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Apr 29, 2014 · On April 7, 2014, Québec voters chose to elect a majority Liberal government, and handed the pro-independence Parti Québécois (PQ) its worst defeat ever. Since then, speculation has surfaced about the future of the Québec independence movement. In his first post-election press conference, Québec’s new premier, Philippe Couillard, struck ...
Oct 2, 2022 · In Monday’s election, residents of a town that was once a stronghold of the independence movement are expected to back the province’s popular premier, who has embraced a nationalism based on ...
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- Provincial Government Structure
- Duplessis and Godbout: 1936-1959
- Charest, Marois, Couillard and Legault: 2005-2018
- Legault: 2018-
The National Assemblyof Quebec (Assemblée nationale) is the legislative body of the province. Each of the 125 Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), elected according to the single-member plurality system, represents a constituency of approximately 40,000 voters. In the past, the province also had a Legislative Council (or Senate), but the latter...
Since the Patriotes movement, French Canadians dreamed of a different political arena from the one established by the traditional parties who, in their opinion, were too quarrelsome and corrupted. Honoré Mercier, Quebec’s premier from 1887 to 1891, had claimed that he would have wanted the interests of the country to be placed above those of the pa...
Peaceful management During the civil society outcry, Jean Charest withdrew or moderated his reform propositions. Over almost a decade (2003-2012), he simply maintained a healthy management of the province. One of the main concerns of the government was the reform of the health care system, considered expensive and inefficient, because it was respon...
During the 2018 elections, the traditional parties’ support collapsed and both the Parti Québécois and the Parti libéral obtained the worst numbers in their respective histories. Meanwhile, two new parties made significant breakthroughs: Québec solidaire, a left-wing party founded in 2006, secured ten seats; Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ), a centre-...
May 30, 2021 · Québec Premier François Legault’s recent constitutional proposals have caused alarm. But it’s largely a game aimed at finding common ground between federalist and separatist voters in the ...
Oct 24, 2017 · Over the past 50 years, Quebec has repeatedly presented the rest of the country with an ultimatum: “Give us more, or we’re leaving!” After two Quebec referendums (in 1980 and 1995) and a national referendum (1992), after countless constitutional conferences, reports and debates that dominated Canada’s political landscape for more than a generation, a vexing contradiction has emerged ...
Mar 17, 2024 · A cursory look at opinion polls and electoral results from the past 60 years reveals a strong trend towards moderation in terms of the constitutional preferences of Québec. The data shows that ...
Apr 5, 2010 · One of our tasks has been to explain the difference between the two countries. In our view, one societal fact and one institutional fact are paramount. At the “societal level,” the difference lies in the ways the dominant political cleavages in each country plays out: language in Canada, race in the United States.
