1990 in Quebec

This page relates to the year 1990 Gregorian Calendrier.

Chronology of the history of Quebec

1989 in Quebec - 1990 - 1991 in Quebec

Events

January 15th: Martial Asselin is named lieutenant-governor of Quebec to succeed Gilles Lamontagne.

January 23rd: The proposal of Bill Vander Zalm to save the Accord of the lake Meech is made public. It suggests that Canada has " 12 distinct companies " (10 provinces and 2 territories). Although Ottawa is said ready to negotiate, the government of Quebec rejects it from the start.

January 30th: The town of Sault-Holy-Marie in Ontario adopts a unilingual resolution declaring itself English. She wants to thus protest against law 178 in Quebec.

February 6th: 27 Ontarian municipalities, whose Thunder Bay, is declared in their turn unilingual English.

February 8th: Inauguration of the Insectarium of Montreal.

February 12th: Philippe Edmunston is elected appointed federal of Chambly. He is the first candidate néo-democrat to gain a victory in Quebec.

March 3rd: Following the adoption of a resolution of the municipality of Oka to increase the golf course at the expense of the pine forest of Kanesatake, the Mohawks of the place occupy the wooded one in question and block two ways leading to the city. It is the prelude to the Crise of Oka.

March 17th: Maurice Seams and Jean-Claude Turcotte becomes archbishops of Quebec and Montreal. They succeed respectively Louis-Albert Vachon and Paul Gregoire.

March 20th: The film Jesus of Montreal gains 13 Prix Genius in Toronto.

March 21st: Frank McKenna of the New Brunswick makes known a proposal aiming at amending the Accord of the lake Meech so that it is more acceptable with the anglophone provinces. One of the amendments proposes the obligation for Ottawa to protect the linguistic duality in each province.

March 22nd: In spite of the reserves of Quebec, Ottawa decides to create a committee chaired by the minister Jean Charest with an aim of studying the McKenna proposal.

April 5th: Newfoundland withdraws officially its support with the agreement of the lake Meech.

April 6th: PLQ creates a committee directed by Jean Allaire in order to prepare the Meech after-lake.

April 11th: The judge Denys Dionne excuses finally remarks which had raised an general outcry in January 1989. He had then declared: " Any rule is made, like a woman, to be violated ".

April 23rd: 200,000 tires burn in the dump of Holy-Anne-of-Plains. The fire would be of criminal origin.

April 26th: Gerard D. Lévesque makes public its fourth budget. The deficit envisaged is of $1.8 billion; a surtax on alcohol and the tobacco is announced; the family benefits pass to $6000 to the birth of a third child.

May 10th: Brian Mulroney comes to a conclusion in favor of a compromise about the lake Meech.

May 16th: A new fire bursts in another dump with tires, this time at Saint-Amable.

May 17th: The Charest report/ratio is presented, endorsing all the McKenna proposal.

May 19th: Lucien Bouchard, in visit in Paris, sends a telegram to greet the national council of the Parti Québécois with Alma and to commemorate the " 10 one key period years in Quebec " , thus referring to the tenth birthday of the referendum of 1980.

May 21st: Of return to Ottawa, Lucien Bouchard resigns officially of the Mulroney cabinet. There remains appointed independent.

May 22nd: The preserving deputy Gilbert Chartrand announces in his turn his resignation. " Mr. Lévesque, you were right " , declares he with the House of Commons.

May 23rd: Lucien Bouchard makes a speech in front of the Chamber of commerce of Montreal. It is ovationné during 3 minutes - never considering.

3 June 8th: A conference of the last chance is held in Ottawa. The Prime Ministers manage an agreement to save the Accord of the lake Meech. The concept of distinct Société is preserved but the anglophone provinces manage to make endorse by Quebec certain amendments of the McKenna proposal.

June 12th: With the Manitoba, the attempt at Gary Filmon to make ratify the agreement is blocked by the indigenous deputy Elijah Harper which deplores that the autochtones of Canada were not consulted.

June 22nd: Newfoundland, Clyde Wells gives up making ratify the agreement. It is the death of the Accord of the lake Meech. With the National Assembly, Robert Bourassa declares that Quebec will be always " a company distinct, free and able to assume its destiny and its development ".

June 23rd: Jean Chrétien is elected chief of PLC. Jean Lapierre and Gilles Rocheleau claquent the door of the party.

June 29th: Robert Bourassa and Jacques Parizeau is intended to create a parliamentary commission charged to consult the speakers on the constitutional and political future of Quebec.

July 11th: The Mohawks always block the way of Oka. The raid carried out by SQ for dislodging about it is a complete failure. The corporal Marcel Lemay is killed during the confrontation. Mohawks of Kahnawake block the Pont Draper to support the claims of the Warriors of Kanesatake.

12 July 13rd: The talks of John Ciaccia to untie the dead end are a failure.

July 17th: SQ must push back an attack of the population which wants to free the Pont Draper.

July 25th: Foundation of the Québécois Block by Lucien Bouchard.

August 8th: The army comes to lend strong hand to the SQ with Oka and Châteauguay. Allan B. Gold is named federal mediator.

August 12th: Violence bursts with Châteauguay where 400 demonstrators face the police officers of SQ and of GRC. Those use irritating gases to disperse them.

August 17th: Gilles Duceppe gains the by-election of Bay-tree-Holy-Marie. He is the first deputy elected bloquist.

August 22nd: Michel Bélanger and Jean Campeau will chair the parliamentary commission on the constitutional future of Quebec.

August 30th: Quebec announces the creation of a TVQ (tax of sale of Quebec) which must be harmonized with the TPS (tax on the products and services) federal.

September 1st: The Pont Draper is finally freed.

September 3rd: Encircled by the army, the Mohawks are now confined with the pine forest of Oka.

September 12th: The minister Yves Séguin resigns in order to protest against the creation of the TVQ.

September 26th: The Warriors finally agree to go. It is the end of the Crise of Oka.

October 5th: Robert Bourassa announces a cabinet reshuffle. Claude Ryan becomes Minister for Public safety and the municipal Businesses, Christos Sirros deputy secretary with the Businesses autochtones and Sam Elkas Minister for Transport.

October 21st: At the time of the Official reception of the ADISQ, Céline Dion refuses her trophy of anglophone interpreter of the year.

November 1st: Keith Spicer is named with the head of a federal commission charged to probe the Canadians on the way in which they see the future of the country.

November 5th: Beginning of the audiences of the Commission Bélanger-Campeau.

November 29th: Claude Brochu becomes the new owner of the Expos of Montreal.

December 7th: The Minister for Health, Marc-Yvan Side, makes known his reform which imposes affluent expenses on the good and sets up a user fee to encourage people to arise more to the urgencies without sufficient reason. Ottawa is opposed to the Côté reform.

December 8th: Marguerite d' Youville is canonized.

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