Government Robert Bourassa (1)

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The government of Robert Bourassa , become Prime Minister for Quebec following his victory with the general elections of April 29th, 1970, extended of May 12th, 1970 in Quebec at November 26th, 1976 in Quebec. It obtained later a second mandate, of 1985 with 1994.

Composition in 1970

Robert Bourassa: Prime Minister, Minister for Finance.
Jerome Choquette: Minister for Justice, Minister for the Financial institutions.
Guy Saint-Pierre: Minister for Education.
Claude Castonguay: Minister for Health, Minister for the Family and the Wellbeing.
Gerard D. Lévesque: Minister for the intergovernmental Businesses, Trade and Minister of Industry.
Maurice Tessier: Minister for the municipal Businesses, desTravaux minister public.
François Nailsmith: Minister for the cultural Affairs.
Norman Toupin: Minister for Agriculture.
Bernard Pinard; Minister for Voierie.
Georges Tremblay: Minister for Transport.
Massed Gilles: Minister for the Natural wealths.
Kevin Drummond: Minister for the grounds and Forests.
Jean-Paul To combine It: Minister of Transport.
Claire Kirkland-Casgrain: Minister for Tourism, Hunting and Fishing.
Pierre Laporte: labor and Minister for Labor, Minister for Immigration.
William Tetley: Minister for the Income.
Raymond Garneau: Minister for the Public office.

Rehandling in September 1970:

Raymond Garneau: Minister for Finance.
Jerome Choquette: Minister for Justice.
Bernard Pinard: public Minister for Labor, Minister for Voierie.
Maurice Tessier; Minister for the municipal Businesses.
Gerald Harvey: Minister for the Income.
William Tetley: Minister for the Financial institutions.

Rehandling in February 1971:

Robert Bourassa: Prime Minister, Minister for the intergovernmental Businesses.
Roy Baker: Solicitor General.
Claude Castonguay: Minister for the social Affairs.
Jean-Paul To combine It: Minister of Transport, Minister for the Public office.
Jean Cournoyer: labor and Minister for Labor, Minister for Immigration.
Gerard D. Lévesque: trade and Minister of Industry.
Victor Goldbloom: minister of environment.

Rehandling in February 1972:

François Nailsmith: Minister for Education.
Gerard D. Lévesque: Minister for the intergovernmental Businesses.
Claire Kirkland-Casgrain: Minister for the cultural Affairs.
Claude Simard: Minister for Tourism, Hunting and Fishing.
Jean Welcome: Minister for Immigration.
Guy Saint-Pierre: trade and Minister of Industry.
Jean Cournoyer: labor and Minister for Labor.

Rehandling in May 1972:

Jean-Paul To combine It: Minister of Transport.
Jean Cournoyer: labor and Minister for Labor, Minister for the Public office.

Composition in 1973

Robert Bourassa: Prime Minister.
Raymond Garneau: Minister for Finance.
Jerome Choquette: Minister for Justice.
Gerard D. Lévesque: Minister for the intergovernmental Businesses.
François Nailsmith: Minister for Education, Minister for the cultural Affairs.
Claude Castonguay: Minister for the social Affairs.
Victor Goldbloom: Minister for the municipal Businesses, minister of environment.
Norman Toupin: Minister for Agriculture.
Maurice Tessier; public Minister for Labor.
Bernard Pinard: Minister for Voierie.
Georges Tremblay: Minister for Transport.
Jean-Paul To combine It: Minister of Transport.
Gilles Massed: Minister for the Natural wealths.
Kevin Drummond: Minister for the Grounds and Forests.
Claude Simard: Minister for Tourism, Hunting and Fishing.
Jean Cournoyer: labor and Minister for Labor.
Jean Welcome: Minister for Immigration.
Oswald Relative: Minister for the Public office.
Guy Saint-Pierre: trade and Minister of Industry.
William Tetley: Minister for the Financial institutions.
Gerald Harvey: Minister for the Income.

Rehandling in November 1973;

François Nailsmith: Minister for Education.
Denis Hardy: Minister for the cultural Affairs.
Claude Forget: Minister for the social Affairs.
Raymond Mailloux: public Minister for Labor and Provisioning, Minister for Transport.

