Government Lucien Bouchard

| align=" center" width=" 10%" colspan=" 3" | Government Parizeau | align=" center" width=" 78%" colspan=" 20" | Government Bouchard | align=" center" width=" 12%" colspan=" 3" | Government Landry |- | align=" center" colspan=" 13" | 35^e legislature | align=" center" colspan=" 13" | 36^e legislature |- | width=" 22%" align=" center" colspan=" 2" | 1995 | width=" 15%" align=" center" colspan=" 4" | 1996 | width=" 14%" align=" center" colspan=" 4" | 1997 | width=" 15%" align=" center" colspan=" 4" | 1998 | width=" 14%" align=" center" colspan=" 4" | 1999 | width=" 15%" align=" center" colspan=" 4" | 2000 | width=" 15%" align=" center" colspan=" 4" | 2001 |} The mandate of the government of Lucien Bouchard , become Prime Minister for Quebec following the resignation of its predecessor Jacques Parizeau, extended from the January 29th 1996 with the March 8th 2001.

Characteristics

As of the arrival of Lucien Bouchard to the head of the government pequist, the principal priority becomes the degreasing of the public office in order to arrive at deficit zero before the end of the century. The budgetary cuts hurt, especially in the field of health. The negotiations with the trade unions of the public sector are hard, although they do not reach the ferocity of the time of Rene Lévesque or that of the first mandate of Robert Bourassa. The strongest frictions take place at the time of the strike of the nurses at the summer 1999.

The budgetary cuts do not prevent the Bouchard government from legislating on social matters. In 1996, it makes adopt the law on the insurance-drugs. In 1997, negotiations tightened with Ottawa arrive in the long term with an amendment at the Constitution allowing the creation of linguistic school commissions. The most disputed law and most criticized remains however that on forced fusions of the municipalities. At the end of 2000, the approval rating of the government is besides strongly with the fall, following its adoption.

Sovereignty becomes, with the government Bouchard, a more remote objective because he promises to hold a referendum only when he holds gaining conditions between the hands. That does not prevent the explosive tensions in its relationship with Ottawa. They become straightforwardly bad when the federal minister Stephan Dion makes adopt his law called on clearness chief clerk . The Bouchard government wants to then make unanimously adopt its bill 99 stating the right of the Québécois people to have its future freely, but the Liberal party, being wary, does not follow it in its strategy. The law is adopted with a divided vote, which gives him less force.

In January 1996 composition

Lucien Bouchard: Prime Minister.
Bernard Landry: Minister for Finance.
Jacques Léonard: president of the Council of the Treasury, minister of state to the Administration and the Public office.
Paul Bégin: Minister for Justice.
Jacques Arm-band: Minister for the intergovernmental Businesses, Minister for Transport.
Sylvain Simard: Minister for the International relations, minister responsible for the Francophonie.
Pauline Marois: Minister for Education.
Louise Beaudoin: Minister for the Culture and Transport, minister responsible for the Charter of the French language.
Jean Rochon: Minister for Health and the Social services.
Rémy Trudel : Minister for the municipal Businesses.
Serge Ménard: minister of state with the Metropolis.
Guy Julien: minister of 'Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
David Cliche: minister of environment and for Fauna.
Matthias Rioux : Minister for Labor.
Louise Harel: minister of state with Employment and Solidarity, minister responsible for the Female condition.
Guy Chevrette: minister of state for the Natural resources, minister responsible for the Development of the areas.
Denise Carrier-Perreault: minister delegated to the Grounds, Mines and Forests.
Robert Perreault: Minister for Public safety.
Andre Boisclair: deputy secretary with the Relations with the citizens.
Rita Dionne-Marsolais : trade and Minister of Industry, Minister for Science and Technology.
Roger Bertrand: Minister for the Income.

Rehandling in August 1997:

Jean-Pierre Jolivet: deputy secretary with the electoral and parliamentary Reform.
Serge Ménard: Minister for Justice.
Robert Perreault: minister of state with the Metropolis.
Paul Bégin: minister of environment and for Fauna.
David Cliche: Minister for Tourism.
Pierre Bélanger: Minister for Public safety.
Roger Bertrand: deputy secretary with Industry and the Trade.
Rita Dionne-Marsolais : deputy secretary with the Income.

Rehandling in September 1998:

Joseph Facal: Minister for the intergovernmental Businesses.
Roger Bertrand: minister responsible for the Administration.
Jacques Arm-band: Minister for Transport, minister responsible for the parliamentary Reform.
Jean-Pierre Jolivet: deputy secretary with Regional development.
Matthias Rioux : Minister for Labor, minister responsible for the Elder ones.
François Legault: trade and Minister of Industry, Minister for Sciences and Technology.
Nicole Leger: minister delegated to the Family and Childhood.

