Parliamentary correspondent Manon Cornellier looks at the meteoric
rise of the Bloc Québécois and at its charismatic leader Lucien
Bouchard. In only five short years, the Bloc has gone from a tiny group of
independent MPs to the official opposition in the House of Commons. Yet
English-speaking Canadians know little about the party's history, its ideas,
how its politics differ from those of the Parti Québécois, or
what role the party intends to play in a sovereign Quebec.
The
Bloc describes:
- how the party was founded
- the help the Bloc has received from the Parti
Québécois and the Quebec Liberals
- the 1993 federal election campaign
- the Bloc's program and its record as the official
opposition
- Bouchard's brush with death and his re-entry into public
life
- relations between Lucien Bouchard and Jacques Parizeau
- the Bloc's role in the 1995 referendum on sovereignty the text
of the agreement struck by the Bloc, the Parti Québécois, and the
Action démocratique du Québec
Written by: Manon Cornellier. Published by James Lorimer
Company, 1995. |
