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The Conservative Party of Quebec (CPQ; French: Parti conservateur du Québec, pronounced [paʁti kɔ̃sɛʁvatœʁ dy kebɛk], PCQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. It was authorized on 25 March 2009 by the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec . [ 2 ]
Parti communiste du Québec 1921–2002; Parti ouvrier-progressiste 1943–1959; Union des électeurs 1944–1948; Parti social-démocratique 1955–1959; Parti républicain du Québec 1962–1964; Parti socialiste du Québec 1963–1968; Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec 1963–1994; Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale 1964–1968
Also P.Q. is unofficially used, short for Province de Québec. [4] Later, PQ evolved from P.Q. as the first two-letter non-punctuated abbreviation. Later still, QC evolved as the second two-letter non-punctuated abbreviation, making Quebec's abbreviation consistent with other provinces insofar as using letters solely from the name of the ...
Apr 2 May 6 Jun 20 Aug 2 Aug 16 Sep 1 Liberal: 179 177 Conservative: 97 96 95 New Democratic: 41 40 39 Bloc Québécois: 10 Green: 1 2 Co-operative Commonwealth: 1 People's: 1 Independent: 5 7 8 Total members 335 336 335 334 333 Government majority 24 22 21 22 23 Vacant 3 2 3 4 5
Quebec's census divisions consist of numerous census subdivisions. The types of census subdivisions within a Quebec census division may include: [ 1 ] cities and towns ( ville ), "ordinary" municipalities ( municipalité ), parish municipalities ( paroisse ), townships ( canton ) and united townships ( cantons unis ), villages ( village )
Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French: conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies.
The Parti progressiste conservateur du Québec (Eng: Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec) was formed in 1982 with Denis Carignan as leader but was rebuffed by federal Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark who told them to keep their distance.
The objective of the Répertoire was to "identify, preserve, and make known the heritage of all regions of Quebec". [4] Those properties which were protected under the Cultural Property Act of 1972 (French: la Loi sur les biens culturels) were included on the Register of Cultural Property (French: Registre des biens culturels).