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| Current Leader: | Bernard Landry |
| Founded: | October 11, 1968 |
| Headquarters: | 1200 Papineau Avenue, bureau 150 Montreal, Quebec H2K 4R5(514) 526-0020 & 1-800-363-9531info@pq.org |
| Colours: | Blue (also White & Red) |
| Political ideology: | Social Democrat, Nationalist &
Independentist |
The Parti Québécois or PQ is a political party which advocates national independence for Quebec and social democracy; Quebec is a province of the Canadian federation since 1867. Members and supporters of the PQ are sometimes called Péquistes (pronounced [peˈkists]--the word is derived from the French pronunciation of the party's initials).
The PQ is the result of the 1968 merger between René LévesqueRene Levesque ( August 24, 1922 November 1, 1987), was a reporter, a minister of the government of the Canadian province of Quebec ( 1960 1966), the founder of the Parti Quebecois political party, and Prime Minister of Quebec ( November 25, 1976 October 3's Mouvement souveraineté-association and the Ralliement nationalThe Ralliement national was political party that advocated the political independence of Quebec from Canada in the 1960s. It was led by former creditiste Gilles Gregoire. Unlike the Rassemblement pour l'independance nationale led by Pierre Bourgault, whic. Following its creation, the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationaleThe Rassemblement pour l'Independance Nationale (RIN) was a political organization dedicated to the promotion of Quebec national independence from Canada. History It was founded on September 10, 1960 in the very beginnings of the effervecent times of the held a general assembly which voted its dissolution. Its former members were invited to join the new Parti Québécois.
Its primary goals were and still are to obtain the complete political, economic and social independence for the Quebec political nationA nation is an imagined community of people created by a national ideology, also known as nationalism, to which certain norms and behavior are usually attributed. Added to this is usually the idea that a national (a person of the national ideology) should. In the 1976 provincial election, the Parti Québécois was elected to form the government of Quebec with René Lévesque as its leader. This was cause for celebration among many Quebecers, but resulted in panic and a mass exodus among many of the province's anglophone workers and business people.
The first PQ government, elected in 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s, was known as the "republic of teachers" because of its high number of MNAs teaching at the university level. The PQ was the first government to recognize the First Peoples' right to self-determination. The PQ passed laws on public consultations and the financing of political parties, which insured equal financing of political parties and limited contributions by individuals to $3000. However, the most important legacy of the PQ is the Charter of the French Language (the so-called Bill 101), a framework law which defines the linguistic rights of all Quebecers and seeks to make French the common public language of Quebec.
The Parti Québécois has initiated two referendums to begin negotiation for independence. The 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty association was rejected by 60 per cent of voters. With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty. It was rejected by a slim margin, less than one per cent. On the night of the defeat Premier Jacques Parizeau stated that the loss was caused by " money and the ethnic vote" as well as by the divided votes amongst francophones. Parizeau resigned the next day (as he planned beforehand in case of a defeat).
Lucien Bouchard, founder of the Bloc Québécois, succeeded Parizeau as PQ leader but chose not to call another referendum due to the absence of "winning conditions". Bouchard's government then engaged in massive cuts in social programs in order to support the PQ's new anti-deficit stance. The PQ won another term in 1998 and stayed the course. Bouchard resigned in 2001 and two years later his successor Bernard Landry, former Finance minister, lost the 2003 Quebec election to Jean Charest's Quebec Liberal Party.Summer and fall 2004 are difficult seasons for Bernard Landry's leadership which is being widely contested. Landry is hoping to win the confidence vote during the June 2005 convention.
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