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  Quebec general election, 1994 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quebec general election of 1994 was held on September 12, 1994, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada.
The Parti Québécois, led by Jacques Parizeau, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Daniel Johnson, Jr.
This election was very significant for Quebec history, because it set the stage for the 1995 Quebec referendum on independence for Quebec from Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_general_election,_1994   (187 words)

  
 Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Quebec's highest mountain is Mont D'Iberville, which is located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern part of the province.
The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec   (4300 words)

  
 Quebec general elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1994 results include the by-election held on October 24, 1994 in the Saint-Jean electoral district to break a tie in the original general election.
The 1998 results include the by-election held on December 14, 1998 in the Masson electoral district due to the death of PQ candidate Yves Blais on November 22, 1998.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Quebec_general_elections   (465 words)

  
 Quebec - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Quebec is bordered by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay to the west, the provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador to the east, the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York) to the south and Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay to the north.
Quebec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain who established the Habitation de Quebec in 1608 as a permanent fur trading outpost, where he quickly forged a trading and military alliance with Algonkian and Huron nations against the Iroquois and the British.
In 1774, fearful that the French-speaking population of Quebec would side with the rebels of the 13 colonies to the south, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act that paved the way to official recognition of the French language and French culture.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec   (3322 words)

  
 Canadian Election Law & Policies
Elections Canada also provides a number of plain English overviews of the laws and policies governing the conduct of federal elections.
The specific limits on candidates' election expenses for the 2006 election vary from riding to riding because they are based on the number of electors in a constituency.
This law was challenged during the 2000 election, by Stephen Harper when he headed up the National Citizens Coalition, on the grounds that the law is an unconstitutional limit on the freedom of expression and of the voters' rights to be fully informed of all points of view.
www.sfu.ca /~aheard/elections/laws.html   (2146 words)

  
 Action démocratique du Québec
The party was formed in 1994 by former members of the Parti libéral du Québec who left that party due to its reluctance to commit to Quebec sovereignty following the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord.
The 1998 Quebec election gave the same result as before: Dumont was the only candidate from his party to win a seat.
In the 2003 Quebec election, the ADQ lost the four seats it had gained in the by-elections, but picked up three other seats previously held by the PQ, and pulled enough votes from the PQ to give the victory to Charest's Liberals.
www.askfactmaster.com /ADQ   (479 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Quebec (pronounced or) (French: Québec, pronounced) is the largest province in Canada and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,598,100 (Statistics Canada, July 2005).
Quebec is located in eastern Canada, bordered by Ontario and Hudson Bay to the west, Atlantic Canada to the east, the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York) to the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
Fearful that the French-speaking population of Quebec would side with the rebels of the 13 other colonies to the south, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act that paved the way to official recognition of the French language and French culture.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/quebec   (3584 words)

  
 Vote in Quebec May Be Last Fling With Secession
If Quebec were to vote for secession, a complicated series of negotiations would follow to settle such questions as the province's share of the national debt and compensation for federal properties.
English-speaking Quebecers are bunched in Montreal and the Eastern Townships.
In 1994 he was hospitalized with a flesh-eating infection, to which he eventually lost a leg.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/540/canada/quebecsc.htm   (1703 words)

  
 Embassy Washington
Quebec's French culture and language have flourished in Canada, in large part because of the determination of its people to resist assimilation into the English-speaking majority, but also because the Canadian federation has provided guarantees, from its beginnings, for their language and culture.
The Quebec Act of 1774 authorized the use of French civil law (distinct from British common law) in the colony, allowed Roman Catholics to hold office, guaranteed the French seigneurial system of land ownership, and affirmed religious freedom for Quebec's Catholic majority.
The Parti Québécois took power again in Quebec in 1994 and held another referendum in October 1995 on sovereignty combined with an offer to Canada of a "new economic and political partnership." This option was narrowly defeated.
www.canadianembassy.org /government/quebec-en.asp   (1553 words)

  
 The Ultimate Action démocratique du Québec Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
The 1998 Quebec election produced the same result for the party as the 1994 election: Dumont was the only candidate from his party to win a seat.
Some analysts argue that the party's repeated backtracking on its various policies during the 1998 election campaign showing it lacked true conviction, and was the cause of its lack of support at the polls.
On September 20th, 2004, Sylvain Légaré, the ADQ candidate for the by-election in Vanier riding won the election, notably thanks to the large support of the CHOI radio station, and raised the number of ADQ MNAs to 5.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/ADQ   (651 words)

