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	Quebec general election, 1994 - Biocrawler
		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.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Quebec_general_election%2C_1994 (164 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 varied from riding to riding because they were 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 (2312 words)

	Quebec general election, 1966 - Definition, explanation
		The Quebec general election of 1966 was held on June 5, 1966, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada.
		In terms of the number of seats won, the election was one of the closest in recent history, with the UN winning 56 seats to the Liberal's 50.
		Generally, Quebec's first past the post electoral system tends to produce strong disparities in the number of seats won even if the popular vote is fairly close.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/q/qu/quebec_general_election__1966.php (354 words)

	1939 Quebec election
		The Quebec general election of 1939 was held on October 25, 1939 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
		The Quebec Liberal Party, led by former premier Adélard Godbout, defeated the incumbent Union Nationale, led by Maurice Duplessis.
		The Action libérale nationale, which had won 25 seats in the 1935 election and then merged with the Quebec Conservative Party, was re-formed by Paul Gouin, who had split with Duplessis soon after the formation of the Union Nationale.
	www.travel-tatil.com /information/1939_Quebec_election (161 words)

	Quebec general election, 1970 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Quebec general election of 1970 was held on April 29, 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
		The Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, defeated the incumbent Union Nationale, led by Jean-Jacques Bertrand.
		Only a few months after the election, Quebec faced a severe test with the October Crisis, in which Liberal cabinet minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped and assassinated by the Front de Liberation du Quebec, a violent pro-independence group.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1970_Quebec_election (256 words)

	Quebec
		Quebec's network of rivers and lakes may be grouped into two major drainage systems, one trending east via the St Lawrence to the Atlantic Ocean and the other west, north, and east into James Bay, Hudson Bay, and Ungava Bay.
		Quebec is represented in the Canadian Parliament by 24 senators, appointed by the Canadian governor-general in council, and by 75 members of the House of Commons, popularly elected to terms of up to five years.
		In the elections of 1970 and 1973 the Liberals under Robert Bourassa defeated the Union Nationale and the PQ largely by opposing separatism.
	www.angelfire.com /country/t2canada/provinces/Quebec.htm (3015 words)

	Close elections Summary
		Saskatchewan general election, 1999 NDP 29, Sask 25, Lib 4
		Saskatchewan general election, 2003 NDP 30, Sask 28
		Due to the electoral college, elections where the electoral vote was decided by a large margin could easily be reversed by the shifting of swing states.
	www.bookrags.com /Close_elections (975 words)

	Quebec - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Following a provincial election, the lieutenant governor calls upon the leader of the political party with the greatest number of elected members in the legislature to become the premier and to form a government.
		The premier generally selects the cabinet ministers from among his or her own party.
		A general election is held every five years, or at shorter intervals if the lieutenant governor, at the request of the premier, dissolves the assembly before then.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761551789___36/Quebec.html (1736 words)

	2003 Quebec General Election \| Mapleleafweb.com
		The previous Quebec general election was held in 1998, in which the Parti Québécois won a majority government, with 76 of 125 seats in the provincial legislative assembly.
		Between the general elections of 1998 and 2003, 12 by-elections were held.
		The three major parties in the 2003 general election are the Parti Québécois, the Quebec Liberal Party, and the Action démocratique du Québec.
	www.mapleleafweb.com /features/2003-quebec-general-election (1268 words)

	Canada Election 2004 Voter Guide: Political Parties - Bloc Québécois
		The process is consolidated in a society, where participation by all Quebecers is guaranteed and where immigrants and members of cultural communities find their place and are recognized as full members of the communal, social and political life of a pluralistic francophone society.
		Although the Quebec government acknowledges the fact that Quebec is multi-ethnic, it favours a policy of cultural convergence in one common culture, fortified by foreign sources''.
		In the federal general election of 1997, the BQ under Duceppe won only 44 seats, losing its Opposition status to the Alberta-based Reform Party of Canada (led by Preston Manning, son of longstanding former Alberta Premier Ernest Manning, whose Social Credit Party of Alberta remained in power there for decades).
	www.mondopolitico.com /elections/canada2004/parties/bq.htm (919 words)

