He attended university in Quebec, Canada, during the 1960s, during which time he met René Lévesque.

From 1956 to 1959, Lévesque became famous in Quebec for hosting a weekly television news program on Télévision de Radio-Canada ( the French-language counterpart of the CBC ) called Point de Mire.

According to a study made in 2006 by Le Journal de Montréal and Léger Marketing, René Lévesque was considered by far, according to Québécois, the best premier to run the province over the last 50 years.

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* René Lévesque begins hosting Point de Mire

Lévesque supported the co-operative movement and, through his Faculty, helped create new social welfare bodies such as the Conseil supérieur de la coopération and the Société d ' éducation des adultes, and to modernize Québec's church-controlled social welfare organizations.

* Les citations de René Lévesque ( 1977 ) with Jean Côté

* Référendum de René Lévesque ( 1979 ) with Jean Côté

Owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it is sister to Télévision de Radio-Canada outlet CBFT-DT and both share studios based at Maison Radio-Canada on René Lévesque Boulevard East in Downtown Montreal.

* Brian Mulroney ( Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993 ): Lyin ' Brian ; Le p ' tit gars de Baie-Comeau (" Little Guy from Baie-Comeau "), " The chin that walks like a man " ( a moniker given him by columnist Allan Fotheringham ), and " Mini Trudeau " ( a name given to him by René Lévesque for his similarities to Pierre Elliot Trudeau perceived by Quebec )

The eldest of four children, Lévesque was born in the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Campbellton, New Brunswick and raised 133 km away in New Carlisle, Quebec, in the Gaspé peninsula, by his parents, Diane ( née Dionne ) and Dominic Lévesque, a lawyer.

Lévesque covered international events and major labour struggles between workers and corporations that dogged the Union Nationale government of premier Maurice Duplessis culminating with a massive strike in 1957 at the Gaspé Copper Mine in Murdochville.

New Carlisle, Quebec is a small town in the Gaspé region of Quebec, Canada, best known as the boyhood home of René Lévesque ; although he was born at Campbellton, New Brunswick.

Endorsed by all provincial governments except that of Quebec ( led by René Lévesque ), this was the formal Canadian Act of Parliament that achieved full and final political independence from the United Kingdom.

* 1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.

The first was the defeat of the referendum on Quebec sovereignty, called by the Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque.

The election of the Parti Québécois led by René Lévesque in the province of Quebec in Canada, brings the first political party committed to Quebec independence into power in Quebec.

* October 14 – Quebec Nationalism: René Lévesque leaves the Liberal Party.

* November 1 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician and premier of Quebec ( b. 1922 )

** René Lévesque, 23rd Premier of Quebec ( d. 1987 )

Notable CBC alumni have included television and radio personalities, former Governors General of Canada Jeanne Sauvé, Adrienne Clarkson, and Michaëlle Jean, as well as former Quebec premier René Lévesque.

In 1977, an Order in Council by Lieutenant Governor Hugues Lapointe, on the advice of René Lévesque, declared June 24 the national holiday in Quebec.

The party's leader, René Lévesque, became the Premier of Quebec.

However, they notedly excluded René Lévesque, the Premier of Quebec, in the negotiations.

René Lévesque (; August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987 ) was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, ( 1960 – 1966 ), the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec ( November 25, 1976 – October 3, 1985 ).

In 1960, Lévesque entered politics and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the 1960 election as a Liberal Party member in the riding of Montréal-Laurier.

On October 14, 1967, Lévesque left the Liberal Party after its members refused to discuss the idea of a sovereign Quebec during its convention.

His party assumed power with 41. 1 per cent of the popular vote and 71 seats out of 110 ; René Lévesque became Premier of Quebec ten days later.

Lévesque was criticized by some in Quebec who said he had been tricked by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the English-Canadian provincial premiers.

Lévesque sculpture in front of the Parliament Building ( Quebec ) | Quebec Parliament Building

Lévesque was disappointed with the cold response by the American economic elite to his first speech in New York City as Premier of Quebec, in which he compared Quebec's march towards sovereignty to the American Revolution.

On September 4 and 5, 1962, Lévesque finally convinced his liberal cabinet colleagues to go ahead with the plan during a working retreat at a fishing camp north of Quebec City.

In Montreal, Édifice Hydro-Québec and Maison Radio-Canada are both located on René Lévesque Boulevard, fittingly as Lévesque once worked for Hydro-Québec and the CBC, respectively.

The hyphen between the words " sovereignty " and " association " was often stressed by Lévesque and other PQ members, to make it clear that both were inseparable.

He became friends with fellow Liberals René Lévesque and Robert Bourassa, who would both later become Premiers of Quebec.

Owned by the Société Radio-Canada arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it is sister to CBC Television outlet CBMT-DT and both stations share studios and master control facilities based at Maison Radio-Canada on René Lévesque Boulevard East in Downtown Montreal.

Blass wanted to kill Raymond Laurin and Roger Lévesque, both of whom had participated in the 1970 bank robbery and testified against him.

Lévesque had argued that the party should not make sovereignty the object of the 1985 election and instead opt for the " Beau risque " strategy of seeking an understanding with the federal government of Mulroney, which angered the strongest supporters of sovereignty within the party.

On December 6, 1780, a little over a month after his arrest, governor Haldimand accepted the request for the release of du Calvet which legislative counsellor François Lévesque had submitted him.

Since party leader René Lévesque had not won a seat in the 1973 election, Morin became leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly until the 1976 election, which the PQ won.

The sculpture garden which lies across René Lévesque Boulevard offers a full scale ghost-like lower shell of the bottom part of the Shaughnessy mansion, and assorted modernistic sculptures or constructs which are developed around the theme of architecture.

Lévesque did quit the Liberal Party, and established the Mouvement Souveraineté-Association, which became Quebec's leading sovereigntist party as the Parti Québécois.

At the end of Lévesque's speech, the crowd assembled to hear him speak stood up at the end of the speech and sang " Gens du pays ", which Lévesque called " the most beautiful Québécois song in the minds of all Quebecers.

In chapter V ( The Blind Alley ), Lévesque remarks that the vital minimum for Quebec is a " frightening maximum, completely unacceptable " for English Canada which needs the central State of Canada " for its own security and progress as much as we need our own State of Quebec ".

Appendix 2 ( Neo-Centralization ) contains the point of view of senator Maurice Lamontagne, who, in two articles published in Le Devoir on September 23 and 25, 1967, rejected the special status thesis of Claude Ryan and proposed a " cooperative federalism " in which René Lévesque saw nothing but a way to re-centralize powers in Ottawa.

Appendix 7 ( Operation Panic ) analyzes the flight of capital from Quebec which made the news soon after October 18, 1967, which is to say just after René Lévesque released the manifesto that forms the first part of An Option for Quebec.

This decision had caused a crisis within party ranks ( see Parti Québécois ), which was influential in the departure of René Lévesque.