  
 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   (928 words)

  
 Eleições
Elections to the Narodno Sobranie, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, and Presidential election 1996
Elections to the Sejm, 1991, 1993, 1997, and Presidential election, 1995.
Elections to the Drzavni Zbor, 1990, 1992, 1996 and Presidential election Nov. 1997
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 Parti libéral du Québec - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Parti libéral du Québec (Liberal Party of Quebec, although it refers to itself in English as the Québec Liberal Party), or PLQ, is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Quebec.
This mirrored the situation in Ottawa, where the arrival of Wilfrid Laurier in the 1896 federal election marked the beginning of Liberal dominance at the federal level.
Since the election of April 14, 2003, the Liberals have formed the current government of Québec under Premier Jean Charest.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec_Liberal_Party   (1181 words)

  
 news1
Our general meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month from 10:00 AM to noon.
The average contribution from California utilities to a handful of select lawmakers since 1994 was tens of thousands of dollars more than the average $2,400 contribution made by utilities to legislators in other states where deregulation was being debated, according to the National Institute of Money and State Politics based in Helena, Mont.
Lobbying expenditures since 1994 total $18.6 million for the three utilities including $640,000 spent by PGand E in the first quarter of 2001 alone when the company was preparing its filing for federal bankruptcy protection and negotiating for a state bailout.
www.cleanelectionsandiego.org /summer01   (2826 words)

  
 Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Quebec scandal lassoes Matane bull column
Chretien won the leadership, of course, but in the subsequent 1993 election, federalist parties in Quebec - Liberals and the Kim Campbell-led Conservatives - were nearly erased from the map outside anglophone-tinged ridings.
Cote quit elected politics with the ailing Bourassa in 1994, before the election that brought the PQ's Jacques Parizeau to power and set the stage for a referendum the next year.
The former political giant in Quebec now finds himself ousted for life from the party that begged him for help in forbidden regions of Quebec, caught up - with certain complicity, according to Gomery - in a web of illegal campaign financing flowing from the sponsorship program.
www.tomifobia.com /black/quebec_scandal.shtml   (805 words)

  
 Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
General Elections in the Republic of Northern Cyprus, December 2003
National Electoral Committee has information in English on the Parliamentary Elections of 1995 and 1999, and the local elections of 1996, plus an overview of elections from 1989-1996.
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm   (1374 words)

  
 Evolutions in Québec Nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
French Québec was in general geographically rural, economically agrarian and socio-culturally Catholic in nature.
The logical conclusion of the PQ's policies would have to be a separatist campaign in light of the party's raison d'etre and platform in the election of 1976.
In 1994, the language of nationalism had to be adopted to fit the new realities of Québec.
www.trincoll.edu /zines/papers/1996/quebec.html   (6048 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   (368 words)

  
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During the last city election, two Democratic Coalition candidates were victorious and proved themselves a thorn in the side to Montreal's arrogant administration.
These representatives of the Association des Medicins de hors Quebec, (AMDHQ) a new organisation of physicians educated outside of Canada, are fighting to have their diplomas recognised (immigrant doctors have been forced to work as char ladies).
The Quebec Medical Association, infamous for attacking midwifery and alternative medicine, is doing its best to maintain its present monopoly and scoffs at the AMDHQ claim that the rural areas could use more doctors.
www.spunk.org /library/pubs/freedom/intnews/sp000895.txt   (989 words)

  
 quebec
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.
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.
In 1994, 59 percent of Québec's population attended the cinema, 48 percent attended a musical performance, and 18 percent went to an arts festival.
cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/quebec.htm   (7499 words)

  
 Profile: Guy Lachapelle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He is also coordinator of the Quebec Government Relations at the Rector’s office of Government and External Relations.
He was the co-chairperson of the organizing Committee for the XVIIIth World Congress of the International Political Science Association in Quebec City in the year 2000 (August 1-5, 2000).
He was elected Secretary General of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in April 1999.
www.ipsa.ca /en/about/profile.lachapelle.asp   (304 words)

