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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 Parti Québécois ([paʁti kebekwa], lit. ' Quebec Party ', PQ) is a sovereignist [8] and social democratic [2] [9] [10] [11] 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.
Former party leader Daniel Paillé was also a PQ member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 1996, and a BQ member of Parliament from 2009 to 2011. In June 2014, Mario Beaulieu , a former PQ riding president and Bloc candidate, was elected leader of the Bloc Québécois.
(Bloomberg) -- Talk of independence is largely hushed in Quebec these days, yet the federal separatist party is rising from the abyss and could soon hold sway in Canada once again.Just a year ago ...
MSA leader René Lévesque was elected president of the PQ, and RN leader Gilles Grégoire became vice-president. On October 26 Pierre Bourgault, leader of the RIN, dissolved the party and invited its members to join the PQ. The short-lived MSA had served its purpose: sovereigntist forces in Quebec were united under a single party.
The Front de libération du Québec [a] (FLQ) was a militant Quebec separatist group which aimed to establish an independent and socialist Quebec through violent means. [3] [4] It was a terrorist group, and was labeled as such by the Canadian government.
However, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien regarded Reform leader Preston Manning as his main opponent on non-Quebec matters. For example, in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President Bill Clinton by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Manning was also granted a meeting with Clinton in order to diffuse Bouchard's ...
Leader MNAs Coalition Avenir Québec: 2011 Quebec nationalism, Quebec federalism, national conservatism, economic liberalism: François Legault: 86 Quebec Liberal Party: 1867 Quebec federalism, economic liberalism, liberalism: Marc Tanguay (interim) 19 Québec solidaire: 2006 Quebec sovereignty, democratic socialism, environmentalism