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Also, in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President Bill Clinton by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was also given a meeting with Clinton in order to defuse Bouchard's separatist leverage.


Boischatel, Quebec

Michel Guimond, current whip of the Bloc Québécois, first started his political career here as a city councillor.

Canadian federal election results in Eastern Montreal

The eastern end of the Island of Montreal was the city's only solidly sovereigntist area and was the Bloc Québécois's power base for almost two decades, partly due to its leftist bent.

Canadian federal election results in Montérégie

The former have been a battleground between the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois because of the collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1993.

Canadian federal election results in the Eastern Townships

By 1997, he was PC leader and local candidates running on his coattails did well, resulting in a split between the Progressive Conservatives (four seats) the Bloc Québécois (three seats) and the Liberals (two seats).

Charles Deblois

He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament after which he was defeated by Bloc Québécois candidate Michel Guimond in the 1993 federal election when the riding was renamed to Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans.

Charles-Eugène Marin

In the 1993 federal election, Marin was defeated by Yvan Bernier of the Bloc Québécois and therefore left federal politics.

Communist Party of Canada candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election

Ruiz received 100 votes (0.2%) finishing ninth against incumbent and Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe.

Contempt of Parliament

The resulting election devastated two of the opposition parties who supported the contempt motion, with the Liberals losing more than half their seats to drop to third place in the Commons for the first time, while the Bloc Québécois was nearly wiped out, with both their leaders also personally losing their ridings.

France Dionne

She was defeated by incumbent Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament Paul Crête finishing a very close second by a couple thousand votes and slightly ahead of former Member of Parliament André Plourde.

Jean Duceppe

One of his sons is the Canadian politician and sovereigntist Gilles Duceppe, a supporter of the independence of Quebec from Canada and the former leader of the Bloc Québécois.

Jean-Guy Carignan

With the Quebec East riding boundaries redistributed in 2003, Carignan contested the Louis-Saint-Laurent electoral district in the 2004 federal election as an independent candidate but finished in sixth place while Bernard Cleary of the Bloc Québécois won the riding.

Jean-Guy Guilbault

Guilbault left federal politics after his defeat in the 1993 federal election to Pauline Picard of the Bloc Québécois.

Marc-Boris St-Maurice

In the elections of November 27, 2000, Saint-Maurice finished in 4th place with 2156 votes for the Marijuana Party in the riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie (Quebec), behind leader Gilles Duceppe, the Bloc Québécois, Jean-Philippe Côté, PLC and Dylan Perceval-Maxwell's Green Party.

Maria Mourani

Maria Mourani (born May 19, 1969) is an independent Member of Parliament in the federal riding of Ahuntsic in Canada and former Bloc Québécois MP.

Marie Gibeau

She served in the 34th Canadian Parliament after which she was defeated by Bloc Québécois candidate Osvaldo Nunez in the 1993 federal election.

Michel Veillette

Veillette made another unsuccessful attempt to re-enter Parliament in the 1993 federal election, but earned fewer votes than Champagne who in turn lost his seat to Réjean Lefebvre of the Bloc Québécois.

Richard Marceau

A lawyer in both Québec and Ontario, Marceau was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1997 federal election for the Bloc Québécois in the riding of Charlesbourg at the age of 26.

Single-issue politics

Some examples of single-issue parties are the party formed to protest against the increase in politician wages, the Bloc Québécois party in Canada, formed to call for the separation of Quebec, and the Party for the Animals, which gained two seats in the Dutch parliament in 2006.


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By-elections to the 37th Canadian Parliament

Pierre Brien of the Bloc Québécois, who, like his colleague Antoine Dubé, was elected in 1993, also decided to run in the 2003 Quebec provincial election.

Antoine Dubé, Bloc Québécois MP since 1993, resigned his seat on March 17, 2003 to run in the 2003 Quebec provincial election as a Parti Québécois candidate in Chutes-de-la-Chaudière.

Canadian federal election, 2000

The Liberals’ final television advertisement, according to Stephen Clarkson's The Big Red Machine, “emphasized the contrast between the Liberals and the Canadian Alliance while warning voters about PC leader Joe Clark’s claim that he would form a coalition with the Bloc Québécois in a minority government. The ad told Canadians not to take risks with other parties but to choose a strong, proven team.”

Canadian leaders debates

The five participants were Conservative leader and incumbent prime minister Stephen Harper, Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, NDP leader Jack Layton, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, and Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

The four participants in both debates were Conservative leader and incumbent prime minister Stephen Harper, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, NDP leader Jack Layton, and Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe.

Caroline St-Hilaire

She said her partner, Bloc Québécois MP Maka Kotto's decision to run for the Parti Québécois in a provincial by-election played a role in her decision.

Nadeau

Richard Nadeau (born 1959), Canadian teacher and Bloc Québécois politician in Quebec

Steven Blaney

He successfully defeated Bloc Québécois incumbent Réal Lapierre with 46.40% of the votes.