Bloc Québécois

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The Bloc Québécois is a “leftwing orientated, ideologically
driven, and regionally based
political party.” The Bloc aims to
support social democratic
principles and Quebec nationalist
policies. The party is firmly
based in Quebec with little
support outside the region.

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Bloc Québécois is presently the second smallest
party although it remains a registered political
party.
In the 1997 federal election, the party fell to 44
seats and lost official opposition status to the
Reform Party. They reduced further to 38 seats
in the 2000 election and over the past few
elections, the Bloc has continued to decline in
seats.
Last 3 Elections:
2011 - 4 seats
2008 - 49 seats
2006 - 51 seats

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Interesting Fact:
In 2001, Davies became the first Canadian Member of Parliament to self-identify as a lesbian.
The Bloc Québécois wants any spending more than $100 million to be subjected to agreement by the
House of Commons. The party disfavors the idea on the lack of clearness concerning military
spending.
Louis Plamondon is the longest serving MP in Parliament. He was first elected as a Mulroney-era
Progressive Conservative in 1984. Plamondon is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec and
the current interim parliamentary leader of the Bloc Québécois.
He aims to keep the party up to date with only four elected members of Parliament, in the midst of a
new leadership race to replace Gilles Duceppe, along with dozens of other veteran Bloc MPs who
were drowned by a wave of support in Quebec for Jack Layton's New Democrats.
In the last three elections, the Bloc Québécois has won a total of 104 seats. The party currently holds
4 seats in the House of Commons. In the 2011 federal election, the Bloc Québécois lost their official
party status when they only won 4 seats.
The Bloc Quebecois accomplished earning “Official Opposition” winning the second largest amount
of seats in the House of Commons. In 1995, the Bloc Quebecois aimed to become their own nation
and independent party. They attempted to separate but failed to do so due to the rest of the countries'
thoughts and opinions about this. During the 2011 federal election they lost official party status
winning only four seats in the House of Commons.

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Member of Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois party started as a parliamentary movement made up of Quebec MPs
who left the Conservative and the Liberal parties after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord.
This federal political party was founded officially on June 15, 1991 by Lucien Bouchard.
The party has never been the official government. However, it has been the official
opposition once in the 1993 federal election. The Bloc Québécois won 54 seats in the House
of Commons, the second largest amount of seats won in the House of Commons at the time.

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Bloc Québécois
Libby Davies presently serves as the
Member of Parliament for
Vancouver East. Davies has strongly
represented this federal electoral
district since 1997 when she was
first elected to parliament. She is a
member of the New Democratic
Party and has held the role as
Deputy Leader for this political
party since 2007. Davies was also a
House Leader from 2003 to 2011
and is currently the federal NDP
Spokesperson for Health.

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Maria Mourani is the Bloc Québécois Member of
Parliament in the federal riding in Canada. She was
elected in the 2006 Canadian federal election and reelected in 2008 and 2011. Maria was consequently
assigned as the Bloc Québécois Critic on public security
and on the Status of Women in the Canadian Parliament.
In the past, she has worked as a professor, researcher, and
probation officer.
The fundamental goal of the Bloc Québécois is to achieve
an independent Quebec. Most of their policies are tied to
this concept. The Bloc Québécois aims to achieve
sovereignty. They believe the federal government should
allow key issues to be under the control of the provinces.

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The Bloc Québécois favours maintaining the Gun
Registry. They oppose capital punishment and the
toughening of the Young Offenders Act. They plan
to step up gang enforcement efforts, eliminate the
automatic statutory release, and abolish the double
credit practice for time spent in custody awaiting
trial.
The Bloc will implement a ten-year, interest-free
loan program for first-time home buyers, provide
financing to maintain social housing, adopt a
federal pay equity act and increase payments under
the Employment Insurance system to help families.
They also believe that provinces should have more
control over their own economies.

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