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The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim sovereignty and become an independent country, with the condition precedent of offering a political and economic agreement to Canada.
Breaking Point (French: Point de rupture) is a Canadian documentary film, released in 2005.Aired on CBC Television in English and on Radio-Canada in French and released to mark the tenth anniversary of the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum, the film explored the dynamics of the referendum campaign through interviews with and news clips of several of the major players on both sides of the debate.
The goal of Quebec's sovereignist movement is to make Quebec an independent state. In practice, the terms independentist, sovereignist, and separatist are used to describe people adhering to this movement, although the latter term is perceived as pejorative by those concerned as it de-emphasizes that the sovereignty project aims to achieve political independence without severing economic ...
The film is in part a satire of the political and social rhetoric, on both sides of the issue, in the 1995 Quebec referendum on independence from Canada; [3] Carle was inspired by, and singled out for special opprobrium in his film, the notion offered by some of his sovereignist friends that Quebec independence would in and of itself solve the social problems of poverty, unemployment and ...
La Maison-Bleue ("The Blue House") is a Canadian television comedy series, which premiered in 2020 on Ici TOU.TV. [1]Created by Daniel Savoie and Ricardo Trogi, the series is set in an alternate reality in which the Yes side won the 1995 Quebec referendum, and stars Guy Nadon as Jacques Hamelin, the fourth president of the independent Republic of Quebec.
Two provincial referendums, in 1980 and 1995, rejected proposals for sovereignty, with majorities of 60% in 1980 and only 50.6% in 1995, respectively. Given the narrow federalist victory in 1995, a reference was made by the Chrétien government to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1996 regarding the legality of a unilateral secession of Quebec.
Quebec referendum may refer to one of the two referendums held solely in Quebec: 1980 Quebec referendum, the 1980 plebiscite to grant the Government of Quebec a mandate to negotiate sovereignty-association; 1995 Quebec referendum, the 1995 referendum to allow the Government of Quebec, after offering a partnership to Canada, to declare independence
1995 - October 30: Referendum on Sovereignty with optional partnership offer. The No side narrowly won. Officially though, there have been four, as the 1992 pan-Canadian referendum was organized by the DGEQ in Quebec, whereas Elections Canada organized it in the rest of Canada.