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CBC News In Depth: Liberal Party Then, in October, the Quebec wing of the federal Liberals passed a motion that called upon the party to recognize Quebec as a nation, a move that threatened to cause divisions among the front-runners. In one of his speeches, Ignatieff referred to Quebec as a "cornerstone of the Canadian federation," and made it clear that both Ottawa and Quebec each have their jurisdictions and both should be respected. Be it further resolved that the Liberal Party of Canada will create an expert task force with the mandate of reporting to the next Leader of the Party on possible ways and the appropriate timing to officialize this historical and social reality. www.cbc.ca /news/background/liberals/quebec-nationalunity.html   (2423 words)

Freedom Party International - Consent 26 - September 1996 With the Quebec referendum, our country was taken to the brink of chaos for reasons most people are only vaguely aware of. Quebec's demands are based on a false notion of what Confederation was all about and Quebec's place in that vision. During this time, Quebec politicians such as Honore Mercier and Maurice Duplessis convinced themselves that Canada was actually comprised of two distinct nations, one English-speaking and one French-speaking. www.freedomparty.org /consent/cons26_4.htm   (1468 words)

Canadian Unity Vs. Quebec Separatism If Quebec ever did separate from the rest of Canada to form their own country, they would have several problems: They would still be using Canadian money, and they would no longer be able to get extra money from the Canadian federal government during times of need. The population of Quebec is currently 7.5 million, of which 5.8 million are legal voting age, which includes roughly 1.1 million new voters from the last 10 years of immigration/younger citizens coming of age, and has lost 0.5 million older voters. Due to their name, they are the "default party" for Quebec voters, and so they enjoy popular support because they know the party is going to stand by them on issues that are important to the people of Quebec. www.lilithgallery.com /articles/2005/canadianunity.html   (1657 words)

How Others Have Viewed French Canadians and Quebec - Documents - Quebec History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The Parti Rouge, the exponent of Liberalism in the province, was identified by the rulers of the Church with the anticlerical Liberals of nineteenth century France, and repudiated as such. The change in Quebec's political allegiance after 1891 was primarily caused by the accession of Laurier, most richly endowed of French Canadian public men, to the leadership of the Liberal party. Quebec's support of the nominal Liberals is one of the anomalies, perhaps one of the misfortunes of Canadian politics. www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/docs/views/brady03.htm   (1602 words)

Passion for Quebec separatism has cooled since '95   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Nor is this a rogue ward: Throughout Quebec, support for the Bloc Quebecois, the political party that carries the separatist flag in the Canadian Parliament, seems to be slipping. Locals have criticized party leader Gilles Duceppe for his gaffes, and are put off by the obvious divisions within the separatist movement. This is not Hungary or Poland itching to escape the clutches of Moscow. www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/05/26/canada-quebec.2-0.html   (918 words)

Lessons of the 1972 Quebec General Strike In Quebec, workers were increasingly driven into the arms of their own francophone capitalists, leading to the election, with significant labour support, of the bourgeois-nationalist Parti Québécois four years later. While Quebec labour is today battling against yet another right-wing Liberal government, under Jean Charest, the PQ has shown during its repeated terms in office that it is equally a class enemy of the workers. But the ideas of the nationalist Quebec labour tops, for all their manifestos on “socialism,” led not to the “dictatorship of the proletariat” but to the rule of the nationalist union-busting PQ, who were swept to victory in 1976 and again in 1981 with a significant labour vote. www.icl-fi.org /english/spc/146/quebec.html   (2959 words)

Vive a trilingual Quebec! Before Bill 101, Quebec residents had the right to send their children to either French or English-speaking public schools, which owing to a twist in history were generally organized along religious lines. Two years later, French became the official language of Quebec but tensions continued to simmer until a full-fledged language war erupted in 1976, when the new separatist Parti Québécois, founded and led by the charismatic leader René Lévesque, won the provincial election. Quebec’s language debate stretches beyond its provincial boundaries to touch the core of Canadian identity and unity. www.unesco.org /courier/2001_07/uk/education.htm   (2015 words)

THE CEREMONY:Montreal notary and wedding officiant:Montreal weddings:Montreal marriage services:montreal civil ... Typically, at the very beginning of the ceremony before the bridal party makes its approach, mothers are asked to light the taper candles on behalf of their son and daughter. Unity candles are not indicative of any religion and are used by all faiths. For this reason the use of a unity candle, or wine sharing or the symbolic use of crystals followed by the presentation of roses to female VIPs are indispensable to a great wedding. www.mariage-quebec.net /English/the_ceremony.htm   (5365 words)

Thomson Nelson - Political Science -Canadian Politics on the Web/Quebec Sovereignty and Canadian National Unity The Parti Quebecois believes that the Court has legitimated the nationalist dream to achieve independence based on the authority of a mandate from the people of Quebec. In 1998 Quebec's Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Joseph Facal, published a document on Quebec Sovereignty and the Rule of Law in which he asserts that the Supreme Court recognized the separatists' claims. Quebec separation is not the only challenge to national unity in Canada, as there are groups dedicated to the independence of he Western provinces as well. polisci.nelson.com /quebec.html   (601 words)

