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The Union Nationale government of Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand passed the legislation, known as " Bill 90 ", to implement the change.

Previous governments had made unsuccessful attempts to eliminate the upper chamber.

In fact, the first attempt dated all the way back to Félix-Gabriel Marchand in the late nineteenth century.

Quebec was the last Canadian province to abolish its unelected upper house.