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[5] [6] After a merger with the Ralliement national led by Gilles Grégoire, the Sovereignty-Association Movement founded a new provincial political party, the Parti Québécois, which placed René Lévesque's Sovereignty-Association idea at the heart of its program. René Lévesque was elected leader of this new party on October 14, 1968.
Rene: a Canadian in search of a country, McClelland and Stewart, 223 pages ISBN 0-7710-2691-9; Dupont, Pierre (1977). How Levesque Won, Lorimer, 136 pages ISBN 0-88862-130-2 (translated by Sheila Fischman) Fennario, David (2003). The Death of René Lévesque, Talonbooks, March 10, 72 pages ISBN 0-88922-480-3; Fournier, Claude (1995).
The Mouvement Souveraineté-Association (MSA, English: Movement for Sovereignty-Association) was a separatist [1] movement formed on November 19, 1967 by René Lévesque to promote the concept of sovereignty-association between Quebec and the rest of Canada.
The goal of Quebec's sovereignist movement is to make Quebec an independent state. In practice, the terms independentist, sovereignist, and separatist are used to describe people adhering to this movement, although the latter term is perceived as pejorative by those concerned as it de-emphasizes that the sovereignty project aims to achieve political independence without severing economic ...
The 1973 Quebec general election was held on October 29, 1973 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, Canada.The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Premier Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, and the Union Nationale (UN).
The Champions is a three-part Canadian documentary mini-series on the lives of Canadian political titans and adversaries Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque.. Directed by Donald Brittain and co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the series follows Trudeau and Lévesque from their early years until their fall from power in the mid 1980s.
The Carroll case provided fodder for political attacks against Trump, including when Trump said in now-public deposition video that he mistook a photo of Carroll for his former wife Marla Maples, ...
Occurring soon after the Quiet Revolution, and taking into account the low economic and political state of French Canadians at the time, the support of a foreign head of state seemed to add credibility to the movement in the eyes of many, including future Quebec premier René Lévesque. [20] [21]