Front Commun Des Personnes Assistées Sociales Du Québec

	Front Commun Des Personnes Assistées Sociales Du Québec The Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec is an activist organization in the Canadian province of Quebec, established in 1974. Its purpose is to represent the interests of Quebec residents receiving social assistance. Prominent figures Fernande Brosseau (coordinator, late 1980s). Brosseau worked with Françoise David against strict social security reforms introduced by the government of Robert Bourassa in 1988. In October of that year, she helped organize a demonstration by four thousand people in Montreal. The following year, she criticized the government's plans to crack down on drug abuse among welfare recipients as heavy-handed and said the policy would be challenged in the courts. She was particularly focused on women's issues in relation to poverty.Huguette Roberge, "Haro sur la réforme de l'aide sociale," ''La Presse'', 29 September 1988, A12; Jean-Paul Soulié, "Trois femmes mènent un combat acharné contre la réforme de l'aide sociale," ''La Presse'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Social Assistance Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specifically to social insurance programs which provide support only to those who have previously contributed (e.g. most pension systems), as opposed to ''social assistance'' programs which provide support on the basis of need alone (e.g. most disability benefits). The International Labour Organization defines social security as covering support for those in old age, support for the maintenance of children, medical treatment, parental and sick leave, unemployment and disability benefits, and support for sufferers of occupational injury. More broadly, welfare may also encompass efforts to provide a basic level of well-being through free or subsidized ''social services'' such as healthcare, education, infrastructure, vocational training, and pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Françoise David Françoise David (born January 13, 1948) is a former spokesperson of Québec solidaire – a left-wing, feminist, and sovereigntist political party in the province of Quebec, Canada. She was elected to serve as the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Gouin in the 2012 Quebec election, and then again in the 2014 Quebec election. Quebec Solidaire was born from the merger of Option Citoyenne with l'Union des Forces Progressistes. She is the author of the book/manifesto ''Bien commun recherché – une option citoyenne'' (over 7,000 copies sold in Quebec) which attempts to combine the concepts of "common good", social justice, ecology and economic democracy into a coherent political doctrine. On January 19, 2017, Françoise David announced her immediate retirement as both party spokesperson and as a Member of the National Assembly due to her health. Biography In 1987, Françoise David became coordinator for the ''Regroupement des centres de femmes du Québ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Robert Bourassa Robert Bourassa (; July 14, 1933 – October 2, 1996) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd premier of Quebec from 1970 to 1976 and from 1985 to 1994. A member of the Liberal Party of Quebec, he served a total of just under 15 years as premier. Bourassa's tenure was marked by major events affecting Quebec, including the October Crisis and the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords. Early years and education Bourassa was born to a working class family in Montreal, the son of Adrienne (née Courville) (1897–1982) and Aubert Bourassa, a port authority worker. Robert Bourassa graduated from the Université de Montréal law school in 1956 and was admitted to the Barreau du Québec the following year. On August 23, 1958, he married Andrée Simard, an heiress of the powerful shipbuilding Simard family of Sorel, Quebec. Later, he studied at Keble College, University of Oxford and also obtained a degree in political economy at Harvard University in 1960. On his r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jean-Yves Desgagnés Jean-Yves Desgagnés is a political activist in the Canadian province of Quebec. He has worked for many years on behalf of people receiving social assistance and has sought election to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec four times. Desgagnés is a member of Québec solidaire. Early life Desgagnés worked at the Centre populaire de Roberval from 1981 to 1985. He subsequently returned to academia, and he later spent six months in Latin America. Activism Desgagnés was co-coordinator of the Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec (Common Front of Quebec Social Assistance Recipients) in the early 1990s and again from 1996 to 2004. In this capacity, he was a vocal critic of the social assistance policies pursued by several Quebec governments. In 1991, he accused Robert Bourassa's government of creating hunger among low-income children through program cuts that amounted to one hundred million dollars per year. While acknowledging that a school meals program int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Claudette Champagne Claudette Champagne is a social activist in the Canadian province of Quebec. She is best known for her tenure as coordinator of the Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec (FCPASQ) in the mid-1990s. As FCPASQ leader, Champagne was often critical of government decisions in the field of social assistance. She strongly criticized a scheme proposed by the Liberal government of Robert Bourassa in 1993, wherein recipients would be forced to perform several hours of unpaid work to receive their cheques. Champagne argued that this arrangement devalued both paid and voluntary work, adding that the government should concentrate on providing real job opportunities. In the same year, she criticized the government's cutbacks to literacy programs. Champagne supported the sovereignty option in the 1995 Quebec referendum. After the narrow defeat of the sovereigntist side, she criticized a decision by Jacques Parizeau's Parti Québécois government to cut social assistance by thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Éric Bondo Éric Bondo is an activist in Quebec best known for his tenure as coordinator of the Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec (FCPASQ) in the mid-2000s. Activism Bondo helped create Groupe corporatif de gestion IMPACT, an organization that sought to find employment for students, in early 1995. It was forced to discontinue operations in November of the same year. At its conclusion, the organization's only project was a dépanneur in Montreal. He succeeded Jean-Yves Desgagnés as FCPASQ coordinator in 2004. In the same year, he led demonstrations against the government of Jean Charest for its plan to cut $44 million from social assistance, primarily targeted at youth. Claude Bechard, the minister responsible for implementing the decision, had argued that many youth would be able to escape social assistance with the help of their parents. Bondo responded that the government was pursuing "punitive measures" and playing up stereotypes of the poor as parasites, adding th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thérèse Spénard {{short description, none The Mouvement socialiste fielded ten candidates in the 1989 Quebec general election, none of whom were elected. Candidates Sainte-Anne: Thérèse Spénard Thérèse Spénard was an anti-poverty activist in Quebec. She was one of three spokeswomen for the Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec (FCPASQ) in 1988, when the organization tried to overturn harsh social assistance reforms introduced by the Liberal government of Robert Bourassa. Newspaper reports from this period indicate that she was a single mother, less than thirty years old. Spénard continued as a spokesperson for the FCPASQ in the 1990s. She offered qualified support for minister André Bourbeau André Bourbeau, (June 1, 1936 – March 25, 2018) was a Canadian politician. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, Bourbeau served as member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Laporte serving from 1981 until 2003. Early life Bourbeau ...'s reforms to provincial disab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]