure laine'', or old stock, stamped on their certificate of citizenship has invariably led them to commit enormities and, if yesterday is any indication, it is not about to change.
www.parl.gc.ca /english/hansard/043_96-05-09/043SM1E.html   (2276 words)

  
 Seeing Red
Parizeau resigned amidst controversy two days after the 1995 sovereignty referendum over statements where he blamed the electoral loss on "money and the ethnic vote." That referendum lost by a small margin, plunging the Canadian ruling class into a crisis on the question of Quebec from which it has not yet emerged.
On December 13 in comments before a Quebec government commission studying the state of the French language, Michaud singled out Jews and immigrants for their "ethnic votes" against the independence of Quebec in the 1995 referendum--essentially repeating Parizeau's infamous charges.
Michaud and others who echo his views advance their reactionary views by playing on the violation of self-determination that occurred when people other than Quebecois who live in the province were allowed to vote in the referendum.
www.seeingred.com /Copy/4.1_quebec.html   (1464 words)

  
 Canada
In the run-up to the June 1997 general election, former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau, who resigned in 1996 after his controversial remarks blaming the defeat of the 1995 referendum on 'money and the ethnic vote', revealed that he would have unilaterally declared Quebec independent within ten days had the separatists won the 1995 referendum.
The ethnic label was unwarranted: most of the thirty-one people arrested were not Jewish and no connection between the Jewish background of some of the suspects and the criminal activity was demonstrated.
At the hearing, Morton Weinfeld, chairman of the ethnic studies department at McGill University, testified that the article reinforced 'several well-known and well-documented antisemitic stereotypes' by accusing Jews 'of being dishonest and untrustworthy.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/Canada/canada.htm   (6699 words)

  
 VIGILE - POLITIQUE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was heartening to see the National Assembly yesterday unanimously condemn Yves Michaud, a prominent old-guard member of the Parti Quebecois, for his remarks about ethnic people in general and Jews in particular.
In a brazen echo of Jacques Parizeau's 1995 referendum-night scapegoating of "money and the ethnic vote," Mr.
Michaud told Quebec's estates-general on language this week that the referendum's lopsided No vote in "immigrant" suburbs like Cote St. Luc exemplified how "ethnic votes are against the sovereignty of the Quebec people." Mr.
www.vigile.net /ds-michaud/docs/15-mg.html   (384 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.