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Lucien Bouchard

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Lucien Bouchard , 1938-, French-Canadian separatist leader, b. Quebec. A lawyer and a political ally of Brian Mulroney , Bouchard served under him as Canada's ambassador to France (1985-88) and environment minister (1989-90). In 1990 he broke with Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative party over the failed Meech Lake Accord and formed the Bloc Québécois, a Quebec separatist party intended to complement the provincial Parti Québécois (PQ) on the federal level. In the 1993 elections the party became the second largest in the Canadian parliament, an... Read more

Bouchard, Lucien
Bouchard, Lucien (b. 22 Dec. 1938). Premier of Quebec 1996–2001 Born at Saint Cœur-de-Marie (Quebec), he studied law at Laval University... Read more

Jean Charest
...Charest proved himself a highly persuasive advocate of Canadian federalism and an important counterinfluence to Lucien Bouchard 's impassioned separatist stance. Charest led the his party to a modest recovery in the 1997 national elections... Read more

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	El independentismo se desinfla.(después de dimisión del primer ministro Lucien Bouchard; Quebec, Canadá)(TT: The waning of the independence movement.)(TA: after dismissal of Prime Minister Lucien Bouchard; Québec, Canada) ; La dimisión de Lucien Bouchard sume a los separatistas de Quebec...n el primer ministro de Quebec, Lucien Bouchard, el pasado 11 de enero. El hombre...un líder con el carisma de Bouchard. Bouchard asumió la jefatura... Read more
	Apres Bouchard; Canada; A setback for Quebec's separatists.(The Americas)(Premier Lucien Bouchard resigns)(Brief Article) ; ...be sold to the people of Quebec, Lucien Bouchard had seemed the man to sell it. Last week, however, the mercurial Mr Bouchard abruptly resigned from his dual...40% still want secession. But Mr Bouchard's exit is certainly a heavy blow... Read more
	Trudeau attacks Bouchard.(Pierre Trudeau, Lucien Bouchard) ; ...wrote a 3,500-word letter denouncing Lucien Bouchard, the Premier of Quebec. I accuse Lucien Bouchard of having betrayed the population of...Canadians who did not share his views, Lucien Bouchard went beyond the limits of honest and... Read more
	Bouchard take over Quebec: Canada. (premier Lucien Bouchard) ; For at least two years, Lucien Bouchard has been the most popular politician...Quebecois (PQ) that rules it. Mr Bouchard has played diverse roles in the ten...in the Quebec legislature, and Mr Bouchard was outshining the province's PQ... Read more
	Lucien Bouchard will have blood on his hands if violence erupts. ; Lucien Bouchard will have blood on his hands if the quest...of people. It could happen again, and Bouchard's inflammatory rhetoric only increases...Human Rights. The democratic rights that Bouchard seeks are not democracy but licence: the... Read more
	Quebec premier resigns; Lucien Bouchard: He takes the blame for failure to gain independence ; QUEBEC (AP) - Lucien Bouchard announced his resignation as Quebec...approach. In his resignation statement, Bouchard, speaking in French, said his role...citizens to the gravity of the situation." Bouchard made the announcement after holding... Read more
	Quebec confab.(Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard promotes fashion trade between Quebec and US)(Brief Article) ; * QUEBEC CONFAB:: Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard was in New York last week to help support the Quebec Government House's first Synergi-que meeting. The purpose of the presentation... Read more
	LUCIEN BOUCHARD.(primer ministro de Quebec, Canadá)(TT: Lucien Bouchard.)(TA: Prime Minister of Québec, Canada)(Entrevista) ; ...el impulsor del independentismo de la francófona Quebec, a cuyo frente ha iniciado ahora un segundo mandato. Lucien Bouchard, que acaba de realizar una gira por Europa (Cataluña incluida), espera crear las condiciones para que el pr... Read more
	Wasn't he there?(Jean Chretien and Lucien Bouchard mistake Confederation year in speech)(Brief Article) ; ...Confederation was in the year 1863 instead of 1867. Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard followed suit later in the day, pegging the date at 1868. The...leaders made their mistakes at a conference on federalism. Mr. Bouchard later corrected himself. Read more
	News from the Western frontier (Rumour that secret negotiations are taking place between Lucien Bouchard and the western premiers) ; ...negotiations are taking place between Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard, B.C. Premier Glen Clark, and Alberta Premier Ralph...by the six per cent who call themselves bilingual. Bouchard was reported to have dismissed them with the French... Read more

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