The CANADA! Party was an official political party in the province of

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from 1994 to 1998. It was founded on Canada Day 1994 by federalist Tony Kondaks, former top-aide to Equality Party leader Robert Libman. It was initially called the Canada Party of Quebec/Parti Canada du Québec but due to confusion with the federal Canada Party, it changed its name to CANADA! (with all capital letters and an

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a few weeks later). With

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rising and the imminence of a referendum on Quebec's independence, the main platform of the CANADA! Party was to guarantee that any riding that elected one of its candidates would stay in

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even if Quebec voted in favour of sovereignty in the 1995 referendum. Kondaks had trouble with the

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because he used a

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phone line to finance his party's activities with money from other provinces. Justice Roland Tremblay forbade Kondaks to use this tactic in July 1994, saying it violated Quebec's

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.Le Devoir (July 29, 1994) ''Pierre-F. Côté aux trousses du Parti Canada!'' The CANADA! Party ran 10 candidates and gathered 2,567 votes (0.07% of all votes cast) in the 1994 provincial election and lost its official status for not running any candidate in the 1998 provincial election. Kondaks has since moved to the

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and now lives in

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, but keeps in touch with Canadian politics by sending regular

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to Montreal's English-language daily newspaper '' The Gazette''.

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National Assembly historical information

La Politique québécoise sur le Web
{{DEFAULTSORT:Canada! Provincial political parties in Quebec Political parties established in 1994 Political parties disestablished in 1998 Defunct political parties in Canada 1994 establishments in Quebec

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