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RIN political aims |
Quebec history
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| Culture |
"The only official language of the State of Quebec shall be French." |
The French language was made Official Language of Quebec in 1974 by the Official Language Act under the Liberal government of Robert Bourassa. It was reinforced by the Charter of the French Language, adopted in 1977 by the Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque.
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| "In Free Quebec, instruction shall be free at all levels." |
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| "The organization and functioning of public instruction must be dependent on a Department of National Education." |
A Ministry of Education was created under the Liberal government of Jean Lesage.
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| "In Free Quebec, the State shall have to assure citizens of various confessions the schools they desire. In pursuance of the same principle of respect of beliefs, non-confessional schools shall be created. To apply such a system, the State shall need to establish the will of parents through the way of census, or other means." |
Linguistic school networks, completly detached from religious denominations, were established in 1997 under the Parti Québécois government of Lucien Bouchard.
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| "In Free Quebec, there shall be no sales or income tax for activities of a cultural nature, as opposed to the present situation." |
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| "The State of Quebec shall establish a national network of radio-telebroadcasting, and an organization that shall be responsible and independent from politics, that shall be charged with the monitoring of private networks and stations. The national network of the State of Quebec shall collaborate with the international networks of radio-telebroadcasting." |
A state-run Quebec television network, Radio-Québec (now known as Télé-Québec), was created in 1968 under the Union Nationale government of Daniel Johnson, Sr.
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| Economy |
"In Free Quebec, public services with the characteristics of a monopoly shall become, progressively, according to possibilities, propriety of the State and shall be administered by it according to the common good." |
Power companies were nationalized into Hydro-Québec by the Liberal government of Jean Lesage and his Minister of Natural Resources René Lévesque in 1963.
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| "The government of Free Quebec shall establish a national lottery from which revenues shall serve the financing of social security." |
Loto-Québec, a Quebec government agency operating lotteries, was created in 1969 under the Union Nationale government of Jean-Jacques Bertrand.
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| Society |
"In Free Quebec, the woman, on the legal point-of-view, shall be the equal of the man. She shall have all civil and political rights of the citizen. Consequently, she shall have access to all careers, and, for the same work, she shall receive the same salary as the man." |
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| "The State must assure the family a standard of living up to the requirements of human dignity, by social security mesures, such as family allowances with escalating rates, free medical care, education gratuity and help in family housing." |
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| "The State must establish and apply a national health and public welfare program that shall notably provide medical and dental care for all citizens. [...]" |
The Quebec health insurance system was created on November 1, 1970 by the Liberal government of Robert Bourassa and his Minister of Health Claude Castonguay. Dental care has however never been included in this publicly funded health care system.
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| "All legislation relating to worker matters shall be updated and coordinated in a labour code." |
The Labour Code of Quebec was adopted in 1964 by the Liberal government of Jean Lesage.
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| Politics |
"The RIN advocates the establishment in Free Quebec of a truly democratic political system, in which political power shall be exercized for the good of the population and shall no more be at the mercy of the powers of money." |
The Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque passed the Act to govern the financing of political parties, banning corporate donations to political parties and limiting individual contributions to $3,000 per year. It would inspire a federal law more than two decades later. The Referendum Act was also passed by the Lévesque government to notably regulate financial spending in Quebec referendums.
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| "In Free Quebec, representation at the National Assembly shall have to be, as much as possible, proportional to the population." |
Early in its history, The Parti Québécois wrote in its platform the aim of reforming the political system in Quebec towards proportional representation. However, it has not implemented it while holding power. This project has also been included in the platforms of such parties as the Action démocratique du Québec and Québec solidaire. The Liberal Party of Quebec promised such a reform during the election campaign of 2003 but the minor system changes that resulted did not satisfy most activists.
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| "The Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale claims total political independence for Quebec and the proclamation of the republic." |
The Parti Québécois has independence for political aim (like Québec solidaire and a number of parties since the 1960s), but also favours a supranational union with Canada, if it can be concluded in post-referendum negociation. The Parti Québécois, as have been most Quebec independence movement, supports a republican government in an independent Quebec.
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| Others |
The RIN used the terms "State of Quebec" (rather than "province"), "national" and "National Assembly" (rather than "Legislative Assembly"). |
"State of Quebec" (État du Québec) was also used by Jean Lesage and his ministers; it has remained in the Quebec vernacular since. The Legislative Assembly of Quebec was renamed National Assembly of Quebec during the late 1960s by the Union nationale government. Various other public (and also private) Quebec institutions have since been officially named "national", notably under the Parti Québécois government of Bernard Landry.
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