Word: parizeau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give way to bread-and-butter issues, he split his party and possibly jeopardized his eight-seat majority in Quebec's provincial parliament. Five cabinet ministers resigned, two legislators bolted, and half a dozen others threatened to quit the party. The defectors included Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau and Social Affairs Minister Camille Laurin, an author of the law that imposed French as Quebec's only official language...
...held by spring 1986 by focusing on economics and getting along with the popular new federal government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. But at a convention in June, the Parti Québécois had voted to make independence its main campaign issue. Abandoning that cherished goal, Parizeau said last week, would be "sterile and humiliating...