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The Senate of Canada is Canada's unelected upper chamber. It currently has three non-party parliamentary groups: the Independent Senators Group (ISG), the Canadian Senators Group (CSG), and the Progressive Senate Group (PSG). These three groups do not share a formal ideology, platform, or membership in any one political party; the caucuses ...
The Parti 51 is a political party in the Canadian province of Quebec that was founded in the late 1980s under the leadership of Serge Talon. The party has proposed the separation of Quebec from Canada in order to seek admission to the United States as the 51st state of the American union. The party had no success in winning any seat in 1989 ...
The People's Party of Canada (PPC; French: Parti populaire du Canada) is a federal political party in Canada. The party was formed by Maxime Bernier in September 2018, shortly after his resignation from the Conservative Party of Canada. It is placed on the right to far right of the left–right political spectrum.
Parti Québécois. The Parti Québécois ( French for 'Quebec Party'; PQ; pronounced [paʁti kebekwa]) is a sovereignist [10] and social democratic [2] provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishing a sovereign state.
Lévesque was born in the Hôtel Dieu Hospital in Campbellton, New Brunswick, on August 24, 1922. He was raised in New Carlisle, Quebec, on the Gaspé Peninsula, by his parents, Diane (née Dionne) and Dominic Lévesque, a lawyer. [3] He had three siblings, André, Fernand and Alice. [citation needed] His father died when Lévesque was 14 years ...
The leader of the Official Opposition (French: chef de l'Opposition officielle), formally known as the leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition (French: chef de la loyale opposition de Sa Majesté), is the politician who leads the Official Opposition in Canada, typically the leader of the party possessing the most seats in the House of Commons that is not the governing party or part of the ...
Parti patriote; Parti rouge; Parti tory; Other historical parties that held seats in the National or Legislative Assembly. Parti nationaliste chrétien 1968–1969; Les Démocrates 1978–1979; Parti démocrate créditiste 1980; Option nationale 2011–2017; Other historical parties that nominated candidates. Parti communiste du Québec 1921–2002
The Parti canadien ( French pronunciation: [paʁti kanadjɛ̃]) or Parti patriote ( pronounced [paʁti patʁiɔt]) was a primarily francophone political party in what is now Quebec founded by members of the liberal elite of Lower Canada at the beginning of the 19th century. Its members were made up of liberal professionals and small-scale ...