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	Parti libéral du Québec - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
		Charest is a former federal Progressive Conservative cabinet minister and leader, who still holds to the ideals of his former party.
		Under the leadership of Charest, the Liberals have moved to the right as former supporters of the federal Conservatives during the Brian Mulroney years gain prominent positions in the Liberal party under Charest's leadership.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec_Liberal_Party (1181 words)

	(via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Opposition wasn't on Charest's mind Thursday as he confirmed a transition team was set up a year ago to prepare for a possible Liberal government.
		Charest also produced government documents to prove the Liberals could pay for their campaign promises if elected.
		Charest identified $3 billion that could be recouped through better management of such things as tax credits and reallocation of budgets.
	www.ctv.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /servlet/ArticleNews/scfcn/CTVNews/20030403/quebec_election_charest_030403/Canada (674 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Liberals Would Increase Cultural-community Representation: Charest
		Mr Charest added that the figure was higher during the last Liberal government.
		Mr Charest further added that the province’s cultural communities would be informed of job openings in the public sector, in part by advertisements published in cultural newspapers.
		Mr Charest also recounted the story of Caroline Coulombe, a Quebec entrepreneur of African-American origin, who co-founded the Nacara cosmetics firm that will be traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange in forthcoming months.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /032003/charest.htm (737 words)

	Socialist Worker / www.socialist.ca
		Charest plans to weaken the union movement and make contracting out easier, increase daycare fees and the cost of electricity, implement workfare programs and completely reorganize healthcare, all in the name of efficiency and tax reductions.
		These leaders are the ones demobilizing, while a large section of their base is ready to fight, and the vast majority of the population is so against Charest that a strike is likely to enjoy very wide support.
		Also, in these negotiations, the government is unlikely to make any significant concessions without mass mobilization, and at some point, even the most conservative bureaucrats need to justify their existence by winning something, especially in a favorable political context.
	www.web.net /~sworker/En/SW2004/418-11-Quebec.html (874 words)

	2005 Quebec student strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Part of the popular opposition to the Charest government, it was led by students of CEGEPs and universities of Quebec, on strike to protest budget cuts of $103 million in the Grants and Loans program.
		On April 2, the student federations and the government reached an agreement that was still left to be voted on by the individual student associations during the week.
		The Parti Québécois Official Opposition MNAs, to signify their own opposition and relay the voice of the students and citizens, had adopted this symbol in chamber.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2005_Quebec_student_strike (880 words)

	The Canadian National Newspaper: Quebec Premier Charest's Mockery of Democracy
		A summary of their findings, distributed to residents eligible to participate in the two-step demerger consultation, made it clear that demerger would not yield a return to pre-merger status and that the powers of demerged cities would be much narrower than they were prior to the forced mergers.
		Put succinctly, the government scheme made it costly merely to call for a referendum which, in the event, would require an extraordinarily high voter turnout, given traditional citizen indifference to local matters.
		Charest himself, while refraining from campaigning, made known his intention to vote against the demerger in the Montreal borough of Westmount where he resides (arranging, however, to do so in an advance poll, away from the glare of media attention).
	www.agoracosmopolitan.com /home/News/2006/03/06/01144.html (1270 words)

	Index Ch
		25, 1951, Taipei, Taiwan), chairman of the government of Jiangsu (1933-37).
		3, 1954, Taiwan), chairman of the government of Guangdong (1931).
		June 18, 1950, Taiwan), civil governor (1926-27) and chairman of the government (1948-49) of Zhejiang, chairman of the government of Fujian (1933-41), and governor of Taiwan (1945-47).
	www.rulers.org /indexc2.html (19340 words)

	CNN.com - Liberals take lead in Quebec campaign - Apr. 6, 2003
		Entering the final stages of the campaign for the April 14 vote, Charest, 44, was buoyed by his performance in last Monday's leaders debate and by surveys showing him ahead of Premier Bernard Landry, 66, and the Parti Quebecois.
		Charest, who was leader of Canada's federal Conservative Party before jumping into Quebec's political scene in the spring of 1998, has been hammering all week that a vote for the Action Democratique is a vote for the Parti Quebecois.
		Charest has also been pushing the view that the Parti Quebecois, after two terms in office, is old and tired.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/04/06/quebec.elections.reut/index.html (694 words)

	Canada Government Information
		Harper’s government is in a minority position in the House of Commons, however, and has a slimmer minority than was enjoyed by the preceding Liberal government.
		The Federal Government, which had been led by the Liberal Party from 1993 until February 2006, has ceded some power in a few areas of provincial jurisdiction, while seeking to strengthen the federal role in many other areas such as inter-provincial trade and the regulation of securities.
		The election in April 2003 of Premier Jean Charest and the Liberal Party of Quebec to govern Canada’s second most populous province was a significant victory for the federal government, which over the years has struggled, under the threat of secession, to accommodate the aspirations of the French-speaking province.
	www.traveldocs.com /ca/govern.htm (1128 words)

