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40th Quebec Legislature

Pauline Marois (PQ) is the premier and Jean-Marc Fournier (Liberal) is the leader of the opposition (the party's leader, Philippe Couillard, does not currently hold a seat).

Action démocratique du Québec candidates, 1994 Quebec provincial election

Lucie Jobin received 5,043 votes (12.64%) in the 1994 election, finishing third against Parti Québécois candidate Joseph Facal.

Action démocratique du Québec candidates, 1998 Quebec provincial election

Sylvain Lépine received 5,696 votes (13.18%), finishing third against incumbent Parti Québécois cabinet minister Joseph Facal.

Amir Khadir

Several members of the National Assembly’s other three parties: François Bonnardel of the Action Démocratique du Québec, Parti Québécois MNA Martin Lemay and Liberal party member Lawrence Bergman subsequently visited the store to show their support and demonstrate their opposition to the boycott.

By-elections to the 37th Canadian Parliament

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.

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.

Claude L'Écuyer

Parti Québécois incumbent Léandre Dion, who was running for a fourth consecutive term, finished second with 32% of the vote.

Djemila Benhabib

She was the Parti Québécois candidate for Trois-Rivières in the 2012 Quebec general election, but narrowly failed to defeat the sitting member, Danielle St-Amand.

Donald Martel

Martel ran as a Parti Québécois candidate in Nicolet-Yamaska in the 2007 election, finishing second with 7,455 votes (28.32%) against Action démocratique du Québec candidate Éric Dorion.

Family Without a Name

This was a decade after the Vive le Québec libre speech of French President Charles de Gaulle, two years after the first election of a contemporary independence party in Quebec, the Parti Québécois, and two years before their promised referendum on independence occurred in 1980.

Fiscal imbalance in Canada

The theory was further developed in the "Seguin Report", commissioned by former Parti Québécois (PQ) Premier of Quebec Bernard Landry, and completed under former Liberal Quebec Minister of Finance Yves Séguin.

France Dionne

Dionne is attempting a political come back, she ran for another term in provincial office under the Liberal banner in the Kamouraska-Témiscouata by-election of November 29, 2010 but lost to the Parti Québécois candidate André Simard

François Corriveau

In the 2003 election, Corriveau finished second with 33% of the vote, behind Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate Marjolain Dufour (41%).

Guy Leblanc

He also ran as a Liberal candidate in 1998 in the provincial district of Trois-Rivières against Parti Québécois incumbent Guy Julien.

Jean Marchand

Presenting himself as an opponent of the separatist program of the Parti Québécois, he stood as a Quebec Liberal Party candidate in the 1976 Quebec provincial election in the riding of Louis-Hébert but was defeated by Claude Morin of the PQ in an election that resulted in the Parti Québécois forming its first government.

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.

Jean-Paul Akayesu

He was represented by Montreal lawyer John Philpot, brother of Parti Québécois politician and author Robin Philpot; this connection later surfaced in the 2007 Quebec general election after statements from Robin Philpot's book Rwanda 1994: Colonialism Dies Hard appearing to deny the extent of the genocide were widely publicized.

Josée Legault

For the Quebec general election of 1998, she defied the party establishment and ran unsuccessfully for the PQ nomination in the Mercier riding for the Parti Québécois (PQ).

Legal dispute over Quebec's language policy

The Charter, enacted under the Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque, expanded upon Quebec's previous language legislation, Bill 22, also known as the Official Language Act, enacted in 1974 under the Liberal Party of Quebec government of Robert Bourassa.

Louis Champagne

He is best known for controversial remarks he made during the 2007 Quebec election campaign, when he interviewed Lac-Saint-Jean Parti Québécois candidate Alexandre Cloutier on February 19, 2007.

Lyn Thériault

Thériault was elected as borough mayor of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in the 2005 municipal election, defeating Pierre Bélanger, a former Parti Québécois (PQ) cabinet minister who ran for MICU.

