1981 in Quebec
This page relates to the year 1981 Gregorian Calendrier.
Chronology of the history of Quebec
Events
January 9th: Roch the Room is named chief of the National union.
January 19th: Quebec announces that the Cris and the Inuits will have their own police bodies since 1985.
January 29th: The committee of the foreign relations of the British House of Commons recommends to this one the rejection of the Trudeau project.
February 3rd: Court of Appeal of the Manitoba statue which the federal government can repatriate the Constitution without the agreement of the provinces.
February 5th: Lise Payette announces its withdrawal of the political life.
February 12th: A petition of 700,000 signatories being opposed to a repatriation of the Constitution without the agreement of Quebec east given to Rene Lévesque.
February 27th: Louis O' Neill announces his withdrawal of the political life.
March 5th: The Court of Appeal of Quebec states that the project of the government of exproprier the Asbestos Corporation is legal.
March 10th: Jacques Parizeau presents its fifth budget whose deficit rises to $2.97 billion. The tax of sale on the refrigerators and the cookers is abolished. The cigarette pack increases by 4 hundreds.
March 12th: Rene Lévesque announces general elections for on April 13rd.
March 16th: The Supreme court maintains the decision of the Court of Appeal concerning the expropriation of the Asbestos Corporation .
March 19th: Florent Cantin is recognized guilty fire of Chapais. He will bail out 8 years of prison, pains which will be then decreased at 2 years.
March 25th: Parizeau declares that the Asbestos has until March 31st to mean its intention to him to negotiate if not he will undertake the procedures of expropriation.
March 31st: Court of Appeal of Newfoundland statue that Ottawa cannot repatriate the Constitution without the agreement of the provinces.
April 1st: The minimum wage with $3.85.
April 2nd: Pierre Trudeau submits his project to the Supreme court.
April 3rd: Louis-Albert Vachon succeeds Maurice Roy as archbishop of Quebec.
April 3rd: The Beaudry commission presents his report/ratio on the drama of Belmoral, a mine of Val of Gold where 8 minors found death in May 1980. Its conclusions show that the leaders of the mine are the persons in charge of the catastrophe because they showed negligence guilty.
April 7th: First of the film Plouffe .
April 9th: Claude Dubois is stopped and shown traffic of heroin.
April 13rd: The Parti Québécois gains the general elections with 80 counties and 49% of the vote. The Liberal party obtains 42 seats and 46% of the vote. The National union is again striped chart.
April 15th: The Court of Appeal of Quebec declares that the Trudeau project is legal.
April 17th: Provincial the Prime Ministers meet and sign an agreement on the prerequisites with the repatriation of the Constitution. Rene Lévesque agree to give up the Québécois right to veto against a right of retirement with compensation (the opting out ).
April 17th: First match of the Manic of Montreal to the Olympic stadium.
April 30th: Rene Lévesque announces a cabinet reshuffle. Jean-François Bertrand becomes Minister of Transport. Jacques Parizeau is lightened Conseil of the treasure for which the responsibility falls to Yves Bérubé.
May 24th: The felquist Marc Carbonneau goes back to Quebec after nearly 11 years of exile.
June 8th: the Duty takes again its publication after two months of strike of its employees.
June 21st: Gilles Villeneuve gains the automobile Grand Prix of Spain Formulates 1 of them.
June 24th: A procession of Midsummer's Day takes place in Montreal for the first time since the events of 1968.
July 5th: Claude Dubois is recognized guilty of heroin traffic.
July 20th: A shooting bursts with Restigouche implying SQ and the Micmacs. The Indian reserve is in crisis since the imposition of fishing permit to the Indians by Quebec.
August 4th: Camil Samson announces that it puts an end to his political career. He had been liberal candidate demolishes at the time of the last elections.
August 13rd: Provincial the Prime Ministers meet in Ottawa and discuss the economic situation which has nothing but done worsen for a few months.
August 25th: The McDonald report/ratio makes public his report/ratio on the illegal activities of GRC.
September 4th: The Association of the hospitals denounces the last budgetary cuts in health. According to it, these compressions will result in the abolition of 6000 stations and a reduction of the direct services to the population.
September 21st: Paul Pink is freed for 48 hours.
September 28th: The Supreme court statue which the unilateral repatriation of the Constitution is legal but not legitimates if it does not obtain the assent of a " number; substantial " provinces.
September 29th: Rene Lévesque convenes the National Assembly to deposit a motion requiring of Ottawa to give up a unilateral repatriation.
October 1st: The minimum wage with $4 the hour.
October 2nd: Lévesque motion is voted to 111 vote against 9.
October 4th: Martine St-Clearly is the revelation of the year to the third Official reception of the ADISQ. Diane Such gains 4 trophies of which that of female interpreter of the year.
October 9th: Quebec announces that the Asbestos Corporation will be expropriée on November 20th if the negotiations do not succeed.
October 20th: Trudeau convenes a federal-provincial conference for on November 2nd.
October 28th: Quebec announces a hole of $400 million in the budget. Other cuts are to be envisaged.
2 November 5th: Federal-provincial conference on the Constitution. Following the night of the Long Knives, Ottawa manages an agreement with 9 provinces except Quebec. The Constitution will be repatriated and supplied of a Charter of the rights and a formula of amendment. The West and the Atlantic Provinces obtain a froit regional veto but not Quebec. The request for right of retirement with compensation was abandoned. Rene Lévesque, land-mark, speaks about " ashamed treason " and of " fraud ". He is opposed to the articles concerning the mobility of the labor, which is likely to compromise the provincial programs of job creation, like with the clauses on the rights of the linguistic minorities, which can make illegal certain provisions of the Loi 101.
November 9th: At the time of a speech to the National Assembly, Rene Lévesque underlines the gravity of the economic situation and speaks for the first time to call in question the collective agreements.
December 2nd: The constitutional agreement is ratified with the House of Commons. In Quebec, the flag is in Bern.
December 4th: Statistiques Canada announces that Quebec lost 67,000 employment in one year. Unemployment rate was to 11.5% in November.
December 6th: The congress of PQ puts at the rancart the concept of association and adopts a resolution stating that a government pequist would proclaim the independence of Quebec without to have obtained an absolute majority of the voices additional clause an electoral victory. Lévesque threatens to resign.
December 13rd: Rene Lévesque announces an internal referendum near the militants of the PQ to make cancel the discussed resolutions of the congress.
Births
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February 10th: Natasha St-Pier (singer)
- June 5th: Sebastien Lefebvre (guitarist)
- August 29th: Genevieve Jeanson (cyclist)
- December 14th: Emilie Heymans (plunger)
Death
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February 22nd: Ti-White Richard (violonist)
- April 14th: George Marler (politicking)
- May 9th: Jacques Strainer (singer)
- May 25th: Charles-Emile Gadbois (priest)
- July 1st: Chick of Varennes (actress)
- July 20th: Roger Doucet (singer)
- November 23rd: Therese Casgrain (militant feminist)
Internal bonds
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