	Station Information - Current events
		A Malaysian opposition website is shut down by its British web-hosting company amid claims of "political censorship" from the opposition.
		The strike was called in opposition to the Charest government's policies.
		The Iraq Interim Governing Council announces the creation of a war crimes tribunal, to prosecute crimes against humanity committed under the Ba'ath Party régime (14 July 1968 to 1 May 2003).
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/c/cu/current_events_1.html (6523 words)

	Defending Quebec's Interests. Which Interests are those Mssr. Duccepe? : IMC Maritimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Charest when leader of the federal PC's said; "Alberta sets the agenda for the rest of Canada".
		He has taken a page from the neo-liberal bible; Reinventing Government, (How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector, by David Osborne and Ted Gaebler), and has made clear that his agenda for Quebec is to have a revolution.
		Duccepe is a sovereigntist as is his party, so he proudly proclaims that his sole function in the Canadian State is to be in opposition to the federalist government and parties.
	maritimes.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=7976 (819 words)

	Quebec: government funding of private schools provokes public outcry
		For their part, the corporate media and the two opposition parties attacked Jean Charest and his government for having made the funding decision without any prior consultation, and then failing to explain it to the public.
		Because the working class opposition to Charest has not found an independent and conscious political expression, Quebec’s elite have been able to contain and defect it, even manipulate it to their profit.
		For Dubuc, the Charest government has not been “up to the reforms that it promised.” Noting that an opposition movement has “crystallized” against the government’s plans, Dubuc says he is prepared to give the Liberals a second chance.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/feb2005/queb-f23.shtml (1229 words)

	Jean Charest Menu
		The Charest government is ordering the construction of a new round of hydro dams and wind farms with the hope of dramatically increasing energy exports.
		Jean Charest's Liberal government was on the defensive Saturday after his party's youth wing demanded it tackle the province's $117-billion debt in the name of future generations.
		Charest said his government is giving communities the opportunity to uphold the current megacities or to demerge them.
	www.wednesday-night.com /JeanCharest.htm (1215 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Wither Jean Charest column
		The other is that the Charest regime's out-of-the-blocks drive to streamline Quebec's bloated bureaucracy and apply sound business principles to government has alienated and alarmed many special interest groups, notably the phalanx of unions.
		With a 65 percent dissatisfaction rate, the Charest government would seem to have nowhere to go but up with three years remaining in the current mandate.
		In that regard, the government's sweeping review of its operations is due out in the coming weeks, one of the key components in Charest's plan to "modernize" the Quebec state.
	www.tomifobia.com /black/wither_charest.shtml (652 words)

	Canadian Dimension / Articles » Quebec government adopts draconian law against half-million public sector ...
		The provincial Liberal government has allotted just C$450 million to eliminating gender discrimination, a fraction of the amount required for genuine wage equity as mandated by a 1996 law and reiterated by a 2004 ruling of Quebec’s highest court.
		The government fears that the union bureaucracy cannot indefinitely contain the mounting anger of public-sector workers with bombast and impotent protests.
		Even the corporate media had to admit that the majority of the public sided with the public-sector workers against the Charest government and were supportive of their demands for greater funding for public services.
	canadiandimension.com /articles/2006/01/02/260 (1503 words)

	Jean Charest at Wednesday-Night
		Charest said in his first speech to the national assembly in Quebec City that his government will reduce the size of the provincial government, which costs almost 40 per cent more than the one in the neighbouring province of Ontario.
		Under a liberal government, the municipalities could decide themselves of their priorities in the matter of transportation, of culture and of economical development, supported Friday the boss on the part liberal of the Quebec, John Charest, at the time of an encounter with the team éditoriale the newspaper The Tribune.
		Charest said reducing the size of government can be accomplished with minimal pain because many civil servants plan to retire in the coming years.
	www.wednesday-night.com /J-Charest.htm (4811 words)

	Quebec general election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Charest's reminder of the spoiler effect is said to have been partly responsible for his victory on election day.
		The PQ government was criticized by the two other major parties for being too interventionist, maintaining an overly large government, and for practising statism.
		Charest argued that the co-operative approach of a federalist party like the PLQ would be more effective solving the problem.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Quebec_general_election,_2003 (2036 words)

	Quebec: Student strikes exemplify mounting social discontent
		This was in keeping with the government’s efforts to reassure big business that it has not lost its nerve in the face of the popular opposition to its right-wing policies.
		But it believes that the Charest government is choosing the wrong battles and thereby unnecessarily contributing to a “radicalization” that makes it more difficult to raze what remains of the welfare state.
		In this instance, the corporate media believes the government should be laying the groundwork for scrapping the freeze on university tuition fees, rather than fanning popular opposition by imposing a measure that so clearly penalizes the poorest sections of society.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/mar2005/queb-m15.shtml (1074 words)