Maria Mourani

She declared her candidacy in the Bloc Québécois leadership election that was held to choose a successor to Gilles Duceppe and ran on a platform of making the Bloc more independent from the Parti Québécois.

She is the former President of the Bloc's citizen's committee and on the Parti Québécois riding executive in the provincial riding of Acadie and the Committee director of the PQ orientation congress.

Natural Law Party of Quebec candidates, 1994 Quebec provincial election

He received 340 votes (1.27%) in the 1994 election, finishing fourth against Parti Québécois incumbent Jacques Léonard.

Jacques Houde received 840 votes (3.14%), finishing third against Parti Québécois candidate Michel Morin.

Parti citron candidates, 1994 Quebec provincial election

Bruno Fortier received 342 votes (1.28%), finishing third against Parti Québécois incumbent Jacques Léonard.

Paul Philibert

He ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Trois-Rivières in 1981, but lost against PQ incumbent Denis Vaugeois.

Ralliement créditiste du Québec candidates, 1976 Quebec provincial election

Antonio Lemire received 1,499 votes (5.35%), finishing fourth against Parti Québécois candidate Jacques Léonard.

Richard Legendre

In 2005 he was a candidate in the Parti Québécois's leadership election, a bid notably supported by former Quebec minister François Legault and sprinter and olympic medalist Bruny Surin.

Richard Marceau

He ran unsuccessfully as the Parti Québécois candidate in Charlesbourg in the 2007 Quebec election.

Thierry St-Cyr

He ran in the 2012 Quebec provincial election for the Parti Québécois in Verdun, losing to incumbent Henri-François Gautrin of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Union Nationale candidates, 1976 Quebec provincial election

Laurent Jetté received 2,992 votes (10.68%), finishing third against Parti Québécois candidate Jacques Léonard.

Union Nationale candidates, 1981 Quebec provincial election

Roger Labonté received 1,079 votes (3.54%), finishing third against incumbent Parti Québécois cabinet minister Jacques Léonard.

Yves Lévesque

In the 2003 provincial election, he campaigned in favor of the re-election of Parti Québécois incumbent Guy Julien, who lost.


see also

1984 Governor General's Awards

Graham Fraser, P.Q.: René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power

Legal dispute over Quebec's language policy

Parti québécois leader Pauline Marois suggested the ruling could be "catastrophic" and described it as unsatisfactory.

Loubier

Yvan Loubier (born 1959), Canadian Parti Québécois politician

Louise Beaudoin

On June 6, 2011, Beaudoin and caucus mates Lisette Lapointe and Pierre Curzi resigned from the Parti Québécois to sit as independents over the PQ's acceptance of a bill changing the law to permit an agreement between the City of Québec and Quebecor Inc. concerning the construction of an arena in Quebec City.

Marc-Yvan Côté

In 2006, Côté launched a lawsuit against Parti Québécois MNA for Taschereau Agnès Maltais for defamatory comments when she told that Côté participated in the closure of the Quebec Zoo.

Michel Bourdon

As vice-president of the Montreal council of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) in 1970, Bourdon endorsed Quebec independence and accused Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau of having imposed the War Measures Act on Quebec during the FLQ Crisis to weaken the constitutional Parti Québécois rather than the radical Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) paramilitary group.

Nicolas Girard

Girard was involved in politics in his teens, notably on the Parti Québécois (PQ) Youth Association in the riding of La Prairie.

Pierre Curzi

On June 6, 2011, Curzi and caucus mates Louise Beaudoin and Lisette Lapointe resigned from the Parti Québécois to sit as independents over the PQ's acceptance of a bill changing the law to permit an agreement between the City of Québec and Quebecor Inc. concerning the construction of an arena in Quebec City.

Sylvain Gaudreault

He had faced controversy during the campaign, when radio host Louis Champagne attacked both Gaudreault and Parti Québécois leader André Boisclair for being openly gay.