The Story. Élections 2007: le Québec au bord de la «crise de nerfs»! The issue, or thicket of issues, that crystallized Dumont's potent outsider status was the so-called "reasonable accommodation" debate, Quebec's term for a global dilemma: how far should local populations adjust their rules and habits to make immigrant newcomers feel comfortable practising their own traditions? "Unofficially, there's a lot. Tell us what you like and don't like about our online election coverage. Perhaps the biggest: how much co-operation will there be between Canada's Conservative government and Quebec's right-of-centre opposition? "The keywords here were anxiety and concern, over globalization, U.S. protectionism, and demographic decline. He's brilliant and he liked people to know it. In 1998, again according to Néron, Dumont declared himself an "abstentionist." To get it back, the party needed a new issue. Depuis quelque temps, les moindres difficultés que nous rencontrons au Québec sont qualifiées de crise par les médias. The same questions arose when turban-wearing Sikhs wanted to join the RCMP 20 years ago, or when Ontario debated, then rejected, incorporating Islamic sharia law more recently. "Quebec's separatist boss quits after election loss" — Reuters, May 8, 2007 Alexandre Deslongchamps. " Finally, Stephen HARPER saw how rapidly the political ground was shifting in Quebec and adjusted accordingly. Elections 2007 au Québec : la FTQ appuie officiellement le Parti québécois Par Guy Charron 12 mars 2007. Dion thought he had a trump card: however diligently Harper might play to the nationalist-leaning editorialists, it was the environmentalist, "progressive" Liberals who appealed to Quebecers' true hearts. As for Boisclair - gay, natty, with a documented history of drug abuse while he was a minister in Bouchard's cabinet - for many Quebecers he might as well have descended from Mars. It was like he had ice water in his veins. Last December, two unlikely giant-killers, Stéphane DION in the federal Liberals and Ed STELMACH in the Alberta Conservatives, stole their parties' leadership from under the noses of better-funded and more prominent front-runners. May 8, 2007: Leader André Boisclair resigns. Dion has, so far, been stymied at every turn in his own province by Harper. Boisclair finally resigned on May 8, 2007. After it's over, you almost always realize you could have seen historic change coming if you had only known where to look. Guessing what will happen next is more challenging than ever. Which explains the long faces on Gilles Duceppe and Stéphane Dion on Tuesday. As Dumont began to rise in the polls, however, Harper took pains to emphasize that the Quebec Liberals were not his only allies. "I lead a party that is a coalition at the provincial level," Harper told the magazine Policy Options in January. He delivered a lunch speech on tax cuts and small government at the Canadian Club in Toronto. Dion spent half a decade arguing there was no "fiscal imbalance" that left Ottawa with more money than it needed and the provinces without enough. But relegated to third-party status, the PQ may no longer be worth bus fare from Ottawa to Quebec City. On February 21, 2007, when Quebec Premier Jean Charest called a provincial election, the approval rate of his Liberal government, as measured by the opinion polls, was under 50 percent. "He didn't perform as well because the television cameras weren't there," says his coach and mentor Gilles Ouellet. "He believed Quebec's political aspirations could be attained within the Canadian framework.". Charest spent four years in office delivering very little of the ambitious "re-engineering" he had promised to get the premier's job. As the dust began to settle, the benefits of hindsight kicked in, as always too late to help win the office pool. In 1986, Dumont's team lost in the provincial finals and the chance to compete in France, triggering a monumental tantrum from Dumont. "You could be nationalist and Liberal at the same time," said Patrick Robitaille, a young Liberal who worked alongside Dumont and is now the ADQ's director general. This was history with the gloves off. In only two months, Dumont and his party, long treated as a bunch of xenophobic bumpkins who needed to be kept away from the good china, had doubled their share of popular support and positioned themselves as the most important new force in Quebec politics. So the omens and portents were many. "Imagine the pressure on the rest.". Suddenly, long-buried clues take on new significance. "There was a Quebec flag everywhere. Opposition to Boisclair, already present before the election campaign, grew within his party. He took on ardent separatist André Néron as his chief of staff. In the poll, 45% of the respondents had chosen Marois and only 21% were for Duceppe. Why the change? He formed the Action démocratique with Jean Allaire, an accountant who had written a report demanding a massive transfer of constitutional jurisdiction