	Gregory Albo, "Harperism: The First Three Months"
		This is far from the neoliberalism-lite of the Chretien government by which Canada differentiated itself from the hard right developments in the U.S. Set against a forceful and an already staggeringly arrogant Conservative Government, the Opposition benches in the House of Commons look inept and desultory.
		In parallel with the U.S. example, opposition to the war in Canada is being characterized by Harper and the military brass as disloyalty to Canada.
		Similarly, the withdrawal by the Conservatives from daycare funding agreements announced by the previous government to advance their market-based approach is sparking a concerted campaign of opposition.
	mrzine.monthlyreview.org /albo250406.html (1735 words)

	The Marxist-Leninist Daily
		In conjunction with this, the Charest government is entirely dedicated to safeguarding "monopoly right" to the detriment of the entire population, which is losing its very means of subsistence, as is the case each time a plant closes because a monopoly has decided to move its production elsewhere.
		The intensification of resistance and opposition to the Charest agenda, practically speaking means the affirmation that Quebec belongs to all Quebeckers, that only the working class has an interest in defending Quebec within the framework of the interests of all: its resources, its wealth, its healthcare and education system, its social and natural environment.
		This explains why the opposition in the National Assembly did not fully "take on" the government this fall as to the reasons behind its actions: this could have brought to light their own action when they were in power.
	www.cpcml.ca /Tmld2004/D34060.htm (6110 words)

	The Bloc Québécois: populism and nationalism in the service of the Québec bourgeoisie
		But support for Jean Charest’s provincial Liberal government melted away like snow in the sun after it became clear that he wanted to go much further with privatizations, the reduction of social and public services and tax cuts for the rich than had his PQ predecessors.
		That the BQ and the PQ were able to benefit from popular opposition to the Charest government and its “reengineering of the State” was far from automatic or inevitable.
		In December, Boisclair announced that if the PQ were to form the government after the next election, it would not reopen the wage-cutting and concessionary 7-year collective agreements the Charest government had just imposed on 500,000 public sector employees by decree.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/jan2006/bq-j18.shtml (1822 words)

	NORMAN'S SPECTATOR
		Rather than seeking opposition support for its measures on a case-by-case basis, the government is encouraging the opposition parties to engage in U.S.-style legislative log-rolling.
		Goaded by the media and the opposition, it was entirely predictable that Jean Charest's government would expect a similar deal in municipal affairs and childcare.
		No one should be surprised either that Premier Charest has seized the opportunity to make Quebec's long-sought gains in international affairs — reaching beyond cultural institutions such as UNESCO to include conducting relations with Mexico in the company of the Prime Minister of France.
	members.shaw.ca /nspector3/globe98.htm (760 words)

	CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: Opposition to privatization of Que. park could hurt Charest Liberals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Premier Jean Charest's government is facing mounting opposition to proposed legislation aimed at allowing condominium development in parts of the provincial park, which is near Sherbrooke.
		But for a government already trailing the PQ badly in most opinion polls, the controversy surrounding Mont-Orford gives more ammunition to critics who say Charest is out of touch with voters.
		It will also reinforce the view that Charest is pushing the Quebec Liberals further to the right ahead of the next provincial election, expected to be called sometime in 2007.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/2006/04/22/pf-1546129.html (487 words)

	Revolutionary Moderation
		It's exciting that in the wake of an election that opposition parties and international observers charitably described as "grotesquely fixed" (warning: not a direct quote, just a summary), the people of Georgia have stood up to say, Geez, you know, we tried the whole totalitarian thing, and we didn't enjoy it so much.
		Charest went into Quebec politics because he correctly felt that taking over the Quebec Liberal party would be good for the country.
		But aboriginal children in Saskatchewan are born into a particularly punitive social environment, where they are tagged and tracked by race by the government, because everything from their taxes to their welfare cheques depends on it.
	www.revmod.ca /2003_11_01_revmod (6402 words)

	Disinformation
		Guided by objectives of short-term efficiency such as a "Zero Deficit," successive governments, since the wild days of Mulroney, have fundamentally transformed various social institutions of Québec which have existed for many a decade.
		With the voices of conservative leaders Lucien Bouchard and Jean Charest, both the Parti Québécois and the Liberal Party have established policies which have progressively marginalized hard-won social establishments.
		Within the context of contestable budget cuts, the Charest government has imposed a reform, the ultimate effects which will set our educational system securely in the hands of corporate interests.
	www.disinfo.com /site/printarticle10638.html (1133 words)

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