1988 in Quebec
This page relates to the year 1988 Gregorian Calendrier.
Chronology of the history of Quebec 1988 - 1989 in Quebec
Events
January 6th: Hydro-Quebec sign a contract of $17 billion with the State New York. It is its more big contract of electricity since its creation.
January 22nd: Rene and Nathalie Simard announces a turning of their career with their new album Tourne the page.
February 8th: Pauline Marois announces that it joins with Jacques Parizeau.
February 14th: The commission Rochon on the services and the health care submits his report. The universality and the exemption from payment must be maintained; regional controls must be created; the federal one must grant a better financial contribution with the system.
February 14th: The federal minister Michel Côté must resign of the cabinet Mulroney. It is shown to have granted hundreds of contracts without tender.
February 24th: The police officer Allan Gossett is discharged murder of Anthony Griffin. The black community of Montreal shouts with the injustice.
February 26th: Highway 20 takes the name of highway Jean-Lesage.
March 17th: Jacques Parizeau becomes officially president of the Parti Québécois.
March 22nd: D' Iberville Fortier, police chief with the official languages, declares that Quebec humiliates the english-speaking while seeking to promote French. Robert Bourassa qualifies these remarks d'" unrealistic and unwise ". The National Assembly adopts a motion of blame at its place.
April 2nd: Lucien Bouchard becomes Secretary of State to Ottawa.
April 17th: 25,000 demonstrators claim French Quebec in Montreal. The demonstration was organized by the Société Saint-Jean-Baptist and the National movement of the Inhabitants of Quebec.
April 18th: General power failure through Quebec.
April 19th: The media announce that the government of Quebec pay of lawyers to dispute the Loi 101 in Supreme court.
April 26th: Gary Filmon gains the election manitobaine. It does not intend, for the moment, to ratify the Accord of the lake Meech.
April 29th: Lucien Bouchard announces his preserving candidature in the district of Lake Midsummer's Day at the time of the next by-election.
May 11th: Yvon Charbonneau leaves the presidency of CEQ.
May 12th: The budget of Gerard D. Lévesque announces a general fall of tax as well as the granting of $3000 for a third child.
May 25th: The Circus of the Sun triumph to New York.
May 29th: The archbishop of Montreal, Mgr Paul Gregoire, is named cardinal.
June 7th: Lucien Bouchard promises the establishment from the Space agency in Montreal.
June 9th: The company Steinberg gives an official opinion of collective redundancy of its 12,000 employees.
June 14th: The Conseil of the French language concludes that the concept of distinct Société is fuzzy and empty.
June 20th: Lucien Bouchard gains the federal by-election of Lake Midsummer's Day.
June 20th: PLQ gains the bys-election of Anjou and Roberval.
June 20th: Steinberg and the trade union signs an agreement in principle allowing to save the company.
June 22nd: The House of Commons ratifies the Accord of the lake Meech.
June 27th: Lorraine Page becomes the new president of CEQ.
June 27th: André Bourbeau becomes the new person in charge of the reform of the social security, thus succeeding Pierre Paradis.
July 7th: Newfoundland ratifies the Agreement of the lake Meech. There remain nothing any more but the Parliaments of the New Brunswick and the Manitoba to officialize it.
July 8th: Allan Gossett is congédié police force of Montreal.
July 14th: The American Congrès adopts the agreement of free trade.
July 29th: Lucien Bouchard defends the C-172 bill, which makes it possible the federal government to grant subsidies at various organizations so that they offer bilingual services, but states not to want to impose bilingualism on Quebec.
August 3rd: The roof of the Olympic stadium tears at the time of a storm.
August 18th: Guy Lafleur announces his return to the play. It signs a two year old contract with the Rangers of New York.
August 23rd: 20,000 gallons of BPC flame with Saint-Basile-the-Large. 2000 people are evacuated.
August 29th: Quebec announces that it will bring an financial aid to the disaster victims of Saint-Basile.
August 29th: The Department of the Environment recognizes that the warehouse of Saint-Basile had not been inspected since May 1987. Later, an employee of garage, Alain Chapleau, will voluntarily admit to have put fire.
August 31st: The House of Commons ratifies the agreement of free trade.
September 9th: The population of Saint-Basile can now return to it.
September 21st: The preacher Pierre Lacroix is shown acts of indecency opposite three teenagers.
September 29th: Left the book trapped Following days of Claude Morin, telling the history of the constitutional negotiations between the referendum of 1980 and the night of the Long Knives of 1981.
October 1st: The minimum wage with $4.75.
October 7th: Announces that the incident of Saint-Basile cost $15 million the government of Quebec.
October 13rd: 250 police officers invest Akwesasne and raflent for $200,000 of illegal cigarettes. The Mohawks threaten to block the bridge connecting Canada to the United States.
October 15th: The Orphelins of Duplessis require a compensation for the pangs which they underwent in asylums and the hospitals which lodged them time of their childhood during the years 1940 and 1950.
October 23rd: Céline Dion gains 4 Felix with the Gala of the ADISQ. The revelation of the year is Mitsou.
November 21st: The Conservative party of Brian Mulroney gains the general elections and will form a majority government. In Quebec, the result is of 63 conservatives elected against only 12 liberal .
November 25th: An earthquake of magnitude 6 on the scale Richter shakes the south of Quebec, depriving 350,000 people of electricity and making thousands of dollars of damage. The area of Quebec and the Saguenay-Lake Midsummer's Day are particularly touched.
25- November 27th: The congress of PQ to Saint-Hyacinthe vote of the resolutions concerning a reinforcement of the Law 101, the parity of social security and the installation of sovereignty after the vote of a majority of voters. Pauline Marois becomes vice-president of the party.
November 28th: The Nordiques of Quebec are bought by a formed consortium of Marcel Aubut, Solidarity funds FTQ, Mutuelle of Quebec, Daishowa and Subway-Richelieu.
December 13rd: The reform of the social security is adopted with the National Assembly.
December 15th: The Supreme court statue which the government of Quebec can require the prevalence of French in the language of posting but cannot force the tradesmen to employ exclusively only this language.
December 18th: The government files in the project of Loi 178 allowing bilingual posting inside the trade. The clause notwithstanding is used to maintain outside the unilinguism French.
December 19th: The Manitoba is dissociated definitively from the Accord of the lake Meech.
December 20th: Clifford Lincoln, Herbert Marx and Richard French resigns of the government to protest against law 178.
December 31st: The agreement of free trade between Canada and the United States between into force.
Births
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March 24th: Roxanne Gaudette-Loiseau (actress)
- August 7th: Jonathan Bernier (hockey player)
Death
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January 24th: Claude Midsummer's Day (fighter)
- January 27th: Guy Sanche (actor)
- February 12th: Lucie Mitchell (actress)
- February 16th: Jean Carignan (violonist)
- June 19th: Fernand Séguin (scientist, organizer and journalist)
- July 22nd: Andre Rufiange (journalist)
- August 8th: Felix Leclerc (singer, poet and writer)
- August 28th: Commercial Jean (politicking)
- September 17th: Jacques Beauchamp (sports correspondent)
- November 1st: Alfred Pellan (painter)
Internal bonds
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