from Ottawa to Quebec. The Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ), led by Jean Charest, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Premier Bernard Landry.. Thanks for contributing to The Canadian Encyclopedia. "He wanted to get re-elected. There's a whole province outside the metropolis, and its residents saw things a little differently. Northwest Territories general election, 2007 — Result map of the 2007 general election The 2007 Northwest Territories general election took place on October 1, … March 28, 2007. This was Mario's show. The MSA was founded in November 1967, following a Quebec Liberal Party policy convention where René Lévesque (then minister of Natural Resources in the Liberal provincial government of Jean Lesage) and other party members who were also Québec nationa… Quebecers had their first minority provincial government since the 19th century. In. ", John Parisella, who was Bourassa's chief of staff, also learned the hard way about Dumont's eerie pragmatism. However, as the election date limit approached, Boisclair's popularity waned, a Conservative federal government claiming to be more conciliatory was elected (and made in-roads in Quebec after more than a decade of drought), the Liberal Party of Quebec gained back support by moving back towards the center and the Action démocratique du Québec rapidly gained popularity (as it had in 2002, only to lose it the year after), notably on the reasonable accommodation controversy. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. Dion supported Harper's parliamentary motion on the idea that "the Québécois" form a "nation within a united Canada," but in Quebec, Harper gets all the credit for the initiative. It tagged him as an establishment man - and, in a move that baffled observers, Charest ran this time out as the more-of-the-same man for a province that wasn't at all sure it wanted more of the same. 2007 Quebec general election; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Élections générales québécoises de 2007; Metadata. On Monday night, Mario Dumont and his ACTION DÉMOCRATIQUE DU QUÉBEC party became the blunt instruments of a chastening electoral blow delivered by Quebecers to their entrenched political elites. The collapse of the Meech and Charlottetown constitutional amendments radically polarized Quebec politics. There are a lot of old-stock Quebec Conservatives around here. Today he calls himself an "autonomist." Commonwealth Election Games. The Parti Québécois (PQ) was founded on 13 October 1968 through the merger of the Mouvement souveraineté-association (MSA), led by René Lévesque, and the Ralliement national (RN), led by Gilles Grégoire, a former CréditisteMember of Parliament. Maybe not. 3, SRC, 26-03-07 Dan Beaumont ARCHIVES. A decade ago, pollsters working for Paul MARTIN's federal Finance Department were finding that Quebecers were likelier than any other Canadians to believe they paid too much tax. If it has a face, it is Mario Dumont's. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here. Laforest maintains the Canadian Club speech was partially responsible for Dumont's dismal showing in the 2003 election. In, Aubin, Benoit, and Martin Patriquin, and Paul Wells, "Election 2007 Changes Quebec's Political Landscape". This page was last edited on 1 January 2020, at 11:48. "It certainly affected his performance. Quebec's Separatist Party Leader Boisclair Resigns (Update2) " — Bloomberg L.P. , May 8, 2007 He has no interest in the rest of the country.". WSWS: Nouvelles et analyses: Canada. Would Quebecers' ingrained social-democrat instincts forever protect left-leaning parties against what Lucien Bouchard called "the cold wind" of conservatism from the rest of Canada? "Dumont was much better than the others at reading the public's mind," says Simon Langlois, a sociologist at Université Laval in Quebec City. Moreover, the election was a huge success for the upstart Action démocratique du Québec, under Mario Dumont, who won 41 seats and attained the status of Official Opposition (prior to the election, the Party only had four seats). ... Federal Liberals, though rooting for their provincial cousins in the March 26 Quebec election, nonetheless … Like just about everyone who met and mentored Dumont, professor Perry Calce often wondered about the politics of the shy, friendly and politically ambiguous student who always sat at the front of the class. CANADA: Quebec election boosts Harper's cause. Marois ran in both previous PQ leadership races. The Quebec Liberal Partyfielded a full slate of 125 candidates in the 2007 Quebec provincial election, and elected forty-eight members to form a minority governmentafter the election. edical technology firm Becton Dickinson & Company (BD) moved into the booming healthcare-associated infection (HAI) field in early 2006 with the acquisition of GeneOhm Sciences, a San Diego-based firm founded in 2001. During the Charlottetown negotiations, when Dumont was still with the