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2014 Bloc Québécois Leadership Election
The 2014 Bloc Québécois leadership election was held June 14, 2014 to choose a successor for Daniel Paillé who resigned on December 16, 2013 for health reasons. Voter turnout in the election was 58.5%, up from the 2011 leadership election, with approximately 19,000 members voted by telephone to elect Daniel Paillé's successor. Timeline *May 2, 2011: Federal election reduces the Bloc Québécois to 4 seats in the House of Commons. Party leader Gilles Duceppe loses his own riding in Laurier—Sainte-Marie and announces his resignation. *December 11, 2011: Daniel Paillé is elected leader at the party's 2011 leadership election. *February 27, 2013: Jonquière—Alma MP Claude Patry leaves the New Democratic Party caucus to join the Bloc Québécois. *September 12, 2013: Ahuntsic MP Maria Mourani is expelled from the Bloc Québécois caucus due to comments against the provincial Parti Québécois government's proposed Quebec Charter of Values. *December 16, 2013: Paillé re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Bloc Québécois Leadership Election
The 2011 Bloc Québécois leadership election was held on December 11, 2011, to replace Gilles Duceppe, who resigned on May 2 after the party lost 43 of its 47 seats, including his own seat, in the 2011 federal election. It was won by Daniel Paillé. Voter turnout for the leadership election was 38%. Timeline *March 15, 1997: Gilles Duceppe wins the leadership election taking over for Michel Gauthier as party president (leader). *March 25, 2011: Stephen Harper's government is defeated in a Motion of no confidence losing 156—145 which sets-up the May 2 election. *May 2, 2011: The election is held. The Bloc Québécois won only 4 ridings after having 47 at dissolution of Parliament. The party lost official party status. Gilles Duceppe loses his own riding in Laurier—Sainte-Marie and announces his resignation. *May 3, 2011: Vivian Barbot becomes interim president after failing to regain her riding the night before. *May 11, 2011: Former MP Pierre Paquette announces his in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec Charter Of Values
The ''Charter of Quebec Value''s ( or ) was Bill 60 in the Canadian province of Quebec, introduced by the governing Parti Québécois in 2013 under Premier Pauline Marois, trying to legislate the Quebec controversy on reasonable accommodation. The PQ cabinet member forwarding the bill was Bernard Drainville, Minister responsible for Democratic Institutions and Active Citizenship. Premier Marois also threatened invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Constitution of Canada to pass the Charter in 2013. There was much controversy in Quebec and elsewhere about the charter, especially its proposed prohibition of public sector employees from wearing or displaying conspicuous religious symbols. The proposal would have included the following provisions: * Amend the '' Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms'' * Establish a duty of neutrality and reserve for all state personnel (including state-funded education and health care workers). * Limit the wearing of conspicuous r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Turp
Daniel Turp (born April 30, 1955) is a professor of constitutional and international law at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served as a Bloc Québécois member of Parliament from 1997 to 2000 and as a Parti Québécois member of the Quebec National Assembly from 2003 to 2008. Early life and education Born in Montreal, Quebec, Turp was raised as a Roman Catholic but later converted to Presbyterianism. He is a member of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal. Turp studied law at the Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa, and received his legal licence in Sherbrooke, Quebec in 1977. He earned a master's degree at the Université de Montréal in 1978. He has worked for the Canadian International Development Agency and was called as an expert for the Bélanger-Campeau Commission on Quebec's constitutional future. Turp started teaching at the Université de Montréal in 1982. Since then, he has taught several law courses at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Plamondon
Louis Plamondon (born July 31, 1943) is a Canadian politician who has served as a member of Parliament (MP) since his election in 1984. As the longest-serving current member of the House of Commons, Plamondon is Dean of the House, and holds the record as Canada's longest-serving dean. He represents Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel (formerly known as Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour and Richelieu) and briefly served as the 38th speaker of the House of Commons in an interim capacity in 2023. Plamondon is a member of the Bloc Québécois; he was first elected as a Progressive Conservative (PC), until leaving the PC caucus in 1990. Plamondon has won his seat in twelve consecutive federal elections, winning twice as a Progressive Conservative before becoming a founding member of the Bloc Québécois in 1990, after which he has been re-elected ten more times. He, along with six other Bloc MPs, resigned from the Bloc's caucus to sit as an independent MP on February 28, 2018 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Beauchemin
Yves Beauchemin (; born 26 June 1941) is a Québécois novelist. Born in Rouyn-Noranda and raised in the village of Clova, Beauchemin received his degree in French literature and art history at the Université de Montréal in 1965. He taught literature at the Collège Garneau and Université Laval. Beauchemin was working as an editor in a Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ... publishing firm when he began contributing essays and stories to magazines and newspapers. In 1969 he accepted a position as a researcher at Radio-Québec. Beauchemin's first novel, ''L'enfirouapé'' (1974), won the Prix France-Québec. His second novel, ''Le Matou'' (1981), became the all-time best-selling novel in French Quebec literature and has been translated into seventeen l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Barsalou-Duval
