Animator Céline Galipeau, in the July 25, 1990 edition, confirms that six federal deputies, disappointed with the failure of the Canadian Constitution reform (new window)Proposed by the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, have just formed an informal movement that they baptize the Bloc Québécois.
The report by journalist Louise Lafontaine on the official creation of the Bloc Québécois
Five deputies of the progressive-conservative party and a deputy for the Liberal Party of Canada, recalls the report by journalist Louise Lafontaine, then joined Lucien Bouchard, deputy and Minister of the Environment who slammed the door of the Mulroney government on May 22, 1990.
The latter unite to defend only the interests of Quebec in the Parliament of Canada.
The five conservative deputies who abandoned on July 25, 1990 the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney are Gilbert Chartrand, François Guérin, Nic Leblanc, Louis Plamondon and Benoît Tremblay.
The deputy Jean Lapierre, who had left the liberal benches on June 26, 1990 following the election of Jean Chrétien at the head of the Liberal Party of Canada, is added to the ex-conservative deputies, followed on September 19, 1990 by his colleague Gilles Rocheleau.
The common objective of these dissident deputies is the obtaining of Quebec sovereignty.
Louise Lafontaine’s report gives the floor to conservative ministers who do not seem too concerned about the formation of the Quebec Bloc, as long as the number of its deputies remains limited.
They should have worried.
On August 13, 1990, Gilles Duceppe was elected under the banner of the Bloc Québécois during the by-election in the district of Laurier-Sainte-Marie.
In the federal election of October 25, 1993, (new window) The Bloc Québécois will earn 54 of the 74 constituencies that then includes Quebec in the Federal Parliament.
The Liberal Party of Canada will win 19 and the Progressive-Conservative Party of Canada, only one.