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La Peltrie
La Peltrie is a provincial electoral district in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes parts of Quebec City as well as the city of L'Ancienne-Lorette. It was created for the 1981 election from a part of Chauveau electoral district. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures to Louis-Hébert and parts of Quebec City to Louis-Hébert and Chauveau, but gained some cities and municipalities from Chauveau and Portneuf. Members of the National Assembly Election results ^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ. , - , Liberal Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * a supporter of liberalism ** Liberalism by country * an adherent of a Liberal Party * Liberalism (international relations) * Sexually liberal feminism * Social liberalism Arts, entertain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Caire
Éric Caire (born May 21, 1965) is a Canadian politician from Quebec, Canada, and the CAQ Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of La Peltrie. Early career Caire was born in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec. He was the owner of a local business for one year and taught computer science at Collège François-Xavier-Garneau in Quebec City. Before his election, he was a computer-analyst for eight years including two with Cognicase. In 2004, he was also the host of a local community radio show at CIMI-FM. Political career Caire first attempted to enter politics in 2001 with a failed independent candidacy at the Quebec municipal elections in 2001. Caire first ran for a provincial seat at the National Assembly for the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) in the 2003 election but finished second with 34% of the vote. Liberal candidate France Hamel won with 41% of the vote. In the 2007 election, Caire was easily elected with 51% of the vote. Hamel, who was running ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures
Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures is a city in central Quebec, Canada, on the Saint Lawrence River, adjacent to Quebec City. The town was founded in 1691 by three families (Desroches, Racette, Couture). It was merged with Quebec City on January 1, 2002 as part of the 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec and became part of the Laurentien borough of that city. However, after a 2004 referendum it was re-established as a separate city on January 1, 2006. The local post office was previously named Saint-Augustin-de-Portneuf from 1852, then Saint-Augustin-de-Québec from 1918 until this was renamed to the community's current name in 1986. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Guy Carignan
Jean-Guy Carignan (born 3 May 1941 in Victoriaville, Quebec) is a Canadian politician who served as a member of the House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada (french: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Common ... from 2000 to 2004. He was an administrator by career. Career Carignan joined the 37th Canadian Parliament on 27 November 2000 after being elected a Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal member for the Quebec East electoral district. On his election day, however, he was charged with offences relating to a Hit and run (vehicular), hit and run incident on 3 October 2000. He pleaded guilty to these charges on 6 November 2001 and was sentenced to a partial house arrest and 100 hours of community service that allowed him to attend the House of Commons. He resigned from the Liberal party on 14 De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parti Du Socialisme Chrétien
The Parti du socialisme chrétien (PSC) (known in English as the Christian Socialist Party) was a fringe political party in the Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. It fielded 103 candidates in the 1985 Quebec general election. Despite its name, the PSC had no connection with Canada's social democratic political tradition. It was established by Jacques Paquette, a former opioid use disorder, heroin addict who operated drug rehabilitation, drug treatment centres throughout Quebec in the 1980s. The party was primarily focused on drug issues, supporting both the legalization of cannabis (drug), cannabis and the introduction of the death penalty for traffickers in hard drugs. On one occasion, Paquette said that he would establish a leftist dictatorship in a "free Quebec" to remove heroin dealers from the province. He also promoted the use of handguns by citizen vigilantes to fight organized crime. Paquette ran in the 1985 election in Hull (provincial electoral district), Hull under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Marois
Pauline Marois (; born March 29, 1949) is a retired Canadian politician, who served as the 30th premier of Quebec from 2012 to 2014. Marois had been a member of the National Assembly in various ridings since 1981 as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), serving as party leader from 2007 to 2014. She is the first female premier of Quebec. Born in a working-class family, Marois studied social work at Université Laval, married businessman Claude Blanchet and became an activist in grassroots organizations and in the Parti Québécois (a social democratic party advocating Quebec's independence). After accepting political jobs in ministerial offices, she was first elected as a member of the National Assembly in 1981. At age 32, she was appointed to the cabinet for the first time as a junior minister in the René Lévesque government. After being defeated as a PQ candidate in La Peltrie in the 1985 general election and in a by-election in 1988, she was elected as the member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Cannon
