Andre Boisclair

Andre Boisclair M.A.N (born on April 14th, 1966 with Montreal), is a Politician Québécois, former chief of the Parti Québécois (November 2005 in May 2007) and old Chef the official opposition to the National Assembly of Quebec (October 2006 in March 2007). The May 8th 2007, it announced its resignation as chief of the Québécois Party. Then, on October 15th, 2007 in Quebec, it made known its intention to leave its station of deputy. November 15th, 2007, two years day for day after being elected with the head of the PQ, this decision took effect.

Professional path

Deputy with the National Assembly of Quebec

André Boisclair is elected for the first time Député of the provincial electoral constituency of Gouin the September 25th, 1989. 23 years old, he then becomes the youngest member of Parliament elected with the National Assembly of the history of Quebec. He is re-elected in the same district in 1994, that is to say a little more than 16 month before being appointed Minister for the Relations with the citizens and Immigration by Lucien Bouchard.

With the elections of 1998, André Boisclair is again renewed in its functions of deputy. It occupies the post of minister of the Social solidarity of 1998 to 2001. In 2002, it is named minister of environment and for the municipal Businesses, function which it occupies until the elections of April 14th, 2003, gained this time by the Liberal party of Quebec. In spite of the defeat of his party, André Boisclair is once again re-elected in Gouin.

As minister of environment, André Boisclair set up a moratorium on the porcine production. During the second official debate of the race to the cheffery of 2005, his/her colleague Richard Legendre reproached him his attitude with respect to the farmers, whom he considers responsible for an important loss of supports.

Studies in Boston

He resigns however of his station of deputy on August 17th, 2004, in order to continue studies in Public administration off with the John F. Kennedy School Government, located on the campus of Harvard, with Boston. It is the occasion for him to comment on the policy on its Blog ue, communications tools still little used by the Québécois politicians at this time.

In October 2005, Lysiane Gagnon, chroniqueuse of the newspaper the Press , calls into question the value of its diploma obtained to the the United States, stressing that one cannot have of control without having at least a baccalaureat. Summoned to retract following an injunction emitted at its place, it is carried out two days later.

Chief of the Québécois Party

June 17th, 2005, André Boisclair announces his candidature for the race with the cheffery of the Québécois Party. Largely at the head in the surveys since the beginning of its countryside, he is finally elected chief of the Québécois Party on November 15th, 2005, with the first ballot. He carries it with 53,68% of the votes (56 503 votes), in front of Pauline Marois, his nearer rival, which obtains 30,6% of the voices.

A few weeks after, the Québécois Party decides to allot to him wages from approximately 120.000 $ per year, drawn directly in the contributions of the members. This decision was very discussed at the militants pequists.

Then, the population and the journalists complain, during the months, of her absences and her lack of visibility. He answers these criticisms by affirming that he moves much and that he privileges the work of ground in order to rebuild the organizations local pequists.

August 14th, 2006, André Boisclair makes his return to the National Assembly of Quebec, following his victory at the time of a by-election in the district of Point-with-Tremble (Is of Montreal). He succeeds then the deputy Nicole Leger (at its sides on the photograph above). He is later sworn in one week, reaching under chief of the official opposition of the National Assembly of Quebec, thus replacing Louise Harel, which had taken over temporarily the duties of it since the resignation of Bernard Landry, on June 6th, 2005.

At the time of a National council of the Québécois Party in October 2006, he refuses to subject himself to a resolution on the environment voted by a majority of the delegates present. Whereas its militants recommend the nationalization of the wind energy, this idea judges to him too much daring .

This decision is criticized by several members of the party, but is greeted by chroniclers of the Press and newspaper the Duty . With Matane, on December 19th, 2006, André Boisclair confirms his decision not to nationalize wind energy, expressing agreement so that Hydro-Quebec proceeds by invitations to tender with the private sector, but demanding that the government frames in a clear way the development of the wind production.

Towards the end of the year, André Boisclair agrees to play in a sketch of the masked Justiciers , diffused in the night of the new year (2007). This sketch parodied discussed the film the Secrecy of Brokeback Mountain , bearing on the homosexuality of two married men. Its participation in this humorous sketch raised an outcry. The journalist Denise Bombardier claimed besides that the sketch was not funny whole and disparaged the homosexual ones. Also, she asked André Boisclair to resign, under pretext which he was not with the height of his function.

In January 2007, André Boisclair affirms that his government would not make a copinage towards the trade unions, showing with the passage his predecessors of favoritism towards these groups.

The next month, following a survey devastator, Bernard Landry violently criticizes the leadership of its successor, considering it responsible for the failure for its party (past from 50% to 30% in one year and half; the option souverainist having also fallen) and inviting it to more humility and of modesty. As for Yves Michaud, it goes even until claiming its resignation.

The electoral campaign of 2007

March 4th, 2007, André Boisclair is emotive in a speech on homosexuality and the sexism. He receives the supports of Henri Massé, president of a central trade-union, Gilles Duceppe, chief of the Québécois, and Jacques Parizeau, old Bloc Prime Minister for Quebec and chief of the Parti Québécois. At the time of the Affaire Philpot, during which one of its candidates, Robin Philpot, is made show to deny the Rwandan genocide, he says himself embarrassed, then defends his candidate.

The liberal show André Boisclair of inconsistency in the file of the prolongation of the Autoroute 30. During the countryside, disillusioned pequists publicly take their distances vis-a-vis their party. Also, André Boisclair is obliged to dialog with the former sympathizers of his party. According to the analysts, it is him which has to gain more during the debate of the chiefs, which proves finalement a tie, although itself or Mario Dumont is perceived like most powerful.

