1983 in Quebec

This page relates to the year 1983 Gregorian Calendrier.

Chronology of the history of Quebec

1982 in Quebec - 1983 - 1984 in Quebec

Events

January 25th: Beginning of a general strike in the public sector to protest against law 105, adopted in December 1982 and issuing the collective agreements for the three next years.

January 28th: 33,000 strikers express in front of the National Assembly.

January 31st: FAS finally decides to accept the last governmental offers.

February 7th: Announces that the Manic of Montreal will play its last season. The financial losses are the main reason.

February 14th: The National Assembly adopts law 111, obliging the teachers to turn over to work. The incurred sorrows are very severe in the event of non-observance of the law.

February 18th: CEQ decides to recommend to its members to turn over to work.

March 3rd: Esso announces the closing of its refinery of Montreal-Is before the end of the year.

March 5th: At the time of a national council of PQ, several ministers whose Camille Laurin, Gerald Godin and Denis Lazure, is hustled by trade-union demonstrators in anger.

March 14th: The government Lévesque announces the injection of $700 million in the economic revival.

March 16th: the Press announces in cuffs that Rene Lévesque would have misled the National Assembly in 1979 when he declared that his office had not been implied in the negotiations concerning the payment except course between the Company of Development of the James Bay and FTQ, on the confusion of LG-2 to the Baie James.

March 17th: The Superior court statue which law 105 is unconstitutional because it was written only in French. Quebec decides to go in call.

March 23rd: Inauguration of the third session of the 32ème Legislature.

March 25th: The deputy Gilles Gregoire is accused of seven diversions the minor ones.

April 18th: The teachers agree to sign a 3 years collective agreement following a report/ratio of conciliation.

April 28th: Serge Savard becomes the new managing director of the Canadian of Montreal.

May 9th: During an interview, the president of the CIO, Lord Killanin, states that Jean Drapeau is the person in charge of the exorbitant cost of the Olympic Games of Montreal in 1976.

May 10th: The budget Parizeau announces a deficit of $3,785 billion for the year 1983-1984.

May 24th: Beginning of the lawsuit of Gilles Gregoire.

May 27th: Inauguration of the Palate of the Congresses in Montreal.

June 1st: Claude Charron leaves his autobiography, Désobéir . For the first time, it makes public its homosexuality.

June 2nd: Rene Lévesque swears in parliamentary commission that it did not mislead the National Assembly in connection with the payment out-course on the confusion of LG-2.

June 8th: PQ announces that it has nothing any more but 130,000 members. It had 200,000 in 1980 of them.

June 9th: The Court of Appeal of Quebec declares unconstitutional the clause Quebec of the Loi 101.

June 12th: Brian Mulroney succeeds Joe Clark as chief of the Conservative party of Canada.

June 17th: Rene Lévesque continues the Press for $900,000 for attack with its reputation.

June 20th: PLQ gains the bys-election of Saint-Jacob, Saguenay and Charlesbourg.

June 21st: Quebec nationalizes the company of aviation Quebecair.

June 23rd: The Solidarity funds of the FTQ is officially created.

June 28th: In visit in France, Rene Lévesque sign an agreement with the industry group Pechiney which begins to build an aluminum factory with Bécancour.

July 14th: Gilles Gregoire two year of prison old scoop and a fine of $2900.

July 14th: Attack of an incurable cancer, Marie-Andree Leclerc, which purge a custodial sentence for complicity of murder in India, request to return to the country. Ten days later, it is of return to Quebec.

July 15th: Daniel Johnson announces her candidature for the cheffery of PLQ.

August 8th: Pierre Paradis announces in his turn its entry in the race with the cheffery of the PLQ.

August 11th: Robert Bourassa is the third candidate to be presented to the nomination of the PLQ. The surveys give it already gaining.

August 15th: Quebec announces the creation of an advisory committee charged to study a new disease, the AIDS.

August 19th: Announces that the mandate of CECO will end in December.

September 26th: Gerald Larose succeeds Donatien Corriveau with the head of CSN. The vice-president is Monique Simard.

September 29th: A tanker presses a pile-up of vehicles and explodes on the Autoroute 20 with Holy-Madeleine, making 5 dead. The pile-up was due to the fog.

October 2nd: The national council of PQ supports the arrival of the nationalist Parti Marcel Leger in Ottawa.

October 4th: Deposit of a bill aiming at making pay the tax with the employees with tip.

October 10th: The inhabitants of Large-Valley violently express on the road 132, protesting against the closing of the factory Knack-Shocks, a sawmill of the place. Although the government announces its reopening before the end of 1984, the population remains skeptic.

October 16th: Robert Bourassa gains the congress with the direction of the Liberal party. It obtains 2138 votes against 353 for Pierre Paradis and 343 for Daniel Johnson. The two other candidates join immediately.

October 20th: the Press festival its 100 years.

October 25th: Announces that the consumers will be able to get wine in the grocers and the break-down mechanics starting from the November 7th.

October 30th: At the time of the Official reception of the ADISQ, Céline Dion gains the Felix revelation of the year and female interpreter of the year.

November 13rd: Rene Lévesque announces a new economic revival program, putting the emphase on the installation of a programme of financing of SME (small and medium-size companies), the creation of 18,000 seasonal jobs in forest and the prolongation of Drudgery-Dwelling until in July 1984.

November 24th: Pierre Marois announces his withdrawal of the political life. Pauline Marois succeeds to him as Minister for the Labor and the Safety of the income.

December 5th: The liberals gain the bys-election in Jonquière and Mégantic-Compton.

December 9th: In visit in Italy, Rene Lévesque makes odd when he declares that the Italian president Sandro Pertini entrusted to him in deprived that he did not have a very high opinion of Canada. Dissatisfied, this one returns to him its special passport for the festivals of Quebec 84.

December 22nd: Beginning of the business of Rock'n'roll Forest. Two police officers open fire through a door of cabin of the motel Châtillon , wounding the layer of carpet Serge Beaudoin and killing his companion and colleague Jean-Paul Beaumont. They believed to deal with the protagonists of holdup made in a shopping mall of the Estrie a few days before and where an agent of the Brinks had found death.

Births

Death

  • January 31st: J. Léo Gagnon (actor)

  • March 8th: Robert Rumilly (historian)
  • March 16th: Fred Pink (politicking)
  • May 16th: Réal Béland (humorist and actor)
  • May 25th: Johnnie Rougeau (fighter and business man)
  • July 17th: Paul Desrochers (business man)
  • August 28th: Emile Legault (priest and organizer)
  • October 21st: Yves Thériault (writer)

Internal bonds

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