Subsequently, with the passage of the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, Quebec's civil law became entirely statute based, using the civil law system for matters within provincial jurisdiction.

This requirement is enforced by state and provincial legislation such as Quebec's Engineers Act.

In 1987, he negotiated the Meech Lake Accord with the provincial premiers, a package of constitutional amendments designed to satisfy Quebec's demand for recognition as a " distinct society " within Canada, and to devolve some powers to the provinces.

The changing financial environment in the NHL made things even more difficult, and in 1995 team owner Marcel Aubut asked for a bailout from Quebec's provincial government as well as a new publicly funded arena.

Cornwall lies on the 45th parallel, approximately southeast of Ottawa, the national capital, southwest of Montreal, Quebec's largest city, and northeast of Toronto, the provincial capital.

As well, some provincial governments offer their own public educational TV broadcast services as well, such as Ontario's TVOntario and Quebec's Télé-Québec.

Thus, in 1999, the federal government and all provincial governments except Quebec's agreed to the Social Union Framework Agreement, which promoted common standards for social programs across Canada.

His influence on Quebec's politics can still be seen today in all major provincial parties.

Several attempts at reforming the federal system in Canada have thus far failed because of, particularly, the conflicting interests between Quebec's representatives and the other provincial governments ' representatives.

The city's garrison, a motley assortment of regular troops and militia led by Quebec's provincial governor, General Guy Carleton, suffered a small number of casualties.

These actions stimulated both British and rebel leaders to consider the possibility of an invasion of the Province of Quebec by the rebellious forces of the Second Continental Congress, and Quebec's governor, General Guy Carleton, began mobilizing the provincial defenses.

* Fiscal Responsibility: scaling back Quebec's civil service, reducing government spending in order to balance the budget and pay the provincial debt ;

Having precedence over all provincial legislation ( including the latter ), the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms stands at the pinnacle of Quebec's legal system.

On July 11, the mayor asked the Sûreté du Québec ( SQ ), Quebec's provincial police force, to intervene with the Mohawk protest.

In 1989, the NPDQ voted to disaffiliate from the federal NDP as a result of policy differences, such as the provincial party's opposition to the Meech Lake Accord ; its support for Quebec's language policy ; differences with the federal party over the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement ; and its more favourable position towards Quebec nationalism.

* Ungava ( electoral district ), Quebec's largest and most northern provincial riding

Others feared that if the National Assembly was empowered to promote Quebec's distinctiveness, a provincial government might decide Quebec must secede in order to keep its distinctiveness.

The sovereignty movement has spawned a variety of political parties, such as the Parti Québécois, a social democratic political party at the provincial level in Quebec that has governed the province for various periods since 1976, and the Bloc Québécois, which currently controls 4 of Quebec's 75 seats in the Canadian House of Commons, and which promotes Quebec sovereignty and purports to " defend the interests of Quebec " at the federal level of government.

In 1968, René Lévesque's Mouvement souveraineté-association joined forces with the Rassemblement pour l ' indépendance nationale and the Ralliement national to create the Parti Québécois ; Quebec's provincial political party that has since espoused the province's sovereignty.

Aubut asked for a bailout from Quebec's provincial government, but the request was turned down, as few in Quebec were willing to be seen as subsidizing a hockey club that paid multimillion-dollar salaries ( bailouts for Ottawa and Edmonton were also rejected for the same reason ).

Bill Clennett has since run for provincial office, standing as a Québec solidaire candidate in Hull in Quebec's 2007 and 2008 provincial elections.

On March 31, 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously that the interpretation made by the provincial administration of the " major part " criterion in Quebec's language of instruction provisions violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Quebec's Route 389 connects Route 138 adjacent to Baie-Comeau with the Newfoundland and Labrador border, connecting with the Trans-Labrador Highway ( Newfoundland and Labrador provincial highway 500 ) to Wabush and Labrador City, and beyond to Goose Bay.

The next day the Canadian government announces it will not meet the demand, beginning Quebec's October Crisis.

After the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord, which sought to amend the Constitution of Canada to resolve the passage by a previous government of the Constitution Act 1982 without Quebec's ratification, a pro-independence political party, the Bloc Québécois, was also created at the federal level.

He was a journalist with Le Devoir newspaper from 1945 to 1961, and was known for his crusading work against the government of Quebec's then-Premier Maurice Duplessis.

On June 22, 2010, Hydro-Québec and the government of Quebec commemorated Lévesque's role in Quebec's Quiet Revolution and his tenure as premier by renaming the 1244-megawatt Manic-3 generating station in his honour.

Lesage's election campaign ushered the Quiet Revolution, which began to change the traditional domination of Quebec's economy by English-speaking Quebeckers, and the traditional domination of the public lives of French-speaking Quebecers by the Roman Catholic Church was replaced by a larger role for the government of Quebec.

The Harper government is widely expected to address this issue through increased equalization payments, while falling short of Quebec's overall demands.

Despite the fact the federal government worked to strengthen its foreign affairs responsibilities as relinquished by Britain, the provinces have always had pretensions in this area, dating from Quebec's first representative to France in the 1886, Hector Fabre.

One of Mulroney's campaign promises was to pursue an agreement that would allow Quebec's government to sanction the Constitution.

The Quebec government set up the Allaire Committee and the Bélanger-Campeau Committee to discuss Quebec's future inside or outside of Canada.

* Electoral reform: implementing an election reform in which the Premier of Quebec would be elected by popular vote ( i. e., a presidential government ) and 50 of Quebec's 125 legislature seats would be determined by proportional representation ;

The Quebec government does not charge foreign student fees to students from France and certain other French-speaking countries, and France has also provided support for Quebec's national project, particularly during the era of President Charles de Gaulle.

The 1995 referendum differed from the first referendum on Quebec's sovereignty in that the 1980 question proposed to negotiate " sovereignty-association " with the Canadian government, while the 1995 question proposed " sovereignty ", along with an optional partnership offer to the rest of Canada.

The referendum was called by Quebec's Parti Québécois ( PQ ) government, which strongly favoured secession from Canada.

Between December 2008 and October 2010, Daniel Giguère he had worked for the Quebec's government as chief of staff of Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, MNA and president of Quebec's Treasury board and as special advisor for minister Dominique Vien, in charge of Government's services.

In the fall of 1943, the Godbout government tabled a bill to take control of MLH & P, the company running the gas and electric distribution in and around Montreal, Quebec's largest city.

The federal government was unwilling to intervene, and in 1984 and 1988 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled twice in Quebec's favour.

The resulting minority government would be Quebec's last until 1881.

In 2008 the government of Stephen Harper proposed an amendment to the process which would have seen Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario, the three provinces whose electoral districts currently have an average size larger than those in Quebec, given a total of 32 additional seats by applying Quebec's average of 105, 000.

It formed the government in the province, with Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau as Quebec's first premier.

While the Quebec government could infringe upon a right by saying Quebec's distinctiveness is a sufficient reason to do so under section 1 of the Charter, section 1 would still demand the infringement is minimized.