In December 1998 composition

Lucien Bouchard: Prime Minister.
Bernard Landry: Minister for Finance, Trade and Minister of Industry.
Jacques Léonard: president of the Council of the Treasury, minister of state to the Administration and the Public office.
Linda Goupil : Minister for Justice, deputy secretary to the Female condition.
Joseph Facal: Minister for the intergovernmental Businesses.
Louise Beaudoin: Minister for the international Businesses.
François Legault: Minister for Education.
Agnes Maltais: Minister for the Culture and Transport.
Pauline Marois: Minister for Health and the Social services.
Jacques Arm-band: Minister for the Natural resources, minister responsible for the parliamentary Reform.
Jean Rochon: Minister for Research, Science and Technology.
Guy Julien: deputy secretary with Industry and the Trade.
Andre Boisclair: Minister for the Social security.
Gilles Barrel: deputy secretary with Health, the Social services and the Protection of youth.
Nicole Leger: minister delegated to the Family and Childhood.
Diane Lemieux: Minister for Labor, Minister for Employment.
Louise Harel: Minister for the municipal Businesses, minister of state with the Metropolis.
Guy Chevrette: Minister for Transport, deputy secretary to the Businesses autochtones, deputy secretary with the electoral Reform.
Rémy Trudel : Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Paul Bégin: minister of environment.
Jean-Pierre Jolivet: deputy secretary with Regional development.
Jacques Barrel: deputy secretary with Transport.
Maxime Arseneau: Minister for Tourism.
Serge Ménard: Minister for Public safety.
Rita Dionne-Marsolais : Minister for the Income.
Robert Perreault: Minister for the Relations with the citizens, Minister for Immigration.
David Cliche: deputy secretary with the Highway of Information and the Governmental services.

Rehandling in May 1999:

Bernard Landry: Minister for Finance, Trade and Minister of Industry, Minister for the Income.

Rehandling in November 1999:

Paul Bégin: minister of environment, Minister for the Income.

Chronology

January 29th, 1996: assermentation of the Bouchard cabinet in front of the lieutenant-governor Martial Asselin.

March 1996: a socio-economic conference joining together the government, the trade unions and employers are intended to arrive at deficit zero in three years. The student mediums and the representatives of the poor are disappointed not to be listened.

April 16th, 1996: deposit of the law creating a new mode of insurance-drugs and which must come into effect on January 1st, 1997.

July 1996: Flood of Saguenay.

August 9th, 1996: Jean-Louis Roux is named lieutenant-governor of Quebec.

November 1996: the second socio-economic conference of the year stresses the fight against poverty. Bouchard refuses the concept of impoverishment zero but announces the creation of solidarity funds of $250 million for the assisted social ones.

November 5th, 1996: Jean-Louis Roux resigns following a controversy. He would have carried a badge Nazi at the time of a racist demonstration in the Années 1940.

December 12th, 1996: the government proposes an allowance of the surplus of the old-age pensions to abolish 1500 stations in the public office before July 1st. The majority of the trade unions end up accepting it.

January 16th, 1997: the Nicolet report/ratio on the floods of Saguenay deplores the disuse and the bad management of the stoppings.

January 21st, 1997: Quebec requests an constitutional amendment in order to create linguistic school commissions.

September 15th, 1997: the 9 Prime Ministers for the anglophone provinces meet in Calgary where they recognize the " character unique" of Quebec and the equality of all the provinces. It is the declaration of Calgary .

November 21st, 1997: the law on wage equity between into force.

December 19th, 1997: the Constitution is amended, making it possible to create linguistic school commissions.

January 1998: Large Glaze in the area of Montreal. Its cost for the government approaches the $2 billion.

April 30th, 1998: Jean Charest succeeds Daniel Johnson (wire) with the head of the Liberal party of Quebec.

August 20th, 1998: the Supreme court rules that Quebec cannot declare its independence unilaterally. On the other hand, it specifies that the project is legitimate and that there must be negotiations, additional clause the victory of Yes with a referendum.

November 30th, 1998: the Parti Québécois Lucien Bouchard gains the general election with 75 deputies against 48 with the Liberal party and 1 with the democratic Action of Quebec. On the other hand, PQ obtains only 42,9% of the voices compared with 43,6% for the PLQ.

March 9th, 1999: the Landry budget has announced a financial surplus for the first time for 40 years.

Be 1999: general strike and illegal of the 47,000 nurses of Quebec, dissatisfied of the governmental offers. Not yielding Quebec, they must finally turn over to work.

December 10th, 1999: in Ottawa, the minister Stephan Dion files in a bill having to frame a possible referendum on sovereignty. The question will have to relate only on the secession of Quebec and not to an economic association. Moreover, Ottawa will not negotiate, additional clause one 50%+1. This law will be known under the name of law on clearness chief clerk .

December 18th, 1999: the government gets along with the trade unions of the public office for an increase of 4% in 4 years.

March 3rd, 2000: Louise Harel makes public her reform project municipal, imposing municipal fusions in the Urban communities of Quebec, Montreal, Longueuil and Hull.

May 11th, 2000: deposit of the law on forced municipal fusions.

December 7th, 2000: the National Assembly adopts the law 99, which points out the basic right of the Québécois people have his future, the democratic rule of the 50%+1 and the indivisibility of the Québécois territory. It aims at countering the law on clearness chief clerk . The liberal deputies vote against, which makes its impact less strong.

December 14th, 2000: the National Assembly adopts a motion of blame against Yves Michaud, this one having declared that the Jewish people had not been the only people on to have suffered Earth. Bouchard was outraged of these remarks which it identifies like racism.

January 14th, 2001: Lucien Bouchard announces his next resignation. The controversy surrounding the remarks of Yves Michaud made lean the decision, but he calls upon other reasons like that to find a family life.

March 2nd, 2001: Bernard Landry becomes officially the fifth chief of the Québécois Party.

Sources

the Duty , 1996-2001
the Press , 1996-2001

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