Lawrence Cannon, (born December 6, 1947) is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former Quebec lieutenant. In early 2006, he was made the Minister of Transport. On October 30, 2008, he relinquished oversight of Transport and was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was defeated in the 2011 federal election by the NDP's Mathieu Ravignat. He was appointed as Canadian Ambassador to France in May 2012, and he served in that position until September 2017. Life and career Genealogy Cannon is the son of government lawyer Louis Cannon and Quebec television broadcast pioneer Rosemary "Posie" Power, and the grandson of Lucien Cannon and Charles Gavan Power. He is also the grand-nephew of Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon, a long-time Liberal politician and Supreme Court judge. He is the great grandson of Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, defender of Louis Riel and former Senior Minister in Laurier's cabinet. He is of Irish and French Canadian descent. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlottetown Accord
The Charlottetown Accord (french: Accord de Charlottetown) was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992. It was submitted to a public referendum on October 26 and was defeated. Background The Statute of Westminster (1931) gave Canada legislative independence from the United Kingdom. Canada requested that the British North America Acts (the written portions of the Constitution of Canada) be exempted from the statute because the federal and provincial governments could not agree upon an amending formula for the acts. Negotiations between Ottawa and the provinces were finally successful in 1981, allowing Canada to patriate its constitution by passing the ''Canada Act 1982'', which included the ''Constitution Act, 1982'' and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and finally established an amending formula for the Canadian Constitution. These constitutional changes had the consent of all provincia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Côté (MNA)
Michel Côté (born 12 August 1937) was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Parti Québécois in La Peltrie from 1994 to 2003. First elected in the 1994 election, he was re-elected in 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s .... He did not run for re-election in 2003. External links * 1937 births Parti Québécois MNAs French Quebecers Living people 21st-century Canadian politicians {{PartiQuébécois-Quebec-MNA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Hamel
France Hamel (born August 7, 1952 in Quebec City, Quebec) was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec Liberal Party in La Peltrie from 2003 to 2007. From 1997 to 2001 she was a municipal councilor in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, whose successful municipal reorganization in Quebec, 2006 demerger from Quebec City Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métrop ... she strongly supported. She was elected in the 2003 Quebec general election, 2003 election, succeeding Michel Côté (MNA), Michel Côté as Member of the National Assembly for La Peltrie. She was defeated in 2007 Quebec general election, 2007 by Éric Caire of the Action démocratique du Québec, ADQ. External links * 1952 births French Quebecers Living people Politicians from Quebec City Quebec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec Liberal Party
The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; french: Parti libéral du Québec, PLQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955. The QLP has always been associated with the colour red; each of their main opponents in different eras have been generally associated with the colour blue. The QLP has traditionally supported a form of Quebec federalist ideology with nuanced Canadian nationalist tones that supports Quebec remaining within the Canadian federation, while also supporting reforms that would allow substantial autonomism in Quebec. In the context of federal Canadian politics,Haddow and Klassen 2006 ''Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy''. University of Toronto Press. it is a more centrist party when compared to Conservative and Liberal parties in other provinces, such as the British Columbia Liberal Party. History Pre-Confederation The Liberal Party is descended from the Parti canadien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Quebec General Election
The 2008 Quebec general election was held in the Canada, Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec on December 8, 2008. The Quebec Liberal Party, under incumbent Premier Jean Charest, was re-elected with a majority government, marking the first time since the 1950s (when the Union Nationale (Quebec), Union Nationale of Maurice Duplessis won four consecutive elections) that a party or leader was elected to a third consecutive mandate, and the first time for the Liberals since the 1930s, when Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was Premier. The 2008 election also marked the first time that Québec solidaire won a seat. Issues Charest called the election on November 5, saying he needed a "clear mandate" and a majority to handle the economic storm. He was criticized, however, by the Parti Québécois and the Action démocratique du Québec for calling a snap election to get a majority when they were willing to work with him to fix the economy. Most notably, the electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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