Canadian federal election of 1979

The Canadian federal election of 1979 (that is to say the 31e general election since the Canadian Confederation of 1867) is held the May 22nd 1979 in order to elect the deputies of the 31e legislature with the House of Commons of Canada. The Liberal party of Canada east demolishes, after 11 years of being able under the Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Joe Clark leads the Parti progressist-conservative to the capacity with a minority government.

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The liberals of Trudeau had made themselves extremely unpopular during their last mandate to the capacity because of enormous budget deficits, as well as high rates of Inflation and Chômage. Although the standard in Canada is to have elections approximately at every four years, Trudeau prolongs the time until the five years maximum in the hope which the Liberal party finds part of the lost supports.

It is however a waste of time and effort, and the liberals lose 27 seats. Several important ministers are demolished. According to the election, Trudeau announces its resignation as a chief of the Liberal party.

The Party progressist-conservative makes countryside with the slogan “ It is the time of a changement ”. However, the Canadians do not make sufficiently confidence with the young person Joe Clark to grant a majority to him to the House of Commons. In particular, the Quebec refuses its support to him, and elects only two deputies progressist-conservatives in the 75 districts of the province. Clark, relatively unknown at the time of its election to the direction of the Party progressist-conservative in 1976, is perceived like clumsy and undecided. He also knows problems with certain members on the right of sound caucus. In particular, when the district of Clark is amalgamated with the district of another preserving deputy during boundary changes, the deputy refuses to resign, and Clark ends up being presented in another district. When Clark undertakes a round of the the Middle East in order to show its capacity to treat questions of international businesses, its luggage are lost and it appears uncomfortable while discussing the questions.

The liberals try to make inexperience and leadership of Clark the central stake of the election, affirming in their publicities that “ It is not time to learn on the tas ” and “ We need a strong direction to continue the growth of Canada. A leader owes diriger. ”

The Parti the social Credit of Canada, which had lost its chief Réal Caouette by its death in 1976, fights to remain of topicality. After a series of temporary chiefs, including the son of Caouette, the party turns to Fabien Roy, the popular deputy with the National Assembly of Quebec; Roy takes the reins of the party right before the beginning of the countryside. The party enjoys the tacit support of the Parti Québécois, which is with the capacity in Quebec. The social Credit tries to rejoin the independence vote and nationalist: the Canadian flags are absent during the release of the countryside, and the party uses the slogan: It is in our turn (a reference to the song Gens of the country where the sentence is found is in your turn to let to you speak about love ). The party concentrates its platform on the constitutional change, promising to fight for the abolition of the to be able of disavowal (ever used) which makes it possible the federal government to cancel any provincial law, and affirming that each province with “ right to choose its own destiny inside Canada. ”

The support of the Québécois Party to the creditists does not make only the happy ones: for example, Gilles Caouette denounces publicly what are, according to him, of the “ pequists disguised in créditistes. ” Although the party succeeds in increasing its share of the votes in the districts pequists, it also loses many supports in the areas traditionally creditists. The end result is a loss of five seats, 11 to six, and a reduced share of the votes compared with the results of the election of 1974.

The minority government of Clark lasts less than nine months. It east demolishes with the House of Commons by a vote of distrust against a budget which proposed to increase by 18 hundreds of the gallon (approximately 4 hundreds of the liter) the tax on the gasoline. This causes the release of the election of 1980 at the time which the progressist-conservatives are demolished by the liberals of Trudeau.

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