March 16th, André Boisclair announces that the Québécois Party could hold a referendum even in the event of minority government, and that it would be ready to do of them several of continuation until the victory of YES. Jacques Parizeau and Bernard Landry will affirm on the other hand that this gesture would be impossible. For the first time, a survey gives him a light advance, on March 17th. The 18, whereas he courts the Socialists, Dumont affirms on the other hand that he is the prisoner of the bunch SPQ Libre.

The day of the poll, on March 26th, the Québécois Party makes elect 36 deputies, which is its worst electoral result since 1989, when Jacques Parizeau had been demolishes by Robert Bourassa. Moreover, of absolute number of votes, this result is lower than that of the party in 1970, at the time of Rene Lévesque. The party nevertheless succeeded in preserving certain districts which are traditionally favorable for him (in particular with the Saguenay-Lake-Saint-Jean, in Gaspésie, Abitibi and in the east of Montreal).

In spite of the open dispute of his direction, André Boisclair affirms to want to remain with the head of the Québécois Party. He then becomes chief of the second group of opposition, the democratic Action of Quebec forming the new official opposition.

After March 26th, 2007

Following the defeat at the polls of the Left Québécois, the March 26th, 2007, rumors circulate as for the replacement of Andre Boisclair to the head of the party. At the same time, Boisclair affirms that sovereignty became unrealizable and that the Québécois Party must demolish promise to hold a referendum as soon as possible in a first mandate, approach which it had however defended high and strong throughout the countryside.

Some believe that it must be replaced by the chief of the Québécois Bloc, Gilles Duceppe. In an interview that it grants to the beginning of May 2007, André Boisclair denounces what, for him, are operations aiming at dislodging it. He then mentions the name of Gilles Duceppe, whom he says in favor of the “national assertion”, current of which he is wary. May 8th, 2007, having lost the support of the majority of the deputies of sound Caucus, André Boisclair announces finally his resignation as chief of the Québécois Party. He specifies nevertheless that he will preserve his station of deputy of Point-with-Tremble. Following this resignation, the ex-candidate pequist Réjean Thomas declares that André Boisclair was driven out by the “dinosaurs” of the Québécois Party. He refers then to Yves Michaud, Denis Lazure and Bernard Landry.

After the resignation of Andre Boisclair, the race with the direction of the Québécois Party starts, but only Pauline Marois takes part in it officially, since Gilles Duceppe, however seen like his possible successor, withdraws himself, after one day. June 26th, 2007, Marois succeeds Boisclair.

October 15th, 2007 in Quebec, André Boisclair announces that it leaves the political life. In fact, it confirms that it will leave, on November 15th, 2007 in Quebec, its seat of deputy of Point-with-Tremble. For its party, this date is symbolic system, because it will underline the 31e birthday of the election of the first government pequist.

Political ideology

André Boisclair can be regarded as a politician Social - Démocrate, recommending a balance between the left and the right , is a style of government which brings the advantages of the Socialisme and the Démocratie, which intervenes humanly in the essential fields, while bringing basic conditions to all (and without compromising the freedom of the citizens). Being opposed to the theses free SPQ, Boisclair sees in the social-democracy of Tony Blair a model to be followed. Moreover, he stated to want to relieve the capital and to make of Quebec the place in the world where the capital the is best accommodated possible one .

André Boisclair refused to draw aside any recourse to the two-speed medicine . Also, the nomination of Daniel Audet (of the economic Institute of Montreal) as advising is a sign of its will of centring.

As for the statute of Quebec and Inhabitants of Quebec, André Boisclair is a partisan of the civic nationalism . It thus wishes that the independence combat is cut of any historical reference, ethnic or linguistic, as testify its moderation in the file to it to the reasonable compromises (in particular in what milked with the right to make sport while carrying the Hijab, and with the presence of the Crucifix to the National Assembly).

André Boisclair is also opposed to the theses of the souverainists " pure and durs" and with the principle of an election on sovereignty, principle according to which the seizure of power by the Québécois Party would be used only as transition towards the statute from country by the means of a series of " gestures of souveraineté" breaking Canadian constitutional legality. Rather, the electoral program of Andre Boisclair was limited to a simple provincial management, in addition to the promise of a referendum as soon as possible. The most identity freedom fighters transfer in him the representative of a dangerous rising elite.

André Boisclair opposes any modification with the Charte of the French language.

Private life

André Boisclair openly posts like homosexual since the years 2000. However, it is identified little at the merry community. Also, he says not to militate actively for this cause, which several recognize.

In 2005, during the race with the cheffery of the Québécois Party, a controversy comes to obscure its countryside. Indeed, the Affaire Boisclair bursts towards the end of September, after he had acknowledged to have consumed Cocaïne with some recoveries whereas he was Ministre. A few days after this declaration, André Boisclair announces in spite of very that he will not desist from the race, and presses the media and the population to turn the page on this business. He on the other hand never answered on the way in which he had gotten the illicit substance.

Quotations

We will be pleased soon to re-examine the Inhabitants of Quebec, to keep our dreams in life well, I think that we are million with still having these dreams and soon, we will be re-examined (following the defeat with the Québécois general elections of March 26th, 2007).

The federalists acknowledge themselves unable to reform the Constitution. Between quiet resignation and freedom, this honest nation will choose freedom (marked at the time of the point of press where he announces his resignation as chief of the Parti Québécois, on May 8th, 2007).

To support the teaching of the various religions according to the religious convictions, that would lead us to a total jumble. That does not go in the interest of the Inhabitants of Quebec, in any respect of Mgr Ouellet .

The Québécois Party will never tax the grey matter! (Marked during the electoral campaign preceding the Québécois election of March 26th, 2007).

an head of party who is not believed any more is cooked.

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