	Quebec
		Quebec, then called Canada, formed part of the colonial empire of New France until the Seven Years' War, when it was conquered by Great Britain; the 1763 Treaty of Paris formally transferred the colony to British possession.
		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.
	www.photonicsknowledge.com /search/Quebec (4917 words)

	Canadian Dimension / Articles / Québec solidaire adopts a program for government (Richard Fidler)
		The UFP was a coalition of the political left that developed amidst the unitary dynamic of the “altermondialiste” global justice mobilizations of trade-unionists and youth that peaked in Quebec City in 2001 and the massive antiwar movement that mobilized up to a quarter million in a march against the Iraq war in February 2003.
		The election platform’s position on the national question is centered on the proposal for a specially elected assembly to lead a vast public consultation and discussion on Quebec’s political and constitutional status and draw up a proposed constitution for a sovereign Quebec.
		A sovereign Quebec was inserted as a specific goal on the eve of the congress, in response to numerous amendments to that effect from local associations.
	canadiandimension.com /articles/2006/12/11/754 (4095 words)

	Quebec general election, 1976 - Definition, explanation
		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.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/q/qu/quebec_general_election__1976.php (543 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Quebec general election, 1936
		The Quebec general election of 1936 was held on August 17, 1936 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
		After losing the subsequent 1939 election, he later won four more general elections in a row, and became the dominant politician of his time.
		It was also the Union Nationale's first election, having been formed from a merger between the Action libérale nationale and the Quebec Conservative Party.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/1936_Quebec_election (238 words)

	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.
		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 QuГ©bec under Premier Jean Charest.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Quebec_Liberal_Party (1189 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		The object of the communication is to vindicate their right to vote in the Quebec provincial general elections held on 13 April 1981 and to ensure that prisoners can exercise their right to vote in any elections which may be held in the future, whether federal or provincial.
		The Director General of Elections of Quebec therefore contacted the Solicitor General's Office suggesting the conclusion of an administrative agreement concerning the voting of inmates of federal penitentiaries in the province of Quebec.
		They submit that, after the elections, in the state of the law as it was before the adoption of section 3 of the Constitution Act of 1982, an action for a declaratory judgement did not constitute an effective and sufficient domestic remedy ensuring respect for their right to vote.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/undocs/session40/113-1981.htm (3278 words)

	Vigile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While voter turnout plummeted by almost half from the 2003 general election, to only 32 per cent, the Liberals at least managed to hold onto almost all their vote share in the riding.
		And in a by-election, voters were free to send a message by casting votes for third parties or simply abstaining, without having to worry about which party will form the government for the next four years.
		And a general election is usually a plebiscite on the incumbent.
	www.vigile.net /spip/article892.html (696 words)

	Canadian Dimension / Articles / Quebec
		The results of the Quebec election open the door for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to act on a proposal he made a few days before Quebeckers voted that has fateful, long-term implications.
		Monday’s election sealed what has become apparent in recent months: Quebec has reached its “Mike Harris moment”, the victory of neoliberalism in the political and ideological spheres.
		Quebec’s minister of intergovernmental affairs, Benoît Pelletier, expressed the hope that this recognition be translated into changes in the Canadian Constitution.
	canadiandimension.com /articles/category/quebec (578 words)

	Quebec general election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Quebec general election of 2003 was held on April 14, 2003, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec (Canada).
		This was the first general election for the new left-wing Union des forces progressistes.
		Quebec's income taxes are the highest in North America, but its social programs are also relatively generous, and the gap between rich and poor is the lowest of the North American continent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_Quebec_election (2033 words)

	CNN - Canadian separatist party wins Quebec election - December 1, 1998
		MONTREAL (CNN) -- Lucien Bouchard and his separatist Parti Quebecois were returned to power in Monday's provincial general election in Quebec but results showed Tuesday that Bouchard's independence cause enjoyed only lackluster support.
		The separatists, whose backing comes almost entirely from Quebec's French-speaking majority, are competitive in a much larger number of districts spread across the province.
		He said he would work toward creating "the conditions for a winning referendum for the sovereignty of Quebec," the vague term he used in his campaign without specifying a deadline.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9812/01/quebec.01/index.html (563 words)

