The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was formed by Members of Parliament (MPs) who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party during the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord. Founder Lucien Bouchard had been a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.
The Parti Québécois is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec,Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishing a sovereign state. The PQ has also promoted the possibility of maintaining a loose political and economic sovereignty-association between Quebec and Canada. The party traditionally has support from the labour movement;however,unlike most other social democratic parties,its ties with organized labour are informal. Members and supporters of the PQ are nicknamed péquistes,a French word derived from the pronunciation of the party's initials.
Lucien Bouchard is a French Canadian lawyer,diplomat and retired politician.
John James "Jean" Charest is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 29th premier of Quebec from 2003 to 2012. Prior to that,he was a member of Parliament (MP) between 1984 and 1998. After holding several Cabinet posts from 1986 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1993,he was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1993 to 1998.
Gilles Duceppe is a retired Canadian politician,proponent of the Quebec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and was the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois for 15 years in three stints:1996,1997-2011 and in 2015. He was Leader of the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada from March 17,1997,to June 1,1997. He resigned as party leader after the 2011 election,in which he lost his own seat to New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Hélène Laverdière and his party suffered a heavy defeat;however,he returned four years later to lead the party into the 2015 election. After being defeated in his own riding by Laverdière again,he resigned once more.
The Action démocratique du Québec,commonly referred to as the ADQ,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 1998 Quebec general election was held on November 30,1998,to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec,Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois,led by Premier Lucien Bouchard,won re-election,defeating the Quebec Liberal Party,led by Jean Charest. To date this is the last election where the Parti Québécois won a majority of seats in the Quebec Assembly,although not the last in which it formed a government.
Rodrigue Biron is a politician in Quebec,Canada. He was leader of the Union Nationale political party from 1976 to 1980,when he joined the Parti Québécois (PQ). He served as Minister of Industry,Commerce and Tourism in the PQ government.
Roch La Salle was a Canadian politician from the province of Quebec. He represented the riding of Joliette in the House of Commons of Canada for 20 years. A popular figure,he was re-elected six times during his tenure.
Maka Kotto is a Cameroonian-born Canadian politician. Educated in France,Kotto immigrated to Quebec,Canada,where he was an educator before entering politics. Kotto was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Bourget. From 2012 to 2014,he served as the Minister of Culture and Communications. A former member of the House of Commons of Canada for the Bloc Québécois,Kotto is also a published author and has appeared in films.
Louis Plamondon is a Canadian politician who served as the interim speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from September 27 to October 3,2023. A member of the Bloc Québécois,he has represented Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel since 1984. As the longest-serving current member of the House of Commons,Plamondon is Dean of the House,and holds the record as Canada's longest-serving dean.
Louise Beaudoin is a Canadian politician,who represented the electoral district of Rosemont in the National Assembly of Quebec until 2012,as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). She sat as an independent from June 6,2011 to April 3,2012. She is best known for her previous tenure as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) of Chambly,from 1994 to 2003,when she occupied various ministerial positions.
The 2008 Quebec general election was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on December 8,2008. The Quebec Liberal Party,under incumbent Premier Jean Charest,was re-elected with a majority government,marking the first time since the 1950s that a party or leader was elected to a third consecutive mandate,and the first time for the Liberals since the 1930s,when Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was Premier.
Jean D'Amour is a Canadian politician,who represented the electoral district of Rivière-du-Loup-Témiscouata in the National Assembly of Quebec. He won the riding in a by-election on 22 June 2009,and previously served as mayor of Rivière-du-Loup from 1999 to 2007.
Martine Ouellet is a Canadian politician who served as leader of the Bloc Québécois from 2017 to 2018. She was the Minister of Natural Resources in the Quebec government from 2012 to 2014.
By-elections to the 37th Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 2000 federal election and the 2004 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the entirety of the 37th Canadian Parliament,with little change from by-elections.
The 2018 Quebec general election was held on October 1,2018,to elect members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The election saw a landslide victory for the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) led by François Legault,which won 74 of 125 seats,giving the party a majority and unseating the Quebec Liberal Party. The Liberals became the official opposition with 31 seats.
This is a timeline for the 42nd Canadian federal election,which took place in October 2015.
The 2022 Quebec general election was held on October 3,2022,to elect the members of the National Assembly of Quebec. Under the province's fixed election date law,passed in 2013,"the general election following the end of a Legislature shall be held on the first Monday of October of the fourth calendar year following the year that includes the last day of the previous Legislature",setting the date for October 3,2022.
