Search results
Oct 23, 2023 · His party has gone through the budgeting exercise a handful of times since 1973 to define the financial framework in the event of Quebec sovereignty. It’s the first time the party has produced such a document since 2005, when it was presented by then-PQ member François Legault, now the Quebec premier and leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
The Quebecois movement of the late twentieth century was the product of long-standing strained relations between the francophone (or French Canadian) and anglophone (or English Canadian) populations of Canada. From these deep historical roots, the Quebecois movement grew into an important force shaping Canada ’ s current social, political ...
May 10, 2023 · The contemporary sovereignty movement remains splintered regarding statehood. Some, who argue that the U.S. has illegally occupied the islands, have advocated for a restoration of land, along with ...
Oct 23, 2023 · "Quebec would be a friendly neighbour" to Canada, Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says as he releases a new study on the theoretical finances of a sovereign Quebec. Author of the ...
The Act Respecting the Future of Quebec (also known as " Bill 1 " or the " Sovereignty Bill ") was a bill proposed to the Quebec National Assembly by Premier Jacques Parizeau and his Parti Québécois government in 1995. It proposed to give the National Assembly the power to declare Quebec "sovereign", with the "exclusive power to pass all its ...
Jul 12, 2018 · Yet nationalism is most associated with the province’s sovereignty movement and the Parti Québécois, the party created in 1968 to make Quebec an independent country. First elected in 1976, the ...
The sovereigntist movement of Quebec is generally considered to have started in the 1960s with the Quiet Revolution. The use of the word "sovereignty" and many of the ideas of this movement originated in the 1967 Mouvement Souveraineté-Association of René Lévesque. This movement ultimately gave birth to the Parti Québécois in 1968 .