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À Hauteur D'homme
''À Hauteur d'homme'' is a 2003 Canada, Canadian political Documentary film, documentary directed in 2003 by Jean-Claude Labrecque about Bernard Landry and the 2003 Quebec general election, 2003 general election in Quebec, Canada. It won a Jutra Award for ''Best Documentary'' (tie) in 2004. Its style belongs to the Quebec cinéma vérité, cinéma direct school of filmmaking. Overview ''À Hauteur d'homme'' is a political documentary film revolving first around one man, Bernard Landry, leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), and second around the re-election campaign of his party in 2003. The movie shows an intimate, never-before-seen look at the works of an election campaign. The finality of the story, the defeat of the party, gives this work a mood of tragedy, but with final acceptance. It also features, amongst others, Landry's girlfriend, Chantal Renaud, and press attaché Hubert Bolduc. Landry, the protagonist, is an Independence, independentist, social democrat, Premier of Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Labrecque
Jean-Claude Labrecque, (June 19, 1938 – May 31, 2019) was a Film director, director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada. Career Jean-Claude Labrecque was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and trained as a camera assistant at the NFB. As a cinematographer, he shot many of the early key films of Claude Jutra (''À tout prendre''), Michel Brault (''Between Salt and Sweet Water, Entre la mer et l’eau douce''), Gilles Carle (''La vie heureuse de Léopold Z''), Gilles Groulx (''The Cat in the Bag, Le Chat dans le sac'') and Don Owen (filmmaker), Don Owen (''Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail'', ''The Ernie Game''). He turned to directing in 1965 with ''60 Cycles'', about a long-distance bike race on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, which has been described as a virtual encyclopedia of camera techniques. It won 22 international awards and was nominated for a BAFTA. He left the NFB in 1967 to set-up his own production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parti Libéral Du Québec
The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; , PLQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955. 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 former British Columbia Liberal Party. History Pre-confederation The Liberal Party is descended from the Parti canadien (or Parti Patriote), who supported the 1837 Lower Canada Rebellion, and the Parti rouge, who fought for responsible government and against the authority of the Roman Catholi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Démocratique Du Québec
The (, ), commonly referred to as the , was a right-wing populist and conservative provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. On the sovereignty question, it defined itself as autonomist; it had support from nationalists and federalists. Its members were referred to as ''adéquistes'', a name derived from the French pronunciation of the initials 'ADQ'. The party was founded by dissidents of the Quebec Liberal Party who did not accept the Charlottetown Accord, and first contested the 1994 provincial election, electing Mario Dumont to the National Assembly. Under longtime leader Dumont, the ADQ had a strong showing in the 2007 provincial election, reducing the ruling Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) to a minority government and relegating the Parti Québécois (PQ) to third place. The ADQ won 41 seats with 31% of the popular vote to serve as the Official Opposition in the National Assembly. However, the ADQ's popularity declined significantly soon afterward and in the 2008 provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Wilkins
Jacques Wilkins is a Quebec public relations advisor. He is a partner at Communications André Bouthillier, a Montreal public relations firm. Wilkins served as the communication director for former premier of Quebec 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 ... from 2001 to 2003. Prior to that, he was deputy minister at the Quebec ministry of health and social services, and held communications positions with a number of health services organizations. ReferencesBiography of Jacques Wilkins at Communications André Bouthillier Canadian businesspeople Living people Canadian public relations people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Langlois (economist)
Pierre Langlois () is a Canadian economist and political strategist. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he graduated from the Université de Montréal with a B.A. (1998) and a M.A (1999) in economics. His master's thesis was on growth theory with empirical evidences from U.S. metropolitan areas. Economic advisor While working at the Ottawa-based Conference Board of Canada as an associate economist, Langlois was recruited by newly appointed Parti Québécois finance minister, Pauline Marois. Langlois, at 26 years, became a senior top advisor. He was highly involved in the budget preparation and other legislative operations and was a key line writer for the daily question period. In 2003, Langlois was appointed by the office of the Premier of Quebec as an economic advisor for the upcoming provincial election. Pierre Langlois is seen in the movie ''À Hauteur d'homme'', which is a documentary of the 2003 PQ campaign. Between 2003 and 2005, Langlois served as a political conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Hardy (economist)
