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	Quebec general election, 1976 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_general_election,_1976 (515 words)

	Parti Québécois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the 1976 provincial election, the Parti Québécois was elected to form the government of Quebec with René Lévesque as its leader.
		The first PQ government, elected in 1976, was known as the "republic of teachers" for its high number of candidates teaching at the university level.
		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.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/p/pa/parti_quebecois.html (721 words)

	Quebec - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Quebec (pronounced "kwə-BECK" or "keh-BECK"; French: le Québec) is a Canadian province with a population of 7,410,504 (Statistics Canada, 2001), primarily speakers of the French language making up the bulk of the Francophone population in North America.
		Quebec is located in eastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the U.S. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York States) to the south, and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
		The provincial bird of Quebec is the snowy owl.
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	Encyclopedia: Quebec general election, 1976
		The Quebec general election on June 22, 1960 was one of the most significant elections in Quebec history, rivaled perhaps only by the 1976 general election.
		Quebec The Quebec sovereignty movement is a movement calling for the attainment of sovereignty for Quebec, a province of the country of Canada.
		The 1980 Quebec referendum was the first referendum in Quebec that put to public vote the role of Quebec within Canada and whether Quebec should pursue a path toward independent statehood (sovereignty).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Quebec-general-election,-1976 (1066 words)

	Liberal Party of Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/liberal_party_of_quebec.html (1032 words)

	Parti Québécois - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the 1976 provincial election, the Parti Québécois was elected to form the government of Quebec.
		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.
		Bouchard resigned in 2001, and was succeeded as PQ leader and Quebec premier by Bernard Landry, a former PQ Finance minister.
	open-encyclopedia.com /PQ (772 words)

	Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Quebec (pronounced "kweh-BECK" or "keh-BECK"; French: le Québec) is a Canadian province with a population of 7,410,504 (Statistics Canada, 2001), primarily speakers of the French language making up the bulk of the Francophone population in North America.
		Until 1968, the Quebec parliament was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly.
		The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
	usapedia.com /q/quebec.html (2121 words)

	QUEBEC GENERAL ELECTION, 1976 FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Quebec general election of 1976 was held on November_15, 1976 to elect members to National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
		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.
		It is possible that he may have counted on a boost from his successful rescue of the 1976_Summer_Olympics in Montreal after cost overruns and construction delays by the Montreal municipal government of Mayor Jean_Drapeau.
	www.witwib.com /Quebec_general_election,_1976 (473 words)

	Union Nationale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Union Nationale was strongly aligned with the clergy in the province, and dominated Quebec politics during the Duplessis years using repressive measures such as the Padlock Law to suppress opposition and particularly the trade unions.
		Mounting demands for Quebec's independence from Canada had resulted in the nationalist vote moving towards the new separatist Parti Quebecois, winner of the 1976 election.
		Following his failure to win election to the National Assembly, he resigned as leader, and returned to federal Parliament as a PC MP by winning a federal by-election that was called as a result of his resignation.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Union_Nationale (723 words)

	Articles - Quebec sovereignty movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the 1976 election, the PQ won 71 seats -- a majority in the National Assembly -- 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 federalist nationalists think that the Quebec people should be recognized as a de facto nation by the federal government of Canada and initiate the constitutional reforms that presuppose such a recognition.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Quebec_sovereignty (3094 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Canada - Elections to the House of Commons
		The 38th general election was called in May 2004 by Prime Minister Paul Martin, a former Finance Minister who was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Party in November 2003 and who has been in office since December 2003, when Jean Chrétien stepped down after ten years as head of government.
		Although both the government and the National Assembly of Quebec rejected the agreements under which the Canada Act was passed and denounced the political legitimacy of the Constitution Act, 1982, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the province was legally bound by the Act.
		Between 1962 and 1980, eight federal elections were held in Canada, five of which (1962, 1963, 1965, 1972 and 1979) resulted in minority governments, as no party won an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons.
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	CBC News Indepth: Parti Quebecois
		René Lévesque quits the Quebec Liberal party along with a few hundred others after his proposal for a sovereign Quebec associated with Canada is rejected at the party convention.
		In the provincial election, a collapse of support for two other Quebec parties, the Parti créditiste and the Union Nationale, allows the PQ to become the opposition with just six seats.
		Quebec invokes the notwithstanding clause to override the Supreme Court and passes Bill 178, which reaffirms French as the only language for outdoor signs, but allows other languages indoors.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/parti_quebecois (776 words)

	Parti_Quebecois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Quebec general election, 1976 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was one of the most significant elections in Quebec history, rivalled only by the (Click link for more info and facts about 1960 general election) 1960 general election.
		The bill was withdrawn and significantly altered, however, and was eventually re-introduced as "Bill 101" (or la Loi 101 in French), also known as the (Click link for more info and facts about Charter of the French Language) Charter of the French Language.
		The 1976 election also set the stage for the (Click link for more info and facts about 1980 Quebec referendum) 1980 Quebec referendum on the PQ's proposal for political independence in an economic union with the rest of Canada called (Click link for more info and facts about sovereignty-association) sovereignty-association.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/Q/Qu/Quebec_general_election,_1976.htm (537 words)