Liberals, "I spent an hour explaining every detail of the accord," Parisella says. Just 24 hours after his candidacy announcement, Gilles Duceppe chose to withdraw from the race. But whether Canadians vote now or later, it's already obvious that Quebec's latest, not-so-quiet revolution will have repercussions far beyond the province's borders. ", Bourassa could be opaque about his loyalties during a crisis, "but he always came down on the side of federalism," Parisella continues. But just like the big-city swells in Toronto and Vancouver who didn't see Stephen Harper coming a year ago, they mistook their life for that of their country neighbours. His fellow students liked beer; Dumont's trip was politics, and he would spend upwards of 40 hours a week writing policy for the Young Liberals. Unlike Parizeau and Bouchard, Dumont abandoned his support for secession the day after the Yes side lost. Contrast that with the man who rose from Cacouna. I'm not so sure. Liberal Premier Robert BOURASSA, himself at times a maddeningly ambiguous man, made sure his youth wing was well stocked with like-minded politicos - in part to ensure that the Parti Québécois didn't become the only party where Quebec nationalists could feel at home. 2007 elections provide evidence that voter attachments to two of the three major parties – the Parti Liberal du Québec (PLQ) and the Parti Québécois (PQ) appear to be weakening. He hit his head against a wall repeatedly, and took to throwing pocket change around the room as his teammates looked on. Listen to the audio pronunciation of Québec Solidaire candidates, 2007 Quebec provincial election on pronouncekiwi. 19 février 2007. ", Perhaps it should simply no longer surprise anyone to learn that one man who saw Dumont's rise coming was Harper. "There is another opposition party, another party leader, Mario Dumont, who doesn't want a referendum.". Québec Solidaire fielded 123 candidates in the 2007 Quebec provincial election, none of whom were elected. GeneOhm's 2004 merger with Québec City-based Infectio Diagnostic, gave it an extensive base in the field. [1][2] His decision ensued from the sweeping popular support for Pauline Marois, as described in a CROP poll on La Presse's front-page the day after the announcement. Furthermore, although voter support for the Action Démocratique du Québec (ADQ) But the speech was an utter disaster for Dumont back home: Dumont had forgotten to show up with a list of powers he would seek from Ottawa, or federal "intrusions" he would guard against. But the damage to the PQ and the broader Quebec secessionist movement was even more devastating. Could two establishment favourites forever keep a determined challenger out of the winners' circle? When a series of incidents raised the "reasonable accommodation" question last autumn, Dumont stood solidly for the right of old-stock Quebecers to demand that immigrants adapt to Québécois ways. The resolutely nationalist boy from the village of Cacouna filled his victory speech with the kind of colourful boilerplate that might have been borrowed from René Lévesque. Boisclair impressed most analysts and PQ followers during the election campaign but, on March 26, 2007, the PQ was nonetheless sent back to a third party status at the National Assembly as the third party in number of seats. In my head I associated the flag with the PQ, which is false. Despite the historical blow for the PQ to its representation in the National Assembly, independence retains a stable support around 45%. The PQ was reduced to its lowest share of the popular vote since 1970, the Liberals to their lowest since 1976. And Mario is a small-c conservative at heart. On Monday night, Mario Dumont and his ACTION DÉMOCRATIQUE DU QUÉBEC party became the blunt instruments of a chastening electoral blow delivered by Quebecers to their entrenched political elites. 9:51:51. Harper insists he wants to keep governing, not to start yet another campaign. "Today, Quebecers went to the polls to write a page of history," he thundered from the podium. The PQ has seemed dead before, and always manages to get up off its deathbed. Watch Queue Queue This video is unavailable. Publicité du Directeur général des élections du Québec (DGEQ) pour les élections 2007. The Parti Québécois leadership election of 2007 elected the seventh leader of the Parti Québécois, the main political party to promote Quebec independence in Quebec, Canada, and was won by Pauline Marois. "While not in itself a conservative movement," Harper and Flanagan wrote, Quebec's bleu streak "appeals to the kinds of voters who in other provinces support conservative parties.". Aubin, Benoit, and Martin Patriquin , and Paul Wells . Charest has promised $700 million in income-tax cuts straight out of Harper's fiscal-imbalance kitty. "We didn't consider Mario a sovereigntist because no one could remember the party's program," writes Néron. Help us improve. "Election 2007 Changes Quebec's Political Landscape". Quebec