	Canada, Sinclair v. Quebec (Attorney General) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Constitutional law -- Language guarantees -- Instruments of legislative nature -- Quebec legislation amalgamating two cities -- Legislative process divided into a series of discrete steps -- Whether all instruments, from ministerial order postponing municipal elections to notification of the issuance of letters patent for new city, must comply with s.
		133 of the Constitution Act, 1867 but the order postponing the election in Rouyn, the order issued in lieu of a draft agreement, the order in council ordering the issuance of letters patent for the new city, the letters patent themselves and the notice of issuance of the letters patent were printed in French only.
		The National Assembly of Quebec has attempted to divide the legislative process into a number of discrete steps, and then to claim that each of these individual steps, considered in isolation, lacks a legislative character.
	www.hrcr.org /safrica/cultural_religious/sinclair_quebec.html (601 words)

	Green Left - CANADA: Quebec's new united left party
		Although none were elected in Quebec's first-past-the-post system, UFP candidates won an average of almost 2% of the vote in the electorates the party contested, and as high as 18% in one.
		The PDS — a radical remnant of the Quebec wing of the New Democratic Party, Canada's labour party, and which included Gauche Socialiste, the Fourth International section in Quebec — is now the “Quebec Socialiste” entity.
		During the Quebec election, the UFP signed a non-aggression pact with the Parti Vert (Green Party) although half the PV's 36 candidates ran in electorates contested by the UFP.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2003/565/29042 (1652 words)

	NDP \| Our History
		Douglas was defeated in the federal election of 1962, due largely to a doctors’ led backlash at the time against the Saskatchewan NDP government's introduction of Medicare.
		She was first elected to the House of Commons for the Yukon in a by-election in 1987 and re-elected in the general elections of 1988 and 1993.
		In the federal general election of June 2, 1997, McDonough and 20 other New Democrats were elected Members of Parliament, including six, the largest number ever, from Nova Scotia and, for the first time, two from New Brunswick.
	www.ndp.ca /ourhistory (2052 words)

	History in the making - Quebec Elections, 1960-2007 - CBC Archives
		He calls a general election for Nov. 15 in a televised speech carried by CBC Television.
		Bourassa's early election call would turn out be the worst mistake of his political career.
		Lévesque says the early election call is proof that Bourassa has lost the ability to govern Quebec.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-651-3574/politics_economy/quebec_elections/clip6 (368 words)

	Quebec general election, 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Quebec general election of 1998 was held on November 30, 1998, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada.
		After the narrow defeat of the PQ's proposal for political independence for Quebec in an economic union with the rest of Canada in the 1995 Quebec referendum, PQ leader Jacques Parizeau resigned.
		In terms of the number of seats won by each of the two parties, the result was almost identical to the previous 1994 general election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_general_election,_1998 (277 words)

	CNN.com - Date set for weighty Quebec election - Mar. 13, 2003
		Quebecers will head to the polls April 14 in a three-way election battle that could signal a seismic shift in the province's model of government and chart a new course for the sovereignty movement.
		Landry promised to continue arguing the merits of independence, while also focusing his campaign on Quebec's strong economy and his party's socially progressive policy.
		The election will pit the PQ against the Opposition Liberals and the Action democratique du Quebec in what could turn out to be an exciting three-way battle.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/03/13/quebec.vote.ap/index.html (282 words)

	Quebec election set for March 26
		Quebec's new Opposition Leader Mario Dumont said he wants stability at the national assembly and pledged to work with the Liberal minority government on a case-by-case basis.
		Stephen Harper says voters in the Quebec election have used their ballots to reject calls for another referendum in a "great result" for Canada.
		Quebecers are waking up to a minority Liberal government — the first minority in the province in 130 years — and a new official Opposition.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/quebecvotes2007/story/2007/02/21/charest-election-070221.html?ref=rss (1397 words)

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Quick Guide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After the party's decimation in that year's election (they were reduced to 2 seats), he became leader.
		He had to resign his first cabinet post, minister of state for fitness and amateur sport, in 1990, after inexplicably calling a Quebec superior court judge inquiring on the case of a coach suing for reinstatement to the national team.
		He was acclaimed Quebec Liberal leader in March, 1998, after being pressured to replace Daniel Johnson, but lost the provincial election that year to Bouchard, the then-PQ premier.
	www.cric.ca /en_html/guide/provinc_elections/quebec_elec.html (783 words)

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