Réal Caouette

Joseph-David-Réal Caouette (born on September 26th 1917 with Amos, deceased on December 16th, 1976 with Ottawa) was a Garagiste and Canadian politician . He evolves/moves all his life on the federal political scene and was the chief of the movement creditist Québécois during nearly 20 years.

Biography

Réal Caouette covertit with the theory of the social Credit in 1939. Initially elected Appointed with the House of Commons of Canada under the banner of the Union of the voters at the time of a by-election in 1946, in the district of Pontiac, it sits with the Party once elected social Credit. At the time of the election of 1949, it east demolishes; he is candidate for election of 1953, election of 1957 and election of 1958, but without success each time. In 1958, it breaks with the founders of the Union of the voters, Louis Even and Gilberte Side-Draper, and joint with the Parti social Credit, becoming the uncontested chief of the creditists in Quebec.

Caouette combines the theories creditists with the social Conservatisme and a fort Québécois Nationalisme. Populist chief and charismatic speaker, Caouette exerts a great attraction on those which feel excluded by the financial institutions, the traditional politicians and the élitistes intellectuals.

In 1961, he is candidate with the cheffery of the Party social Credit, but he is beaten by Robert NR. Thompson, a deputy creditist of the Alberta. Some believe that Caouette really gained but that the wing albertaine of the party would have posed its veto. The Prime Minister albertain Ernest Manning had previously declared that its province would never accept a catholic French-speaking as chief of the party.

At the time of the federal election of 1962, the social Credit gains 26 seats in Quebec. Caouette is elected with the communes as a deputy of Villeneuve, a district which it preserves for the remainder of his life (it is re-elected in Témiscamingue in 1966). The party does not gain that four seats in the remainder of Canada, kind Thompson to name Caouette under assistant chief. The party holds the balance of power to the communes and contributes to the fall of the Minority government progressist-conservative of John Diefenbaker. However, in the federal election of 1963, the creditists are reduced to 24 seats.

Caouette fights for the bilingualism with the House of Commons, gaining a victory symbolic system when it obtains cafeteria of the Parlement which it prints its menus in the two languages; it also succeeds in translating into French the payment of the House of Commons. In this direction, it anticipates the policy of official bilingualism introduced later by Pierre Trudeau.

Caouette estimates that, like the party is strongest in Quebec, it is in right to be a chief of the party in the place of Thompson. Moreover, Caouette and its disciples always adhere to the monetary theory social Crédit of C.H. Douglas, while Thompson and the Parti social Credit Alberta had given up the theory. Thompson refuses to yield its place; Caouette snap the door of the party, carrying with him all the Québécois wing of the party to found the Rallying of the creditists in 1963.

In the election of 1965, the Rallying of the creditists gains nine seats, while the social Credit directed by Thompson gains only five of them. In the election of 1968, the party of Caouette gains 14 seats; that of Thompson does not gain any of it.

At the time of the election of 1972, the two parties are resoldered in only one, under the direction of Caouette; the party gains 15 seats. The party continues to introduce candidates in the other provinces, but succeeds in never again making elect of deputy outside Quebec. In the election of 1974, the party gains 11 seats.

Réal Caouette dies in 1976. After its death, the movement creditist in Quebec and the federal level starts a decline from which it will never go back. The party gains only six seats under the direction of Fabien Roy at the time of the election of 1979, and none in the election of 1980 or in the subsequent elections. The party closes shop in the Années 1990.

Throughout its career politqiue, Caouette was recognized for its comments discussed and unrestrained. Shortly after the Second world war, Caouette affirms that its economic theories are the same ones as those of the government Italy N discredited of Benito Mussolini. During the Crisis of October of 1970, it declares that the leaders of the Front of release of Quebec should be carried out with the group. These declarations had a resonance among partisans more radical creditists, but they were undoubtedly used to reduce the popularity of the party near the mass of the voters.

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External bonds

Réal Caouette, with the defense of ordinary people — Files of Radio-Canada
Joseph-David-Réal Caouette — the Canadian Encyclopedia
Réal Caouette, a popular politician with the picturesque speeches (1917-1976) — Encyclobec
Réal Caouette : a political powerful orator — Our Roots/Our Roots
federal political Experiment — Library of the Parliament

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