elections are never dull because they are full of colourful characters, intrigue and more than a few surprises. Many saw Dumont as no better than a xenophobe. As it turned out, Dumont's very outsider status became his issue. On Tuesday, Parliament Hill was alive with rumours of a snap federal election, so Harper could cash in the chits Quebec voters delivered to him on Monday. Charest has come close to losing his provincial seat before. Sign in to disable ALL ads. (The same sentiment was voiced, in almost the same words, by Stephen Harper the next morning in Ottawa.). From four seats in 2003, Dumont's party - heretofore more a conservative nationalist cult of personality erected like so much rickety scaffolding around its young leader - rocketed to 41 seats and 31 per cent of the popular vote, ahead of the PARTI QUÉBÉCOIS and only seven seats behind Jean CHAREST's incumbent Liberals. He won by a margin of 3.7 per cent in the 2007 Quebec election, and held on by fewer than eight points in 2003 and 2008. On Monday, at the ADQ party headquarters in Rivière-du-Loup, the Lower Gaspé riding Dumont has represented in the National Assembly since 1994, there was little room for fancy theories about renewed federalism and the end to the always-looming separatist threat. I have just modified 18 external links on Quebec general election, 2007. During the 2007 campaign, he promoted more private sector involvement in Quebec's health system. Thank you for helping build the largest language community on the internet. Please take a moment to review my edit . Duceppe had long been touted as a replacement for Boisclair as head of the Parti Québécois. In a 1997 magazine article he co-wrote with political scientist Tom Flanagan, Harper said a pan-Canadian conservative movement must reach out to the so-called bleu strain of Quebec nationalism, which gave rise to Maurice Duplessis and the Union Nationale two generations ago. In the 2006 election, three of Stephen Harper's bumper crop of 10 Quebec Conservative MPs turned out to have roots in Dumont's party, not in the provincial Liberals. The reviews in local papers were rhapsodic. This event created a sizable amount of criticism from within the sovereigntist movement and prompted a surprised Duceppe to deny the allegations. "The ADQ has made one big mistake, and it was that speech," says Guy Laforest, a Université de Laval political science professor who was the ADQ's party president in 2002. 2007 Quebec general election: Borduas; Party Candidate Votes % ±% Parti Québécois: Pierre Curzi: 12,529: 38.76 −8.06 Action démocratique: Claude Gauthier: 10,123 The 2003 Quebec general election was held on April 14, 2003, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec (Canada). Une recherche des mots «crise+Québec» sur Google donne 1 220 000 résultats: "Forty-four per cent of Quebecers don't pay tax," Facal said. If there was one place for Dumont to explore the nuances between nationalism and federalism it was in the Quebec Liberal party's youth wing in the late '80s and early '90s. Candidates had until June 26, 2007 to officially declare; no other candidate did so and Marois was acclaimed. Pierre Curzi, an actor and former Union des artistes president, was a third name often mentioned by the media for a possible candidacy. Aubin, Benoit et al. Standing in front of what Laforest calls "the biggest Canadian flag in the history of humanity," Dumont had blown his nationalist street cred. On May 4, at an interview taping of the SRC television programme Les coulisses du pouvoir, Boisclair claimed to believe in an attempt from Gilles Duceppe's entourage to unseat him so Duceppe can become the PQ leader. Thu., March 22, 2007 timer 3 min. His support of the Yes side was tentative to say the least. Imprimez cet article | Ecrivez à l'auteur. June 26, 2007: Marois is acclaimed PQ leader. The Charest government’s first mandate had been very In 2002, he received a Master of Business Administration degree. Meanwhile Dumont, who has increased his share of the popular vote in every one of the four elections he has contested, is a step closer to becoming Quebec premier - a dream inscribed in his yearbook caption way back some 20 years ago. It belongs to everyone.". "In real life, small-town Quebec is not much different from small-town Canada." Quebec Elections, 1960-2007. Stelmach's victory also had elements of the country-mouse rebellion against a provincial metropolis - Calgary in Stelmach's case, Montreal in Dumont's - that would be so important to Dumont's breakthrough. Born into a Liberal family in Cacouna, Dumont was a precocious, devoted student who read the dictionary in his downtime and whose circle of friends consisted of his three teammates on the school's quiz-show team, including François Lizotte, the candidate in Hull who came in third on Monday. Génies en Herbe, the French version of Reach for the Top, was Dumont's raison d'etre in high school. 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