PM declares Quebec nation 'within Canada' - CNN.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) While Quebecers have twice voted down referendums seeking independence from Canada, the last one -- in 1995 -- was narrowly defeated, and separatists rumblings continue in the province. The issue resurfaced when Michael Ignatieff, a front-runner for the Liberal Party leadership, said the French language, history and culture mark Quebecers as a separate people who should be recognized as a nation under the constitution. The Quebec wing of the Liberals adopted a resolution last month recognizing Quebec as a nation "within Canada" and called for the creation of a task force to advise the next leader on how to make that status official. edition.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/americas/11/23/canada.quebec.ap/index.html   (743 words)

CNN.com - Quebec Premier Bouchard resigns - January 11, 2001 QUEBEC CITY, Quebec (CNN) -- Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard resigned his post on Thursday, at the same time letting go of the reins of the separatist Parti Quebecois. Rumors of the pending resignation broke on Wednesday, when Parti Quebecois members of parliament were summoned to Quebec City for an emergency meeting on Thursday. Despite economic policies that helped turn Quebec's C$6 billion (US$4 billion) budget deficit into a surplus, Bouchard ran afoul of party hard-liners who want a stronger push for independence even though opinion polls indicate a majority of Quebecois are no longer interested in separation from Canada. edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/americas/01/11/canada.quebec.02   (404 words)

Quebec Series, 3 articles written by or in close collaboration with Ross Dowson Nationalist journals and parties sprung up, but garnering only marginal support in the period before the literally explosive period of the terrorist FLQ and the imposition of the War Measures Act by Prime Minister Trudeau. In the process, Quebec's drive for independence has lifted Canadian nationalist sentiment in English Canada into battle to question not only the erosion of Canada's sovereignty over its natural resources but also its cultural sovereignty and preservation of social programs in the face of globalization and free trade agreements. In the first major victory of Quebec in 200 years of struggle, the language bills (Bill 1 and later 101) were passed securing French as the sole language of the courts, the legislature and later in the workplace, in commerce and - most important-in education, governing the cultural direction of immigrants towards francophone society. www.rossdowson.com /quebecseries.html   (981 words)

Canadian Dimension / Articles / Quebec Rabble.ca February 7, 2006 Quebec solidaire, a new provincial political party, was formed over the weekend after more than 1,000 delegates from Option Citoyenne (OC) and Union des Forces Progressistes (UFP) merged their two parties. from Rabble.ca The founding of the new party would not have been possible or worthy of interest were it not for the backdrop of a revival of protest and dissent stretching back to the mid-1990s and speeding up early in the new century. The party is on track to win almost all of the ridings with a French-speaking majority, and possibly more than 50% of the popular vote — an electoral first for […] canadiandimension.com /articles/category/quebec   (676 words)

quebec The National Assembly's prime minister is the majority party leader (an elected member of parliament) who serves a term of five years, at the end of which time he or she must call an election. 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. Lucien Bouchard (b.1938) is the leader of the Bloc Québécois, a political party that desires the independence of Québec from Canada. cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/quebec.htm   (7499 words)

How the Quebec motion was hatched | The Agonist Quebec is already sovereign in its own sphere; for example, we have our own system of civil legislation, distinct from the rest of Canada - we also have our own school system, etc... Complaints that "Quebec Unity" is seen by the majority of Canadians as "English-only" are ill-informed, and if this is the general opinion of Quebec it is also hypocritical. Already Quebec Anglophones are being shunned in their homes by Quebec politicians who have stated that the nationhood only applies to the french, this is not a new trend. agonist.org /20061126/how_the_quebec_motion_was_hatched   (4336 words)

Arguments for Quebec separatism Quebecers must not "write off" the U.S. on that account, however, because the existence of Canada as a country separate from the United States has always been something of an annoyance to the United States, and there is a lot in Canadian-U.S. history that argues for the United States' siding with Quebec and against Canada. Quebec's economic interests lie not in artificial east-west commerce within sparsely populated Canada but in natural north-south commerce with the vastly populous regions of the United States, Mexico, and points south in the Hemisphere-wide free trade area now emerging. Quebecers should make plain to Americans that when English Canadians cozy up to the United States to try to draw the U.S. in on their side of the argument between French and English Canada, they are doing so not for U.S. interests but for anti-U.S. interests. www.expansionistparty.org /ForQCsep.html   (10332 words)

Nelson - Political Science-Canadian Politics on the Web/Quebec Sovereignty and Canadian National Unity The Quebec government responded a few days later with their own legislation, Bill 99 - An Act respecting the exercise of the fundamental rights and prerogatives of the Quebec people and the Quebec State, which declares the autonomy of the Quebec people and the National Assembly to decide their future. Quebec separation is not the only challenge to national unity in Canada, as there are groups dedicated to the independence of some of the Western provinces as well. Sovereign Injustice - Grand Council of the Crees' document argues that Quebec's separation does not take away the Crees' right to determine for themselves of which country they should be a part of. www.nelson.com /nelson/polisci/quebec.html   (711 words)

andrewcoyne.com: An opportunity for the Grits A spell in opposition, then, offers the party an opportunity: to reflect upon the lessons of the recent past, to adjust to a very different future, to reclaim its ideological inheritance as the party of Pearson and Trudeau even as it is remaking itself for an era of two- and three-party politics. The party establishment is clearly aiming for a coronation, hoping to install Frank McKenna as the heir presumptive before the party’s differences break out into the open. As the party of abolition, the Liberals could clearly differentiate themselves in the marketplace of ideas, not only from the Tories but also the NDP and the Bloc. andrewcoyne.com /2006/01/opportunity-for-grits.php   (793 words)

eG - Features - Supplement: The forgotten issue The NDP believe Quebec needs to be recognized as a diverse multi-ethnic society, and as the centre of one of two linguistic societies. The Liberals have been accused by the Alliance of trying to dare Quebec into another referendum, and while the issue of national unity may be dead, referendums themselves have taken on a new light. While national unity and Quebec separation may not be issues this election, the large number of votes going to the Bloc Quebecois do affect the end results. www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/features/stories/20001123/supp08.html   (590 words)

Freedom Party International - Consent 29 - September 1998 The use of the words 'right', 'left' or 'center' may be appropriate when describing a political party, but not the Canadian people, who look on themselves as being middle of the road. In informing the public it is essential to point the finger at a political party or parties as the creators of the problem. You cannot go far wrong by reminding the people that Quebec has always said that it was left out of this constitutional change, and that Quebec might very well be happy to see the whole Constitution Act, 1982, repealed. www.freedomparty.org /consent/cons29_2.htm   (2756 words)

[No title] The appeals for unity and to save Canada are designed to block this opportunity, at best to dribble out a few concessions which have as their purpose to preserve the undemocratic essence of the BNA Act and the entire superstructure that capitalism has built upon it. The Fathers of Confederation anticipated that the conquered nations of Quebec and the Native Peoples (Indian, Métis and Inuit) would be constrained and ultimately assimilated in the case of the former, and in the case of the latter, driven to the outer edges of the community and destroyed as an effective force. But it is Quebec and its struggle for national sovereignty that constitutes the most immediate and chief threat to the federalist strait-jacket, and the most powerful of the forces that can lead to the restructuring of this country to meet the needs of its working people in 1977-on. www.rossdowson.com /quebec1991.html   (6520 words)

Single Transferable Vote in B.C. Thirdly, there is the local campaign itself, where the party is brought into direct contact with the voter through the candidates, and the candidate employs his or her personal attributes to the full.[Marsh] A party's candidates may sometimes win enough votes to expect two seats but fail to get them because too many votes go to one candidate and the second is eliminated before those votes can be transferred, or finishes as runner-up when the first candidate has votes to spare. Candidates frequently lose to another member of their own party as opposed to being defeated by a candidate of a different party. community.netidea.com /ccbc/singletransferablevote.htm   (7485 words)

Evolutions in Québec Nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) On November 15, 1976 Québec elected a Parti Québécois (PQ) government committed to the goal of political independence.16 Following sixteen years of Liberal government under the leadership of Jean Lesage, the PQ and its leader René Lévesque continued Lesage's policies of neo-nationalism. It was with their support that Lévesque's party gained control of the government in 1976. 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. www.trincoll.edu /zines/papers/1996/quebec.html   (6048 words)

QUEBEC’S RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)   As Figure I illustrates, Quebec’s dependence on access to the U.S. market is greater than ever before, with 85 percent of all Quebec exports destined for the United States in 1999, with the figure moving as high as 88 percent in September 2000.   The Quebec government enthusiastically supports the creation of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas and believes that the addition of many Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries into a hemispheric agreement will help counterbalance the economic clout of the United States and the dominance of the English language in the northern half of the hemisphere. The government has a close cooperative relationship with the American Council of Quebec Studies, a group of university professors who host conferences every two years and who are mainly involved in the study of languages and literature. fhss.byu.edu /POLSCI/frye/fryquebecsrelations.htm   (4818 words)

Unity Eliot Church is a Community Church affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ. Any statements made and postions held in "Unity," however, are solely mine(of course, they may be used with appropriate atribution). This may have some interesting implications for Canadians in particular and for the concept of nationalism and nationhood in general. eliotunity.blogspot.com   (3327 words)

Canada and Québec: An Update Symbolic recognition of first nations is a fait accompli, but the process of creating a new level of government controlled by aboriginal people is slow and aboriginals continue to be victims of inequalities. The national unity question is still problematic: the level of support for Québec sovereignty remains high, and 51 (from among a possible 75) Bloc québécois (the Québec sovereigntist party at the federal level) Members of Parliament were elected in Québec in the January 2006 federal election. Three factors have substantially contributed to reshaping Canadian identity: increased continental economic integration, immigration, and the development of a new political culture based on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. www2.asanet.org /footnotes/mar06/indexthree.html   (2108 words)

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