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 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a centre to centre-right federal political party in Canada that existed from 1942 to 2003.
John James "Jean" Charest is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 29th premier of Quebec from 2003 to 2012 and the fifth deputy prime minister of Canada in 1993. Charest was elected to the House of Commons in 1984 and would serve in several federal cabinet positions between 1986 and 1993. He became the leader of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in 1993 and remained in the role until he entered provincial politics in 1998. Charest was elected as the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party,and his party went on to form government in 2003.
AndréBachand is a Canadian politician,who represented the riding of Richmond—Arthabaska as member of the Progressive Conservatives from 1997 to 2003.
Claude Wagner was a Canadian judge and politician in the province of Quebec,Canada. Throughout his career,he was a Crown prosecutor,professor of criminal law and judge.
Michael M. Fortier,is a Canadian financier,lawyer and former politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as Minister of Public Works and Government Services from 2006 to 2008,and Minister of International Trade in 2008 under Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Fortier served in Cabinet of Canada while a Senator,which proved controversial. In 2008,he resigned from the Senate to run for a seat in the House of Commons in the 2008 election;he placed second in riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.
Jean-Claude Rivest is a Canadian lawyer,former politician and Senator.
Josée Verner,is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Louis-Saint-Laurent in the House of Commons of Canada from 2006 to 2011 as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. She also served as a minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper serving as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs,President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister for La Francophonie. On May 18,2011,it was announced that she would be appointed to the Senate of Canada following the loss of her Commons seat in the 2011 federal election. She was formally appointed on June 13,2011.
Lawrence Cannon,is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former Quebec lieutenant. In early 2006,he was made the Minister of Transport. On October 30,2008,he relinquished oversight of Transport and was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was defeated in the 2011 federal election by the NDP's Mathieu Ravignat. He was appointed as Canadian Ambassador to France in May 2012,and he served in that position until September 2017.
Fabian Manning is a politician in Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada. Manning served as a Progressive Conservative and later as the independent Member of the House of Assembly for the district of Placentia and St. Mary’s from 1999 to 2005. From 2006 to 2008 he was the Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament for the riding of Avalon. After his defeat in the 2008 federal election Manning was appointed to the Senate of Canada on January 2,2009,he resigned his Senate seat on March 28,2011,to run for election in his former riding of Avalon in the 2011 federal election,but was unsuccessful. Prime Minister Stephen Harper re-appointed Manning to the Senate on May 25,2011.
Mario Beaulieu was a Canadian notary,politician and senator.
Ghislain Harvey was a member of the Quebec Provincial Parliament from 1973 to 1976.
Denis Lebel is a Canadian politician who served as mayor of Roberval,Quebec and deputy leader of the Official Opposition. Lebel was born in Roberval,Quebec.
Gérard Deltell is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Louis-Saint-Laurent since 2015. A member of the Conservative Party,Deltell was Opposition House Leader from 2020 to 2022 under Erin O'Toole and held a number of opposition critic positions. Prior to entering federal politics,he represented Chauveau in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2008 to 2015 and was the leader of the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) from 2009 until it merged with the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) in 2012. He served as the CAQ's house leader until 2014.
Michel Rivard is a Canadian politician,former senator,and former member of the National Assembly of Quebec.
Stephen Greene is a Canadian politician and an independent member of the Senate of Canada. He was appointed on the advice of Stephen Harper to the Senate on January 2,2009,and sat as a Conservative Senator until May 2017,when Senate Leader Larry Smith removed him for his support for Senate reform proposals put forth by the governing Liberal Party. Greene then decided to sit as an "Independent Reform" Senator.
By-elections to the 40th Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 2008 federal election and the 2011 federal election. The Conservative Party of Canada led a minority government for the entirety of the 40th Canadian Parliament,with little change from by-elections.
Jean-Guy Dagenais is a Canadian politician from Quebec. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada on January 17,2012,by Stephen Harper after losing in the 2011 Canadian federal election running as a Conservative candidate in Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot. He represents the Senate division of Victoria (Quebec). In 2019,he left the Conservative Senate caucus to sit with the Canadian Senators Group,and left the Conservative party in 2022 shortly after Pierre Poilievre was elected as leader.
Thomas Johnson McInnis is a retired Canadian senator. He also represented the electoral district of Halifax Eastern Shore in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1978 to 1993,as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.
