Word: parizeau
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...state with Parizeau as its and first president threatens not only...
...party pledged to separatism won a majority of the seats in Quebec's provincial election last night, for the first time in nearly a decade. The Parti Quebecois, led by Jacques Parizeau, won 45 percent of the popular vote and captured 77 of the 125 seats in the Quebec legislature. But the size of the win was a major disappointment for the PQ loyalists; opinion polls taken before the election had indicated the reigning Liberal Party would be trounced by a much larger margin. The lukewarn endorsement of Parizeau's party indicates that Quebec residents are not ready to jump...
Politicians ((in English-speaking Canada)) get red in the face and say Parizeau can't do this. But Quebecois own about a quarter of the money supply. If they want to keep the Canadian dollar as legal currency, nothing can prevent them...
...accord has diminished his faith in federalism. After the failure of Meech Lake, he served notice on Mulroney that , Quebec would no longer take part in constitutional conferences; instead, it will deal directly with the federal government in Ottawa. The leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, Jacques Parizeau, hopes to form a breakaway alliance with Bourassa's Liberal Party, but the premier's chief negotiator with Ottawa, Gil Remillard, still refers to his job as "maintaining federalism...
...Quebec, Jacques Parizeau, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, struck a pose shoulder to shoulder with his rival Bourassa. "Canada is saying no to Quebeckers," he declared. "I say to my premier, let's try to find a way together to the future of Quebec...