Rehandling in July 1975:

Gerard D. Lévesque; Minister for Justice.
François Nailsmith: Minister for the intergovernmental Businesses.
Jerome Choquette: Minister for Education.
Jean-Paul To combine It: Minister for the cultural Affairs.
Kevin Drummond: Minister for Agriculture.
William Tetley: public Minister for Labor and Provisioning.
Fernand Lalonde: Solicitor General.
Raymond Mailloux: Minister for Transport.
Denis Hardy: Minister of Transport.
Jean Cournoyer: Minister for the Natural wealths.
Norman Toupin: Minister for the Grounds and Forests.
Gerald Harvey: labor and Minister for Labor.
Dye stick Bacon: Minister for the Consumers, Companies and Co-operatives.
Robert Quenneville: Minister for the Income.

Rehandling in September 1975:

Raymond Garneau: Minister for Finance, Minister for Education.

Rehandling in January 1976:

Jean Welcome: Minister for Education.
Dye stick Bacon: Minister for Immigration, Minister for the Consumers, Companies and Co-operatives.

Chronology

May 12th, 1970 in Quebec: assermentation of the Bourassa cabinet in front of the lieutenant-governor Hugues Lapointe.
June 9th -19 December 1970 in Quebec: first session of the 29e Legislature. One adopts the law there on the health insurance, sponsored by Claude Castonguay, in spite of the opposition of the doctors. One also adopts the law on the Consumer protection.
October 1970: the Crise of October shakes the Bourassa government like all Quebec.
November 7th, 1970 in Quebec: inauguration of the Bridge Pierre-Laporte.
May 1st, 1971 in Quebec: Robert Bourassa announces the development project of the hydro-electric resources of the immense basin of the Baie James. The cost is estimated at $6 or $7 billion.
June 14th, 1971 in Quebec: constitutional conference of Victoria. Pierre Trudeau proposes a formula of modification of the Constitution having to require the support of a majority of the provinces as well as a quasi-joint federal-provincial jurisdiction as regards social security. Bourassa gives its agreement in principle but made volte-face a few days later. According to him, the proposals concerning the legislative powers as regards social security are ambiguous.
July 14th, 1971 in Quebec: law 50 creating the Company of Development of the James Bay is adopted.
Fall 1971: law 66 lowering the age of the majority from 21 to 18 years is adopted.
January 1972: the trade unions of the public office form a Common front in order to negotiate their work conditions collectively.
April 11th, 1972 in Quebec: 210,000 employees of the public office in general strike.
April 16th, 1972 in Quebec: Quebec brings legal proceedings against the trade unions refusing of obtempérer to the order of return to work. The 21, the Common front ceases the strike.
May 5th, 1972 in Quebec: the Indians of the James Bay bring a procedure in order to declare unconstitutional the law creating the S.D.I.
May 8th, 1972 in Quebec: the three chiefs of the central trade-unions, recognized guilty of insult to the court, are condemned to 12 months of imprisonment.
Fall 1972: Jerome Choquette announces the formation of a board of inquiry on the organized crime (CECO).
October 11th, 1972 in Quebec: agreement in principle with the employees of the public sector.
February 1st, 1973 in Quebec: beginning of the audiences of the CECO.
1973 : the fourth session of the 29e Législature sees the creation of the Conseil of the statute of the woman.
October 29th, 1973 in Quebec: the Liberal party gains the general election with 54.7% of the voices and 102 deputies out of 110. With 30.2% of the voices, the Québécois Party collects only 6 districts. The National union is striped chart.
March 22nd, 1974 in Quebec: the leaders of FTQ-Construction incite fire-eaters to ransack the building site of LG-2 to the James Bay. They make for nearly $35 million damage.
April 18th, 1974 in Quebec: Robert Stereotypes, Brian Mulroney and Guy Chevrette president a board of inquiry on violence in the building sites.
May 21st, 1974 in Quebec: deposit of the project of Law 22, making of French the official language of Quebec. The imposition of aptitude tests for the schoolboys allophones who want to be registered at the anglophone school causes an outcry in this minority. However, the nationalists also oppose it because they do not find it restrictive enough.
July 30th, 1974 in Quebec: adoption of the law 22.
November 17th, 1974 in Quebec: with its fifth congress, the Parti Québécois decides to register with its program a referendum like precondition to the objective of sovereignty of Quebec. It is the etapism of Claude Morin.
January 9th, 1975 in Quebec: inauguration of Radio-Quebec.
May 6th, 1975 in Quebec: the report/ratio of the Commission Stereotypes is made public. The intrigues of FTQ-Construction on the building sites are connected with corruption and banditism. He blames the kindness of certain contractors and the carelessness of the government.
June 27th, 1975 in Quebec: the National Assembly adopts the Charter of the rights and freedoms of the person.
September 26th, 1975 in Quebec: disappointed to be transferred to Education, Jerome Choquette resigns.
October 4th, 1975 in Quebec: inauguration of the Airport of Mirabel.
November 11th, 1975 in Quebec: Quebec signs the Convention of the Bay James with the Amerindians of the area. Those yield their ancestral territories for $225 million.
November 14th, 1975 in Quebec: Quebec takes in hand the organization of the Olympic Games of Montreal.
1976 : the second round of negotiations between Quebec and the Common front give place to revolving strikes which last of the months.
March 5th, 1976 in Quebec: the day before a meeting with Bourassa, Trudeau declares with journalists: " It appears that it eats only hot-dogs, that one ". He refuses to help it to sponge the deficit of the Plays and threat to repatriate the Constitution unilaterally if the negotiations do not succeed.
May 25th, 1976 in Quebec: Rodrigue Biron elected chief of the National union.
July 17th -2 August 1976 in Quebec: Olympic Games of Montreal.
October 18th, 1976 in Quebec: Robert Bourassa announces general elections for on November 15th.
November 15th, 1976 in Quebec: with the general surprise, the Québécois Party gains the election with 71 deputies and 41.4% of the voices. The liberals obtain 26 deputies with 33.8% of the vote but Bourassa loses in its district of Draper. The remainder of the seats is distributed between the U.N. (11 deputies), the Rallying creditist of Camil Samson (1 deputy) and the popular national Party of Jerome Choquette (1 deputy).

