Jean Charest

Career of lawyer and federal policy

Born in the central city from the cantons of the East (Sherbrooke, Quebec), Jean Charest is the son of Claude Red Charest and Rita Léonard (an Québécois-Irish ). He obtained his diploma in right of the Université of Sherbrooke and was allowed with the Barreau of Quebec in 1981. Having married Michele Dionne, he is the father of three children. He exerts his lawyer trade until he is elected appointed progressist-conservative with the House of Commons of Canada in the district of Sherbrooke to the Canadian federal election of 1984. Of 1984 with 1986, Charest occupies the post of vice-president of the House of Commons. In 1986, at the 28 years age, it is appointed minister of state with Youth within the cabinet of the Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. He is the youngest member of the Council of Ministers in the history of Canada. He is named minister of state in the physical Condition and the Sport amateur in 1988, but he must resign in 1990 after being himself addressed to a judge in an inappropriate way. He will be reinstated later in the cabinet, then appointed minister of environment in 1991. With Lucien Bouchard, it had taken part in the preliminary negotiations which led to the agreement of Kyoto.

It is one of the participants in the construction of the Accord of the lake Meech as of 1988.

After the resignation of Brian Mulroney of the posts of head of the Party progressist-conservative and Prime Minister of Canada, Charest is candidate with the direction of the party in 1993. It impresses good number of observers and arrives good second behind the Minister for Defense, Kim Campbell, which enjoys a great advance. Charest is named Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, of sciences and technologies in the transitory cabinet of Campbell.

At the time of the election of 1993, the progressist-conservatives are swept capacity in one of the elections déproportionnées in the history of the world. Only two of the 295 candidates of the party are elected: Charest and Elsie Wayne. As a single member remaining of what was to be the last cabinet progressist-conservative, Charest is named temporary chief of the party, and is confirmed at the station in April 1995.

Before even being confirmed in its functions of chief of the party, Charest launches an effort to rebuild the party. At the time of the election of 1997, the conservatives collect 19% of the votes, gaining 20 of the 301 seats, mainly in the Seaboard provinces. The party returns by far, but Charest is disappointed by the results. He moreover had proposed to reduce the taxes, to make an alternative to Jean Chrétien, to revise the law on the firearms and to create a charter of the rights of the victims. He had bound with those which denounced the possibility of a partition of the province in the event of separation.

Countryside chief clerk of 1995

Chief of the Liberal party of Quebec

In April 1998, Charest yields with the very great public and political pressure and leaves the federal policy to take the direction of the Liberal party of Quebec. Charest is indeed regarded as the best hope of the federalistic inhabitants of Quebec to overcome the government souverainist Parti Québécois. (The Liberal party of Quebec is not affiliated with the federal liberal although it already was it at one time.)

A few months later, Jean Charest is elected appointed district of Sherbrooke to the general elections of November 30th, 1998. The liberals, under Charest, succeed in collecting a greater number of votes than the Québécois Party at the time of the election. However, since the electoral system is not proportional to the number of votes, the Québécois Party gains sufficient seats to form another majority Gouvernement. Compared to the general election of 1994 (whereas the liberals were directed by Daniel Johson, wire) liberal and pequists collected almost the same number of seats to the National Assembly of Quebec. Of December 15th, 1998 in Quebec at April 29th, 2003 in Quebec, Jean Charest is Chef of the Official opposition of Quebec.

Little before the electoral campaign of 1998, Jean Charest had written his autobiography. Also, the leader-writer-in-chief of the Press , Andre Pratte, had written similar to the same time.

To the election of April 14th, 2003, Charest leads its liberal troops to a majority victory, putting an end to nine years of reign pequist. He affirms to hold from now on a mandate to reform the health care, to lower the taxes, to reduce the expenditure and to make reductions in the role of the State. Jean Charest is sworn in Prime Minister for Quebec on April 29th, 2003 in Quebec.

Prime Minister for Quebec

First mandate

Its first two years as a Prime Minister are remembered by a wild opposition towards its policies on behalf of various social Groupes and of the Syndicat S. antagonism and negativity between the government and the employees of the public sector, as well as the absence of the falls of taxes promised which are always made wait, contribute to make its government extremely unpopular near the public. Some suggested that Charest could be candidate with the direction of the Conservative party of Canada additional clause a possible defeat at the polls of Stephen Harper. Some souverainists also tried to attack Charest by making the point that its legal first name is " John" and not " Jean".

Several important crises marked the first mandate of the government Charest. The crisis of the C. difficult, the housing shortage, the crisis of the university financing, the Collapse of the viaduct of the Harmony, the Shooting with the college Dawson, the reasonable compromises, the crisis of the environment and the problem of municipal democracy count among the difficult events which marked these first years.

Second mandate

Jean Charest is re-elected Prime Minister at the time of the Québécois election of 2007. However, its government becomes minority. Its party makes elect 48 deputies, obtaining 33% of the votes. The two other principal parties, the democratic Action of Quebec (directed by Mario Dumont) and the Québécois Party (directed by Andre Boisclair), respectively make elect 41 deputies (31% of the votes) and 36 deputies (28% of the votes). In its district, Sherbrooke, Jean Charest obtains 36,56% of the votes, preceding the candidate of the Québécois Party, Claude Forgues.

April 18th, 2007 in Quebec, Jean Charest announces a ministerial cabinet tiny room to 18 deputy (E) S. This cabinet, equal between men and women, represents a first in the province. That was very well accommodated on behalf of the media and of the population.

On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, Jean Charest is decorated about the Bavarian Merit. It is the highest distinction given by the Bavarian State. It is the 2nd inhabitant of Quebec to receive the distinction (after Bernard Landry) and one from rare abroad.

See too

External bonds

Jean Charest - National Assembly
Portrait of the Charest government - the Duty
Portrait of Jean Charest
Official site of the Liberal party of Quebec
federal political Experiment — Library of the Parliament

Random links: