Following the resignation of Daniel Johnson as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party in 1998, the prospect of Jean Charest becoming the party's new leader began to attract widespread public support.

In 2004, she won the Parti Québécois candidacy for the coming by-election in her native riding, Laurier-Dorion, and began a campaign of outspoken left-wing and sovereigntist politics ( opposing the Charest government ).

Mulroney played an influential role by supporting the merger at a time when former PC leaders Joe Clark, Jean Charest and Kim Campbell either opposed it or expressed ambivalence.

When Mulroney announced his retirement as PC leader and prime minister, Charest was a candidate for the leadership of the party at the 1993 Progressive Conservative leadership convention.

Régis Labeaume ( left ), Stephen Harper ( centre ) and Jean Charest at the: fr: Forum mondial de la langue française | Forum mondial de la langue française in Quebec City on July 2, 2012.

A poll conducted by Léger Marketing for Le Devoir placed the Liberals at 34 per cent against 32 per cent for the PQ and 24 per cent for the ADQ, with Charest obtaining a higher personal approval rating than the PQ leader.

In the last week of the campaign, Charest promised an additional $ 700 million in tax cuts — some of it coming for the additional equalization money from the 2007 federal budget ; reduction of hospital wait times ; improvement and increase of French courses at school ; an increase of the number of daycare spaces ; and an increase in tuition fees for university students ($ 50 per semester until 2012 ).

Jean Charest and his wife, Michèle Dionne, at the Festival Western de Saint-Tite in Saint-Tite, Quebec on September 7, 2008.

Manning was attacked, however, for not appearing at federalist rallies in Quebec, as Prime Minister Chrétien and new Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest had done.

On September 27, 2007, in a ceremony attended by Premier Jean Charest, a former electrical power station in Montreal, at the corner of Wellington and Queen streets, known as Poste Central-1 was named in honour of Godbout.

Bachand was one of many who unsuccessfully tried to convince Charest to remain in federal politics for at least one more election.

On December 13, 2000, the leader of the opposition Liberal Party, Jean Charest, presented to the National Assembly of Quebec a motion condemning references to " an ethnic vote against the sovereignty of the people of Quebec " and speaking of B ' nai Brith as " an extremist group against quebecers and against sovereignty ", as expressed by Yves Michaud at the Estates-General.

In early 2010, Douglas became the first American political leader to receive the National Order of Quebec from the government of Quebec and Premier Jean Charest at a ceremony at the Quebec National Assembly.

Jean Charest was one of only two Progressive Conservative Members of Parliament returned in the 1993 election and was appointed leader by the party's executive with the decision later being affirmed at a regular party convention two years later.

On February 12, 2007, Baird appeared at a press conference with Stephen Harper and Quebec Premier Jean Charest to announce a $ 1. 5 billion environmental fund for the provinces.

On March 17, 2008, on the 175th anniversary of Montreal's St. Patrick Society, Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced the creation of the Johnson chair of Irish studies at Concordia University.

The party was massively in debt at that time following the 1997 election, the loss of Jean Charest to the Quebec Liberals and the onslaught of the Reform Party of Canada / Canadian Alliance.

Coming at a time when the Charest government was low in opinion polls, her victory in the Laurier-Dorion was described as historic for reasons other than Lefebvre's relative youth.

Schreiber stated that he had donated $ 30, 000 in cash to the unsuccessful 1993 PC leadership campaign of Jean Charest through his brother Robert Charest ; this was legal at that time.

Polls taken at the time of his leadership victory in November 2005 suggested that Boisclair's Parti Québécois would win a landslide victory over the incumbent Liberal Party of Jean Charest.

* Travis Charest at the Big Comic Book DataBase

* February 5 – 6: Emerald City ComiCon ( Qwest Field Event Center, Seattle, Washington ) — guests include Adam Kubert, Jhonen Vasquez, Tony Harris, Josh Middleton, Travis Charest, Cary Nord, Steve McNiven, Mike Choi, Russ Heath, Michael Lark, David Finch, Eric Powell, Dustin Nguyen, Roy Thomas, Andy Owens, Drew Johnson, Pete Woods, Jason Pearson, Tim Sale, Brian Michael Bendis, Kurt Busiek, Robert Kirkman, Jim Cheung, Ed Brubaker, Sean Chen, Peter Bagge, Jim Woodring, Greg Rucka, Alex Maleev, Scott Kurtz, Crab Scrambly, Dexter Vines, Gail Simone, Jay Faerber, John Layman, Ford Gilmore, David Hahn, Matthew Clark, Tom Peyer, Karl Kesel, Rebecca Woods, Jeff Parker, Steve Lieber, Ron Randall, Paul Guinan, Steve Rolston, Takeshi Miyazawa, Dave Stewart, Matt Haley, Bill Schelly, and Steve Sadowski

Many prominent Tories got their start in the youth wing, including: Brian Mulroney, Joe Clark and Jean Charest.

He has worked as an assistant to Environment Minister Jean Charest in Ottawa and to Justice Minister Edward Roberts in St. John's, and was policy advisor and speechwriter to the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Brian Tobin.

In April 1998, Charest gave in to considerable public and political pressure, especially among business circles, to leave federal politics and become leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.

The group usually targets Canadian politicians, and has pied former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, provincial premiers such as Jean Charest and Ralph Klein, and cabinet ministers such as Stéphane Dion, Allan Rock and Pierre Pettigrew, among other political figures.

After the Liberals won the 2003 election, Gagnon-Tremblay became deputy premier from May 2003 to February 2005 in the Charest government, and has held various cabinet posts including minister of international relations as well as minister responsible for la francophonie.

Scott Lobdell provided the writing for the initial seven issues as well as a Mosaic oneshot detailing the change in Lord Emp, with Travis Charest penciling most of them.

Charest impressed many observers and party members, and placed a strong second to Defence Minister Kim Campbell, who had held a large lead going into the convention.

Charest was considered by many to be the best hope for the federalist QLP to defeat the sovereignist Parti Québécois government.

The presence of Charest brought many notables to the village, including Jacques Chirac.

After the publication of the book, Jean Charest, a former Cabinet minister under Mulroney and current premier of Quebec, came to his defence in a press conference, saying that he agrees with the statement that " Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

* 21 – 34: Alan Moore ( Writer ), and various artists ( Jim Lee, Mat Broome, Travis Charest and others )

Charest stated in 2000 that while he did not use a computer for his artwork, he would be using one soon, and anticipated they would be a necessity for professional artists.

John James " Jean " Charest, PC (; born June 24, 1958 ) is a Canadian politician who served as the 29th Premier of Quebec, from 2003 to 2012.

Charest was the leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1993 to 1998 and has been the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party since 1998.

The party was back from the brink, but Charest considered the result a disappointment.

Much of the fiscal policy of the Charest government has been based upon the expectation that new revenues could be obtained from a resolution of the fiscal imbalance believed to exist between the federal and provincial governments.

In office however, Charest retreated from his promise.

There was, however, significant tension between himself and members of the party, most notably the former Bourassa cabinet minister Pierre Paradis ( whom Charest excluded from his cabinet ) and the resignations of several important members of his cabinet, notably Finance Minister Yves Seguin, Justice Minister Marc Bellemare, and Environment Minister Thomas Mulcair.

In the late 1980s and early 90s, Charest was involved in the constitutional debate that resulted from Quebec's refusal to sign the Canadian Constitution of 1982.

In Quebec, the Liberal Party benefited from the collapse of support for the Progressive Conservative Party, after the PCs ' popular Québécois leader Jean Charest had resigned in 1998 and was replaced by former Prime Minister Joe Clark who was unpopular in Quebec which resulted in three PC members from Quebec defecting to join the Liberal Party prior to the election.

Some Reform Party supporters were frustrated by the party's decision to expand its political base into Quebec as they continued to believe that the party should represent English Canada and others from the right-wing and populist faction of the party were angry that Manning punished MPs Bob Ringma and David Chatters During the campaign the Reform Party released a controversial television advertisement where the faces of four Quebec politicians: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest, and the separatist Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard were crossed out followed by a message saying that Quebec politicians had dominated the federal government for too long and that the Reform Party would end this favoritism towards Quebec.

Charest and the Progressive Conservatives benefited from supporting distinct society in Quebec and resulted in the party rapidly rising in popularity amongst both francophones and non-francophones in Quebec, with polls indicating that Quebec voters preferred Charest over Gilles Duceppe, the leader of the Bloc Québécois.

In the previous election, they had collapsed from a strong majority government to only having two seats — those of Charest and Elsie Wayne.

Despite a vigorous challenge from Environment Minister Jean Charest, Campbell emerged victorious from the June leadership election and became Canada's first female prime minister.

On September 26, 2010, Quebec Premier, Jean Charest, wrote a letter to the editor of Maclean's condemning the magazine ’ s " twisted form of journalism and ignorance ," calling it " sensationalist ," " far from serious ," " simplistic " and " offensive ,", saying the editor " discredited " the magazine.

* January 24-Jean Charest resigns from cabinet after he was found to have spoken with a judge

There was some hope for cooperation from the PCs when Charest stepped down as leader in 1998.

In the liner notes of the soundtrack CD, Benoît Charest indicated that his music ideas stemmed from his desire to see if he could make a song using a refrigerator, a vacuum cleaner, and a piece of paper.

" Belleville Rendez-vous " is a song from the animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville ( 2003 ), with music by Benoît Charest and lyrics by Sylvain Chomet.

It attracted some interest and support from voters, enough for Charest to declare, days before voting day, that he could consider implementing a four-day week, although the PLQ has not mentioned this since the election.

" Soon after, Royal took a phone call from comedian Gérald Dahan pretending to be Quebec Premier Jean Charest, and was tricked into making a quip about Corsica's independence: " Not all French people would be opposed.