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		The President of France, General De Gaulle came to Quebec in 1967 and gave speeches to separatist groups that deemed him an enthusiast of the thoughts of the separatists in the struggle to fight for the liberation of Quebec.
		Quebec Nationalists wanted an independent state so that they could have full control over their territory.
		Quebec was not the only Province that wanted more political power for themselves.
	www.essaycity.com /free_essays/00173.txt (863 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Joe Clark
		Clark became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976 and was the first Conservative to head a Canadian government since the defeat of John Diefenbaker in 1963.
		At the Conservative Party convention in 1976 Clark was a compromise English-speaking candidate.
		Trudeau postponed elections as long as he could, but in 1979, with Parliament's term due to expire, he was forced to dissolve it and call a new election.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761575253__1/Joe_Clark.html (969 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		Its paramount political problem continues to be the relationship of the province of Quebec, with its French-speaking residents and unique culture, to the remainder of the country.
		Democratic elections in 1974 and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy; Greece joined the European Community or EC in 1981 (which became the EU in 1992).
		The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but are viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	René Lévesque - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		René Lévesque (1922-November 1, 1987), a politician in Canada, was the founder of the Parti Québécois, and was the premier of the province of Quebec from 1976 to 1985.
		Born in New Carlisle, Quebec[?], Lévesque was first a journalist associated with the CBC as news manager and host of a weekly television news program.
		Lévesque conceded defeat in the May 1980 referendum, yet he still remains as an important figure in the French nationalist movement in Quebec and as sovereignty's spiritual father to the separatists.
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	List of Quebec general elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 63 Liberal seats include the May 27 1912 election of Gustave Lemieux by acclamation in Gaspé and the July 15 1912 election of Joseph-Édouard Caron in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
		A by-election was not held in Kamouraska until February 11 1869 (won by the Conservatives).
		Note: Pierre-Alexis Tremblay was elected unopposed in Chicoutimi-Saguenay electoral district as an independent; however by the 1871 election he ran as a Liberal.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-Quebec-general-elections.htm (339 words)

	quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Annual generation of solid wastes is about 5.4 million tons, or 0.8 tons per person; Québec produces about 22.2 percent of Canada's hazardous waste.
		Women in Québec were not permitted to vote again until 1918 for federal elections and 1940 for provincial elections.
		The most recent general election was held on 1 December 1998, in which the separatist Parti Québécois won 75 of the legislature's 125 seats, while the anti-separatist Quebec Liberal Party won 48.
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	Timeline 1976
		1976 Jul 4, Jonathan Netanyahu, brother of Benjamin, led and was killed in an Israeli raid called Operation Thunderball that rescued the [105] hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
		1976 Aug 22, EPA scientists reported that they had discovered plutonium in the ocean sediment off the SF coast and radioactive cesium leaking from containers 120 miles east of Ocean City, Md. Some 62,000 steel drums of nuclear waste were dumped into the oceans from 1946-1970.
		1976 A 41-foot "Trowel I" was constructed for the Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands by Claes Oldenburg.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1976.HTML (9054 words)

	Virtual Jewish History Tour - Montreal, Quebec
		Aaron Hart, a commissary officer under General Amherst during the British attack on Montreal in 1760, was the first Jewish settler in the same year.
		During the America Revolution from 1775 to 1781, the majority of Jews living in Quebec took the side of the British in the conflict, despite family connections in the colonies.
		Under the act, the Jewish communities of Montreal, Quebec, and Trois Rivieres were allowed to own land slated for the construction of a synagogue and cemetery.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Quebec.html (953 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)

	Mapleleafweb.com: Voter Almanac - Quebec Provincial Election Information
		In December 1998, he was elected to the Quebec National Assembly and became leader of the Official Opposition.
		In April 2003 the Liberal Party of Quebec defeated the PQ and Mr.
		In 1988, he was elected to the executive of the youth commission of the Quebec Liberal Party.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /election/quick/qb.html (360 words)

	Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Collège de Maisonneuve for CÉGEP (Collège d’enseignement general et professionnel), an intermediate stage between secondary school and the undergraduate degree, choosing to study social science and humanities for my Diplôme d’études collégiales (DEC).
		Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA for my undergraduate degree: I had attended Berklee’s Summer Guitar Sessions in 1994 and had fallen in love with the school and its tradition of outstanding musicianship.
		The academic year that followed my election was one spent on skipping too many classes and spending too many sleepless nights.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/mfb24/bio.htm (1065 words)

	CBC Montreal Matters - Biographies
		She began work in Quebec the month that Robert Bourassa launched his 1989 re-election bid, and she has covered every federal and provincial election campaign in Quebec since then.
		She has covered the arts for local, regional, and national programs on the CBC and was the host of CBC's Arttalks in Quebec for many years.
		For more than 25 years he has covered all the major political events in Quebec from the election of the Parti Quebecois in 1976 to the 1995 referendum and the reelection of the PQ government in 1998.
	www.cbc.ca /montrealmatters/2002/main/biographies.html (1420 words)

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