Government Louis-Alexandre Taschereau

The mandate of the government of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau , become Prime Minister for Quebec following the resignation of its predecessor Lomer Gouin, extended from the July 9th 1920 with the June 11th 1936.

Composition in 1920

  • Walter Mitchell: provincial treasurer, Minister for the municipal Businesses.

Rehandling in 1921:

  • Jacob Nicol: provincial treasurer, Minister for the municipal Businesses.

  • Joseph-Léonide Perron: Minister for Voierie.

Rehandling in 1929:

  • Joseph-Léonide Perron: Minister for Agriculture.

  • Hector Laferté : Minister for Colonization, the Mines and the Fisheries.

  • Joseph-Edouard Perrault; Minister for Voierie.

Composition in 1930

  • Louis-Alexandre Taschereau: Prime Minister, public prosecutor.

  • Athanase David: provincial secretary.

  • Joseph-Léonide Perron: Minister for Agriculture.

  • Hector Laferté: Minister for Colonization, the Mines and the Fisheries.

  • Honore Draper II: Minister for the Grounds and Forests.

  • Joseph-Edouard Perrault: Minister for Voierie.

Rehandling in October 1930:

Rehandling in December 1930:

  • Louis-Alexandre Taschereau: Prime Minister, provincial treasurer, public prosecutor, Minister for the municipal Businesses.

Rehandling in 1931:

  • Charles-Joseph Arcand: Minister for Labor.

Composition in 1932

  • Louis-Alexandre Taschereau: Prime Minister, public prosecutor.

  • Athanase David; provincial secretary.

  • Adélard Godbout: Minister for Agriculture.

  • Hector Laferté: Minister for Colonization, the Mines and the Fisheries.

  • Joseph-Napoleon Francoeur: public Minister for Labor.

  • Honore Draper II: Minister for the grounds and Forests.

  • Joseph-Edouard Perrault: Minister for Voierie.

  • Charles-Joseph Arcand: Minister for Labor.

Rehandling in 1934:

  • Irenee Vautrin: Minister for Colonization, the Mines and the Fisheries.

Composition in 1936

  • Louis-Alexandre Taschereau: Prime Minister.

  • Ralph Stockell: provincial treasurer.

  • Athanase David: provincial secretary.

  • Joseph-Edouard Perrault: public prosecutor.

  • Adélard Godbout: Minister for Agriculture.

  • Hector Authier: Minister for Colonization.

  • Joseph-Napoleon Francoeur: public Mine and Minister for Labor.

  • Edgar Rochette: fisheries and Hunting, Minister for Labor.

  • Honore Draper II: Minister for the Grounds and Forests.

  • Pierre-Emile Side: Minister for Voierie.

  • Télesphore-Damien Bouchard: Minister for the municipal Businesses, Trade and Minister of Industry.

Chronology

  • January 11th - March 19th 1921: second session of the 15th Legislature. Creation of a Control of Alcohols of which the goal is to control the sale of alcoholic beverages.

  • December 6th 1921: the Liberal party of Mackenzie King is victorious with the federal elections.

  • January 10th - March 22nd 1922: third session of the 15th Legislature. Taschereau announces profits of $4 million to the Control of alcohols. For the first time, a bill deprived on the right to vote of the women is discussed with the legislative Assemblée but is finally withdrawn without there being vote.

  • February 5th 1923: Taschereau gains the general election with 64 candidates elected against 19 conservatives and 2 independent candidates. The conservatives make better figure than in 1919 where they had made elect only 5 deputies.

  • December 17th 1923 - March 15th 1924: first session of the 16th Legislature. A law is voted making the adoption legal. A first tax on the gasoline, of 2 hundreds the gallon, is created.

  • November 1924: foundation of the Quebec Power which obtains the monopoly of electricity in the area of Quebec.

  • 1925 : a first law on the industrial accidents is deposited but will be withdrawn later because she is considered to be unsatisfactory.

  • 1926 : a new law on the industrial accidents is deposited then withdrawn again. The government announces the creation of a park on the island of Anticosti.

  • June 1926: the roads of Quebec are now numbered. Thus the Chemin of Roy connecting Quebec to Montreal on northern bank of the St. Lawrence takes the name of " road 2 ".

  • Fall 1926: Taschereau goes to Great Britain to plead there the cause of the Labrador to the private Council of London.

  • January 9th 1927: the fire of the Bay-tree De luxe hotel , a cinema of Montreal, makes 77 dead, all the children.

  • March 1st 1927: the private Council of London grants all the territory of Labrador to Newfoundland.

  • May 16th 1927: the liberals gain 74 seats against 10 with the conservatives at the time of the general election. Maurice Duplessis becomes appointed district of Three-Rivers.

  • 3 - November 10th 1927: federal-provincial conference in Ottawa. Ottawa wants to make accept amendments with the Constitution with the provinces but those affix a refusal to him.

