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2 unusual facts about National Assembly of Quebec


Chartered Professional Accountant

On March 28, 2012, a bill was tabled in the National Assembly of Quebec to create the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec.

Isabelle Boulay

On 14 February 2008, she was presented with the medal of the National Assembly of Quebec by the mayor of her hometown, in recognition of her contribution to the arts.


58th Grey Cup

George Springate, the Alouettes kicker, was formerly a police officer, and later a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a college (John Abbott College Cegep) teacher in criminology.

Antonio di Ciocco

Di Ciocco was first elected as mayor of Saint-Leonard in a 1981 by-election, which was held after incumbent mayor Michel Bissonnet was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec.

Civil unions in Quebec

As a result of a range of activism and to the M. v. H. decision, the National Assembly of Quebec voted unanimously in 2002 to amend the Civil Code of Quebec to create a status of civil union in Quebec, available to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and largely having the same rights as marriage.

Claude Jodoin

He was elected in the 23 March 1942 by-election to the National Assembly of Quebec, as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party, representing the Montréal–Saint-Jacques electoral district.

Denise Beaudoin

She was first elected to represent the riding of Mirabel in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2003 provincial election, but was defeated in the 2007 provincial election by François Desrochers of the Action démocratique du Québec.

Jean-Jacques Bertrand

His son, Jean-François Bertrand, was the Member of the National Assembly for the district of Vanier from 1976 to 1985 and a Cabinet Member of René Lévesque's Parti Québécois government.

Marcel Bérard

Bérard ran as a Liberal candidate to the National Assembly of Quebec in the district of Saint-Maurice in 1973 and defeated Union Nationale incumbent Philippe Demers.

Michel Pigeon

Michel Pigeon (born 1945) is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Charlesbourg in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election.

Pastagate

The incident occurred as the Assemblée Nationale was debating on Bill 14, a bill to toughen the province's Charter of the French Language.

Pierre Moreau

He was first elected to represent the riding of Marguerite-D'Youville in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2003 provincial election, but was defeated in the 2007 provincial election by Simon-Pierre Diamond of the Action démocratique du Québec.

Pierre Philion

Philion was a supporter of the Quebec Liberal Party and had participated in the campaign of current Hull MNA Roch Cholette who won the seat in the 2003 provincial election which made Jean Charest the new Prime Minister of Quebec.

Tremblay v. Daigle

Although the Charter does say its rights belong to humans, whether the fetus is a human is a merely "linguistic" question that would not solve the issue of what the National Assembly of Quebec actually meant in the Charter.

William Tetley

William Tetley, CM, QC (born February 10, 1927 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a lawyer and professor of law at McGill University in Montreal, the visiting professor of Maritime and Commercial Law at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister.


see also

Guy Bisaillon

The following month, the National Assembly of Quebec approved a bill to restrict the franchise in school board elections, such that only Catholics and Protestants would be able to vote in elections for the Montreal Catholic School Commission and the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, respectively.

Jacques Tremblay

Jacques-Raymond Tremblay (1923–2012), former Member of Parliament of Canada and also Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec Liberal Party for Iberville electoral division

Roger Lapointe

Lapointe was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1973 provincial election, defeating Union Nationale incumbent Fernand Lafontaine in the division of Labelle.