• The Bloc populaire canadien (lit. 'Canadian Popular Bloc'), often shortened to the Bloc populaire or the Bloc, was a political party in the Canadian province...
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    The African People's Bloc (French: Bloc Populaire Africain, BPA) was a political party in French Dahomey. The party was established in 1946 by Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin...
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  • (2001–2002; split from Canadian Alliance), and Québec debout (2018; split from Bloc Québécois). The Senate of Canada is Canada's unelected upper chamber. It...
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      Leader Solon Earl Low Maxime Raymond Tim Buck Party Social Credit Bloc populaire Labor–Progressive3 Leader since April 6, 1944 February 10, 1943 1929...
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  • People's Rhinoceros Notable historical parties and groups Anti-Confederate Bloc populaire Canadian Alliance Conservative Co-operative Commonwealth Democratic...
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    Senegalese Popular Bloc (in French: Bloc Populaire Sénégalais (BPS)) was the result of the merger of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS) of Léopold Sédar...
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    government passed Bill 80 for overseas service. Protests exploded and the Bloc Populaire emerged to fight conscription. The stark differences between the values...
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    nationalist Bloc populaire, which opposed Canadian conscription during World War II, in a federal by-election. Drapeau lost the election. He was also a Bloc populaire...
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  • Conscription Crisis of 1944 may have contributed to his defeat. The Bloc Populaire won four seats on an anti-conscription platform. More importantly, they...
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    Europe's Jews from Hitler. Rose's main rival, Paul Massé, of the antiwar Bloc Populaire, who came second, was supported by most French-Canadians. As a Member...
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    conscription, Michel Chartrand became an outspoken opponent and joined the Bloc populaire canadien movement to campaign against conscription. In February 1942...
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  • politics. The Union populaire was succeeded by the Parti nationaliste du Québec in the 1984 federal election, and subsequently by the Bloc Québécois. Only...
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  • démocratique du Québec 1994–2012 Action libérale nationale 1934–c. 1939 Bloc Populaire Canadien 1943–1949 Ligue nationaliste canadienne 1908–1916 Fédération...
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  • Édouard Lacroix (category Bloc populaire canadien MPs)
    unworthy of their people and country." He left the Liberals and joined the Bloc Populaire Canadien on February 18, 1943. He resigned his seat on July 11, 1944...
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    political force wanted to enter Quebec politics: the anti-conscriptionist Bloc populaire. It was a brainchild of such figures as Lionel Groulx and Georges Pelletier [fr]...
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  • René Hamel (category Bloc populaire canadien MPs)
    Grand-Mère, Quebec, Mauricie. During World War II Hamel joined the Bloc Populaire Canadien, a political party that opposed conscription. He was the party’s...
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    October 1947 43 28 16 6 — 7 — — — Gallup July 1947 42 27 16 6 — 9 — — — Bloc populaire dissolved (July 6, 1947) Gallup May 1947 43 26 16 6 — 9 — — — Gallup...
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    André Laurendeau (category Bloc populaire MNAs)
    Laurendeau later took part in the founding of the centre-left party Bloc populaire Canadien, and soon became its provincial leader while Maxime Raymond...
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    The Left Bloc (Portuguese: Bloco de Esquerda, pronounced [ˈblɔku ðɨ ɨʃˈkeɾðɐ], BE), colloquially shortened as O Bloco, is a left-wing populist, democratic...
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    popular vote and no seats, and soon disbanded. He helped found the Bloc populaire canadien in 1942 but left it in early 1944 when André Laurendeau was...
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  • Joseph-Armand Choquette (category Bloc populaire canadien MPs)
    Commons of Canada representing the Bloc populaire canadien and was also the last surviving member of the Bloc populaire's caucus when he died in 1999 at the...
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  • party in 1942 over the conscription issue, many of whom joined the Bloc populaire canadien when it was formed that fall to campaign against the government...
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  • ±% Liberal Joseph-Achille Francoeur 12,977 39.78 -13.99 Union Nationale Édouard Asselin 11,411 34.98 +2.24 Bloc populaire J. Honoré Désy 8,235 25.24 -...
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    Duplessis again, this time placing their hopes in another new party, the Bloc populaire Canadien, led by André Laurendeau. Future Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau...
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  • government of the new Conservative Party. Further, in 1993 the separatist Bloc Québécois won seats for the first time. It has been a constant presence in...
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    in the small part of the riding in the Parc-Extension neighbourhood. The Bloc had its support concentrated in the borough of Outremont, and around the...
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    The New Ecological and Social People's Union (French: Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale, NUPES) is a left-wing electoral alliance of political...
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    Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon for eight years. His cousin was novelist and Bloc populaire canadien politician André Laurendeau. Aldéric Laurendeau – Parliament...
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  • Conservative Wilfrid Pagé 7,151 Co-operative Commonwealth Edward Wilson 6,967 Bloc populaire Louis-Philippe Hurtubise 3,060 Labor–Progressive Sam Bailey 874 Independent...
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