Government Antonio Barrette

The mandate of the government of Antonio Barrette , become Prime Minister for Quebec following the death of its predecessor Paul Saved, extended from the January 8th to the July 5th 1960.

Composition

Antonio Barrette: Prime Minister, Minister for Labor.
John Bourque: Minister for Finance.
Yves Prévost: provincial secretary.
Antoine Rivard: public prosecutor, Minister for Transport and Transport.
Barred Laurent: Minister for Agriculture.
Joseph-Damask Bégin: Minister for Colonization.
Camille Pouliot: Minister for Hunting and the Fisheries.
William Cottingham: Minister for the Mines.
Jean-Jacques Bertrand: Minister for Youth and the social Wellbeing.
Daniel Johnson: Minister for the Hydraulic resources.
Antonio Talbot: Minister for Voierie.
Lorraine Romeo: public Minister for Labor.
Paul Dozois: Minister for the municipal Businesses.
Paul Beaulieu: trade and Minister of Industry.
Jacques Miquelon: Minister for the Grounds and Forests.
Arthur Leclerc: Minister for Health.

Chronology

January 8th 1960: assermentation of the cabinet Bar in front of the lieutenant-governor Onésime Gagnon.

January 13rd 1960: Fernand Lizotte, deputy unionistic of Islet, disputes the leadership of his chief, pleading that the deputies were not consulted as for its choice.

February 9th 1960: deposit of the bill on the State education, giving the capacity of imposition to the school commissions.

Mars 1960: the Superior council of work is positioned back. Its principal goal is to provide a Labor regulation to Quebec.

April 27th 1960: Antonio Barrette starts general elections for on June 22nd.

June 22nd 1960: the Liberal party of Jean Lesage gains the elections, putting an end to 15 years of reign of the National union. 50 liberal candidates are elected against 44 unionistic. The ministers Antoine Rivard, John Bourque and Jacques Miquelon lose their seat.

Characteristics

Whereas Paul Sauvé had succeeded Maurice Duplessis without problem, Antonio Barrette is disputed by part of sound caucus at the beginning of his government. He manages in spite of that to set up the majority of the reforms announced by Sauvé. He establishes a board of inquiry on the insurance-hospitalization, makes adopt a bill creating the Highway code and makes reappear the Superior council of Work.

The electoral campaign of spring engages however badly. The National union does not have a program like such and the organizers of the countryside, Joseph-Damask Bégin and Gerald Martineau, drop their chief. Bar loses its elections, but the results are so tight (51% of the population voted for the liberals against 47% for the unionistic ones) that one cannot speak about decisive victory for Jean Lesage, the new Prime Minister.

Sources

Paul-Andre Linteau, Rene Durocher, Jean-Claude Robert and François Ricard. History of contemporary Quebec , volume II. Boreal Express train. 1986.
Louis La Rochelle, In red-handed of being able . Boreal Express train. 1982.

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