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Bloc Québécois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2273 words) |
 | Because the opposition vote in the rest of Canada was split between the Reform Party, the PC Party and the New Democratic Party, the Bloc narrowly won the second largest number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons, and therefore became the official opposition. |
| The 1997-2000 term was marked by the Bloc's fight against the passing of Bill C-20, engineered by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Stéphane Dion, a Quebec minister in Chretien's cabinet. |
| The current Bloc leader, Gilles Duceppe, is also the son of Jean Duceppe, a famous Quebec actor who helped found the PQ and the Quebec NDP. |
| Encyclopedia4U - Bloc Québécois - Encyclopedia Article (233 words) |
| The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to separating Quebec from the rest of the country. |
| In the 1993 election the Bloc became the official opposition in Canada's parliament under the leadership of Lucien Bouchard but in the 1995 Quebec referendum voters narrowly (50.5%) chose to remain in Canada. |
| The Bloc's leadership was briefly held by the Michel Gauthier and was then passed to Gilles Duceppe in 1997. |
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