Denis Hardy is a Quebecois economist who served as a chief of staff for 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 ..., while he was deputy premier and minister of finances. He later became deputy chief of staff for premier Landry. On April 22, 2003, he was appointed as assistant deputy minister in the Quebec finance ministry. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hardy, Denis [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Pelletier
Brigitte Pelletier (born 1964) is a Canadian lawyer in Quebec and former associate deputy minister of the Quebec Ministry of Justice. She is a graduate of Université Laval. She was a former chief of staff for Quebec premier 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 ... in 2002-2003. Following Landry's defeat in 2003, she was appointed as Associate Deputy Deputy Minister of Justice. ReferencesQuebec Government. Office of the Premier. Biography of Brigitte Pelletier. Quebec civil servants Lawyers in Quebec Living people 1964 births Université Laval alumni Canadian women lawyers Date of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Legault
François Legault (; born May 26, 1957) is a Canadian politician serving as the 32nd premier of Quebec since 2018. A founding member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), he has led the party since it began in 2011. Legault sits as a National Assembly of Quebec, member of the National Assembly (MNA) for the Lanaudière region riding of L'Assomption (provincial electoral district), L'Assomption. Legault's ongoing tenure of , as premier is the ninth-longest in Quebec history. Concurrently, he is also the Dean of the Quebec National Assembly. Prior to entering politics, he was the co-founder of the Canadian airline Air Transat. He was a MNA from 1998 to 2009—serving in the governments of former premiers Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry—as the minister of education from 1998 to 2003 and as the minister of health from 2002 to 2003. He was a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), first elected in the 1998 Quebec general election, 1998 Quebec election in the riding of Rousseau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Boisclair
André Boisclair (; born April 14, 1966) is a former Canadian politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the leader of the Parti Québécois, a social democratic and sovereigntist party in Quebec. Between January 1996 and March 2003, Boisclair served as Citizenship and Immigration Minister and Social Solidarity Minister under former Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard and as Environment Minister under former Premier Bernard Landry. He won the Parti Québécois leadership election on November 15, 2005. After the worst defeat of his Party since 1970 in the 2007 Quebec general election, Boisclair announced he was stepping down as leader of the PQ on May 8, 2007. François Gendron was named interim leader. On June 19, 2022, Boisclair pled guilty to two counts of sexual assault in separate episodes involving two young men. On July 18, 2022, the Quebec Court accepted a joint sentence recommendation from the Crown prosecutor and defence counsel, and imposed a sentence of imprisonment ... [...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 (Quebec), 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, grassroots organizations and in the Parti Québécois (a social democracy, social democratic party advocating Quebec sovereignty movement, Quebec's independence). After accepting political jobs in ministerial offices, she was first elected as a member of the National Assembly in 1981 Quebec general election, 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 defea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reporter
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertising, or public relations personnel. Depending on the form of journalism, "journalist" may also describe various categories of people by the roles they play in the process. These include reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, editors, editorial writers, columnists, and photojournalists. A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, from home or outside to witness events or interview people. Reporters may be assigned a specific beat (area of coverage). Matthew C. Nisbet, who has written on science communicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parizeau Affair
The Parizeau Affair (French: ''l'Affaire Parizeau'') was a political controversy that occurred in Quebec during the 2003 Quebec general election campaign. Description On March 31, 2003, an article was published in the Trois-Rivières newspaper '' Le Nouvelliste'' claiming that the former Parti Québécois (PQ) leader, Jacques Parizeau, had reiterated his controversial statement that the 1995 referendum failed due to "'' money and the ethnic vote''." The same evening, the Quebec Leaders' Debate was held between Jean Charest, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, and Bernard Landry, leader of the Parti Québécois. During the debate, Charest surprised Landry on live television by presenting the article and questioning whether the PQ leader shared his predecessor's views. This resulted in a controversy that continued to receive attention in the days and weeks following the debate. In response, the PQ attempted to denounce Charest's actions as an attack on Parizeau's reputation and dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