  • 1928 : the law on the industrial accidents is finally adopted. Inauguration of the road girdling the Gaspésie.

  • March 22nd 1928: a law prohibited with the children of less than 16 years the access in the cinemas.

  • February 1930: the law on the vote of the women is beaten by 44 to 24. The Parliament also refuses with the women the right to be lawyers.

  • May 24th 1930: inauguration of the Bridge Jacques-Cartier in Montreal.

  • July 28th 1930: the conservative Richard Bennett gains the federal elections.

  • August 21st 1930: first federal-provincial conference on unemployment. A project of public works is started.

  • March 25th 1931: a new law on the vote of the women is beaten by 47 to 21.

  • April 17th 1931: Quebec approves the principles of the Statut of Westminster.

  • August 24th 1931: the liberals of Taschereau gain the general election with 79 seats against 11 for the liberals. Camillien Houde is beaten in the two counties where it was presented.

  • December 1931: presentation in Room of a series of new taxes aiming at balancing a budget put at evil by the economic crisis.

  • February 10th 1932: presentation of a law on the return to the ground, which makes it possible to give grounds to the unemployed in Gaspésie, in Abitibi and with the Témiscamingue. Unemployment then reaches almost 33% of the population.

  • August 30th 1932: the government announces a first deficit in 30 years in its budget.

  • January 1933: Taschereau benefits from a conference interprovinciale to require a federal subsidy in order to reinforce the fight against unemployment.

  • Spring 1933: a group of Inhabitant of Quebec including/understanding inter alia Philippe Hamel starts to require the nationalization of electricity but Taschereau decides against the project.

  • October 4th 1933: Maurice Duplessis succeeds Camillien Houde with the head of the Conservative party.

  • January 22nd 1935: the Lapointe Commission on electricity recommends the rigorous control of private initiative and decides against nationalization in block. On the other hand, he recognizes the principle of a moderate municipalization of electricity.

  • June 6th 1935: T.D. Bouchard is the first journalist with becoming member of a government in Quebec.

  • July 4th 1935: inauguration of the Bridge of the island of Orleans.

  • September 11th 1935: Mackenzie King becomes again Prime Minister following the federal elections.

  • November 7th 1935: Gouin and Duplessis announce an political alliance between the ALN and the PC in order to better fight against the Taschereau mode. It is the formation of the National union.

  • November 25th 1935: Taschereau gains with difficulty the general election with 48 liberals against 16 conservatives and 26 candidates of the ALN.

  • May 3rd 1936: beginning of the audiences of the Committee of the public accounts charged to audit the accounts of the State. During the next month, Duplessis updates a series of scandals which paralyze the government. The former minister Irenee Vautrin subtilized funds with his ministry for personal expenditure. The senior official Charles Lanctôt received government $140,000 of travelling expenses since 1928. Antoine Taschereau, brother of the Prime Minister, deposited $75,000 of the provincial treasure at the National Canadian Bank of Saint-Pacôme to encourage his son who is manager there. He kept $10,000 of interest on the public funds.

Characteristics

The very long reign of the government Taschereau (16 years, an unequalled record) can be divided into two parts. In the first, of 1920 to 1929, it continues approximately the industrialization policy of Lomer Gouin and Simon-Napoleon Parent. It makes build roads connecting the great urban centres to the areas moved away, such Abitibi and Gaspésie. Moreover, it introduces social measures, such creation of the Control of Alcohols, the laws on the industrial accidents and the law legalizing the adoption. A bone economic conjuncture makes him gain the general elections of 1923 and 1927 but they are less bright however than those of Gouin.

The second period, of 1929 to 1936, is that of a long decline followed by the rout. Believer with a momentary crisis, the Taschereau government does not react immediately to the economic crisis which follows the crash of Wall Street. In 1931, he announces a series of public works but unemployment rate is too high so that he is countered. It turns then to the direct helps, i.e. the payment of services to the unemployed. He recommends also the return to the ground, i.e. the gift of grounds to the unemployed in the distant areas.

Exceeded by the events, the Taschereau government lends the side to an increasingly wild criticism. Liberals, dissatisfied of the governmental measures, leave the Party and found the national liberal Action under the direction of Paul Gouin, the son of the former Prime Minister. They show the financial trusts to be the cause of the Crisis and Taschereau to be their puppet. An alliance with the conservatives of Maurice Duplessis results in a quasi-defeat with the elections of 1935. A few months later, the Committee of the public accounts shows that the government is gangrené by corruption. Taschereau does not have any more the choice but to resign.

Sources

  • Jacques Lacoursière. popular History of Quebec , volume IV. North. 1997.

  • Paul-Andre Linteau, Rene Durocher and Jean-Claude Robert. History of contemporary Quebec , volume I. Boreal Express train. 1979.

  • Bernard Vigod. Taschereau . North. 1996.

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