Xavier Barsalou-Duval (born November 10, 1988) is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères in the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election. Political career He was president of the Forum jeunesse du Bloc Québécois from 2011 to 2015 and campaigned for Mario Beaulieu in the 2014 leadership race. He was elected with the lowest percentage of the vote of any Member of Parliament in 2015, gaining only 28.6% of the vote due to vote splitting and a close race in his riding. Barsalou-Duval was one of three Bloc MPs who supported Martine Ouellet's leadership during a caucus revolt and remained with the Bloc caucus when seven MPs resigned on February 28, 2018 to sit as Independents. Since 2021 he has served as the critic of transport, infrastructure and communities in the Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet may refer to: * Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet of the 44th Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forum Jeunesse Du Bloc Québécois
Forum or The Forum may refer to: Common uses *Forum (legal), designated space for public expression in the United States *Forum (Roman), open public space within a Roman city **Roman Forum, most famous example * Internet forum, discussion board on the Internet Arts and entertainment * Forum & Forum Expanded, a section of the Berlin International Film Festival * ''Forum'' (album), a 2001 pop/soft rock album by Invertigo *The Forum (vocal group), organized by American musician Les Baxter *Forum theatre, a type of theatrical technique created by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal * Forum Theatre (Washington, D.C.), a former theatre group Buildings Shopping centres * Forum (shopping centre), Helsinki, Finland *The Forum (shopping mall), Bangalore, India * Forum Mall (Kolkata), Kolkata, India *Forum The Shopping Mall, Singapore * The Forum on Peachtree Parkway, Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States *The Forum Shops at Caesars, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Sports and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Laurier
Lucie Laurier (born 19 March 1975) is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performances in the films ''Anne Trister'', for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987, and ''Bon Cop, Bad Cop'', for which she received a Jutra Award nomination for Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007. Filmography * 1985 in film, 1985 : ''Le Vieillard et l'enfant'' * 1986 in film, 1986 : ''Henri (1986 film), Henri'' : ''Liliane'' * 1986 in film, 1986 : ''Anne Trister'' : ''Sarah'' * 1987 in film, 1987 : ''Le diable à quatre (film), Le diable à quatre'' * 1989 in film, 1989 : ''Chambres en ville'' (television series) : ''Caroline #1'' * 1990 in film, 1990 : ''Les Filles de Caleb'' (television series) : ''Émilie (jeune)'' * 1991 in film, 1991 : ''Love Me (1991 film), Love Me (Love-moi)'' : ''Danielle'' * 1994 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djemila Benhabib
Djemila Benhabib () (born 1972) is a Canadian journalist, writer, and politician who lives in Bruxelles, Belgium. She is of Algerian and Greek-Cypriot descent, and is known for her opposition to Islam. Biography She was born in Ukraine in 1972, but grew up in Algeria. Her father is Algerian and her mother Greek Cypriot. She was a finalist for the 2009 Governor General's Literary Awards for her non-fiction book ''Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes''. Her second book is ''Les soldats d'Allah à l'assaut de l'Occident''. In 2010, she appeared on the ''Jean-Marie Colombani invite'' show on Public Sénat, the television channel of the French Senate. In 2012, she received ''Le Prix international de la laïcité''. She was the Parti Québécois candidate for Trois-Rivières in the 2012 Quebec general election, but narrowly failed to defeat the sitting member, Danielle St-Amand. She was again candidate in 2014 The year 2014 was marked by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Landry
Bernard Landry (; March 9, 1937 – November 6, 2018) was a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he led the party from 2001 to 2005, also serving as the leader of the Opposition from 2003 to 2005. Personal life Landry was born on March 9, 1937, in Saint-Jacques, Quebec, (near Joliette), the son of Thérèse Granger and Bernard Landry. Landry was first married to Lorraine Laporte first a lawyer and later a court judge on Quebec justice system with whom he had three children. After his wife's death to cancer in 1999, in 2004, he married script writer and former yé-yé singer and actress Chantal Renaud. Landry was classically trained by the clergy and retained some Latin. A native speaker of French, he also spoke fluent English and Spanish. Landry received a degree in law from the Université de Montréal, and a degree in economics and finance from Sciences Po Paris. While at the Université de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste
The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (, ) is an institution in the Canadian province of Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec sovereignism. It is known as the oldest patriotic association in French North America. The society's president from 2009 to 2014, Mario Beaulieu, subsequently became leader of the Bloc Québécois. Its current president, Maxime Laporte, is known for being coordinator (president) of , an umbrella group of various independentist organisations. History The society was created by Ludger Duvernay, a journalist for '' La Minerve'' in Lower Canada. It evolved from the Société ''Aide-toi et le ciel t'aidera'' ("help yourself and heaven will help you"), which was founded by Duvernay on March 8, 1834. Most notably, it made the 24th of June St. John the Baptist day, the national day of the Quebecers. In 1922, June 24 became a public holiday in Quebec, and since 1977 it has been the national holiday. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