  
 Quebec City : In Depth : Dateline | Frommers.com
Quebec City : In Depth : Dateline
Accounts of unsanitary hospitals, outdated equipment, and ever-lengthening delays for treatment cause mounting unease in the face of governmental demands for even greater efficiencies and cost-cutting procedures.
Follow-up polls suggest that Quebecers are once again considering separation.
www.frommers.com /destinations/quebeccity/0142020051.html   (890 words)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings
This is a mainly rural riding located north of Ottawa in the southwest of Quebec.
Appointed vice-president of Governmental Affairs at Unitel in 1994.
Appointed member of the Commission on Economic Development of the City of Hull in 1994.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/084   (989 words)

  
 Quebec Election Results
Jean Charest’s PLQ (Parti Libéral du Québec) won a majority government in the April 14 general provincial election, taking 76 seats in the 125 seat Quebec National Assembly (called so even if its really a Provincial assembly) and 46% of the popular vote.
While the election was a setback politically for the Parti Quebecois, exiting Premier Bernard Landry stated in his speech following the announcement of the results, that in a democracy the people choose, and they are always right.
If the Liberals won easy, of all the leaders, Charest was the only one to have a close personal victory, winning by only about 2,500 votes, and only had 45% of the vote.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/100125   (281 words)

  
 Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's 2001 Quebec Trivia Quiz
It was an eventful year in Quebec, one that saw the arrival of a new premier and the disappearance of dozens of municipalities, and lots of other fodder to stimulate the egg-nog sodden brain.
If Quebec were to include Labrador - which Quebec has never officially acknowledged belongs to Newfoundland, Quebec would easily top Alaska.
She had a much more convincing win in the by-election in the Champlain provincial riding in October of this year.
www.tomifobia.com /black/2001_quebecquiz.shtml   (773 words)

  
 Internet Society (ISOC) 2001 BOT Election - Candidates
With strong support from the IETF Next Generation NG -IPv6 and NG Transition Working Groups and the IPv6 Deployment group, Latif initiated the foundation of the IPv6 Forum in May 1999.
Co-Founder of the Next Generation Networks Initiative (NGNi,) funded by the European Commission to kick-off Jan 1, 2001.
Higher bandwidth availability, as in Scandinavia, the increasing importance of e-learning, and the commercialization of nanotechnological applications, will accelerate the challenges of a radically different environment for all, especially those in less-favoured nations, needs to be explained.
www.isoc.org /members/vote/2001election/candinfo.shtml   (5109 words)

  
 Being American in T.O.: US Election 2004 Archives
So ends the election in the second Anglosphere country of the coalition, and unless I was dreaming I seem to remember that Tony Blair too has called an election.
This shouldn't be a popularity contest because it's an election in a time of war that tests our national character and our ability to look beyond personal likes and dislikes to judge the candidates solely on the basis of how they will address the threat.
CNN is all a-twitter about it, but the only thing that surprised me was that he actually seems to have taken credit for the Sept. 11 attacks, which deals a severe blow to those who insisted it was Mossad, the CIA, or never even happened.
debbyestratigacos.mu.nu /archives/cat_us_election_2004.html   (13548 words)

  
 QuébecPolitique.com | General Election June 16-July 14 1871
This table was compiled starting from the political identity of each candidate presented on the website of the National Assembly of Quebec.
(2) The use of secret ballot have been introduced in 1875 in Quebec.
Thus, before the 1875 general election, there could not be "rejected ballots".
www.quebecpolitique.com /election/elect02-en.html   (171 words)

  
 Elections and Electoral Systems
Information and photos about my experience as an OSCE election observer for the 2004 Kazakhstan parliamentary elections.
Information and photos about my experience as an OSCE election observer for the 2003 Georgian parliamentary elections.
The first election under the new electoral system is on 12th October 1996.
www.ux1.eiu.edu /~cfsdr/elect.htm   (583 words)

  
 cric.ca - Le portail du Canada - Élections au Québec 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A necessary reform of the voting system - Brief presented by the Quebec Liberal Party to the Committee of Institutions of the National Assembly
Making voting system reform a priority - Brief presented by the Quebec Liberal Party to the Steering Committee for the General Consultation on the Reform of the Voting System of Quebec
True to its roots, the vision that the Action démocratique du Québec is proposing to Quebecers
www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/election_qc/elections_quebec_partis.html   (209 words)

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