Characteristics

As of its beginnings, the priority of the Bourassa government is economic development. During the electoral campaign of 1970, the Prime Minister had committed himself creating 100,000 jobs. In 1971, he announces the construction of the hydro-electric complexes of the Baie James. He makes build highways and public edifices and helps with the erection of the Olympic installations for the Plays of 1976.

The social domain is not forgotten. It founds the health insurance, makes adopt the laws on the Consumer protection and the Council of the statute of the woman. It also creates legal aid and the court of the small credits.

Although federalist, his relations with Ottawa are not very cordial. In 1971, he refuses to sign the Charte of Victoria on the renewal of the Constitution, which Canadian the Prime Minister Trudeau does not seem to forgive him. In the following years, Ottawa and Quebec are opposed on the jurisdiction of the câblovision and the crop protection.

The relationships to the trade unions are hardly more cordial. During two rounds of negotiations of 1972 and 1976, the Bourassa government must face a Common front which does not hesitate to start illegal strikes in the public office. The work-related conflicts are also very hard on the building sites of the James Bay and those of the Olympic installations.

During last years, the dissatisfaction with the population is felt more and more opposite the mode. Already, at the time of the Crisis of October, it seemed being with the trailer of the Trudeau government. In 1974, the Loi 22 puts to him with back the allophones, disappointed linguistic tests, as well as the French-speaking nationalists, who find that the law does not go rather far. The trade-union strikes and the social strains seem to show its incapacity to manage the crises. With the autumn 1976, it does not have any more the dimension of the public, tried by a Québécois Party which now promises a referendum before reaching sovereignty.

Sources

Paul-Andre Linteau, Rene Durocher, Jean-Claude Robert and François Ricard. History of contemporary Quebec , volume 2. Boreal Express train. 1986.
Louis La Rochelle. In red-handed of being able . Boreal Express train. 1982.
Gift Murray and Vera Murray. De Bourassa with Lévesque . Fifteen. 1978.

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