This combatant squadron was commanded by an air force Major PQ Mehdi ( later four-star general ).

The election of such a relatively large number of Bloquistes was the first of The Three Periods, a plan intended to lay out the way to sovereignty created by PQ leader Jacques Parizeau.

The Oui side's campaign had a difficult beginning, so the leadership of the campaign was shifted from PQ leader Jacques Parizeau to Bloc leader Lucien Bouchard.

Michel Gauthier, once Bloc's leader, was a PQ member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 until 1988.

The current party leader Daniel Paillé was also a PQ member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 1996, and a BQ member of Parliament from 2009 to 2011.

The first PQ government was known as the " republic of teachers " because of the large number of scholars who served as cabinet members.

The PQ was the first government to recognize the rights of Aboriginal peoples to self-determination, insofar as this self-determination did not affect the territorial integrity of Quebec.

Despite its social-democratic past, the PQ failed to gain admission into the Socialist International, after the membership application was vetoed by the federal New Democratic Party.

Bouchard resigned in 2001, and was succeeded as PQ leader and Quebec Premier by Bernard Landry, a former PQ Finance minister.

At the time of Boisclair's election, the PQ was as much as 20 percent ahead of the Liberals in opinion polls, suggesting that Boisclair would lead them to a landslide majority government in the next election.

The PQ was unable to maintain this momentum, and in the 2007 provincial election, the party fell to 36 seats and behind the conservative Action démocratique du Québec ( ADQ ) in number of seats and the popular vote: this is the first time since 1973 that the party did not form the government or Official Opposition.

This was effective immediately, although Boisclair confirmed he would remain within the PQ caucus for the time being.

All other children were required to attend French schools in order to encourage immigrants to integrate themselves into the majority French culture ( Lévesque was more moderate on language than some of the PQ, including language minister, Camille Laurin.

The proposal was rejected and, as a result, some Liberals, including senior Cabinet minister Lévesque, left the Liberals to join the sovereignty movement, participating in the founding of the Parti Québécois ( PQ ) under Lévesque's leadership.

In the 1998 election, the Quebec Liberals received more votes than the PQ, but because the Liberal vote was concentrated in fewer ridings, the PQ won enough seats to form another majority government.

In the first few weeks after André Boisclair was elected leader of the PQ, polls showed that Charest and the Liberals would be roundly defeated in the next election.

On election night, early numbers had showed Charest losing his seat of Sherbrooke to his PQ opponent ; however, this situation was reversed once it became apparent that the advanced poll ballot boxes which heavily favoured Charest had not yet been counted.

PQ 17 was the code name for an Allied World War II convoy in the Arctic Ocean.

After the PQ was elected to office in the 1976 provincial election, the new premier, René Lévesque, appointed Parizeau as Minister of Finance.

Parizeau was replaced by Lucien Bouchard as PQ leader and Quebec premier on January 29, 1996.

In the leadership election of 1985, Johnson was chosen, following PQ founder René Lévesque as leader of the party and, consequently, as Quebec Premier.

His leadership was contested by more radical PQ supporters, such as Gérald Godin.

In the 1985 election under his successor Pierre-Marc Johnson, the PQ was defeated by the Liberal Party.

L ' Allier was defeated against Parti Québécois ( PQ ) candidate Pierre de Bellefeuille in the 1976 election.

The riding of Laurier-Dorion was created for the 1994 election, in which Sirros defeated PQ candidate Benoît Henry by 6, 930 votes.

** Twenty-four ships are sunk by German bombers and submarines after Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union is scattered in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German battleship Tirpitz.

Richler acknowledged his 1977 error on the PQ song, blaming himself for having " cribbed " the information from an article by Irwin Cotler and Ruth Wisse published in the American magazine, Commentary.

The PQ passed laws on public consultations and the financing of political parties, which ensured equal financing of political parties and limited contributions by individuals to $ 3000.

The PQ won another term in the 1998 election, despite receiving fewer votes than the Quebec Liberal Party led by Jean Charest.

Boisclair said that the voters clearly did not support a strategy of a rapid referendum in the first mandate of a PQ government ( This is shown by recent polls which demonstrate most Quebecers are not ready for another separation referendum ).

The Bloc Québécois ( BQ ) is a federal political party founded in 1990 by future PQ leader Lucien Bouchard.

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.

He was succeeded as head of the PQ by Jacques Parizeau, who again made independence a primary goal.

The choice of Johnson was criticized by both leaders in opposition André Boisclair ( PQ ) and Mario Dumont ( Action démocratique du Québec ) because of the possibility of conflict of interest.

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.

In 1979 the PQ began an aggressive effort to promote sovereignty-association by providing details of how the economic relations with the rest of Canada would include free trade between Canada and Quebec, common tariffs against imports, and a common currency.

On August 26, 1977, the PQ passed two main laws: first, the law on the financing of political parties, which prohibits contributions by corporations and unions and set a limit on individual donations, and second, the Charter of the French Language.

The PQ then began an aggressive effort to promote sovereignty-association by providing details of how the economic relations with the rest of Canada would include free trade between Canada and Quebec, common tariffs against imports, and a common currency.

In the first television series of The League of Gentlemen a construction company called PQ Construction threatens the isolation of Royston Vasey by building a " New Road " near the Local Shop.

However, the ADQ's popularity declined significantly soon afterward and in the 2008 provincial elections, the party failed to secure at least twenty percent of the popular vote or twelve Members of the National Assembly ( MNAs ) in the last election, and consequently lost official party status, though in early 2009 it was recognized as an official party by the PLQ and the PQ.

It has strong informal ties to the Parti Québécois ( PQ, whose members are known as " Péquistes "), the provincial party that advocates for the secession of Quebec from Canada and its independence, but the two are not linked organizationally.

In 1995, the PQ government called the second referendum on independence in Quebec history.

The day after the referendum, Parizeau stepped down as PQ leader and Premier of Quebec.

The Parti Québécois ( PQ ) is a centre-left provincial political party in Quebec, Canada that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada.

However, the most prominent legacy of the PQ is the Charter of the French Language ( the Bill 101 ), a framework law which defines the linguistic primacy of French and seeks to make French the common public language of Quebec.

With the failure of the Charlottetown Accord and the Meech Lake Accord, two packages of proposed amendments to the Canadian constitution, the question of Quebec's status remained unresolved, and the PQ called the 1995 Quebec referendum proposing negotiations on sovereignty.

PQ leader Pauline Marois greets voters in Quebec City on the eve of the 2012 general election.

Gilles Duceppe, a former Bloc leader, is also the son of Jean Duceppe, a Quebec actor who helped found the PQ.

Second logo of the party, used from 1985 to 2007Compared to the Quebec Liberal Party, which has completely changed its logo often, the PQ has made very few significant modifications to its logo during its history.

On May 20, 1980, the PQ held, as promised before the elections, the 1980 Quebec referendum on its sovereignty-association plan.

In the April 2003 election, Charest led the Quebec Liberals to a majority, ending nine years of PQ rule.

He resigned as PQ leader and Quebec premier the next day.

His wife and former secretary during his premiership, Lisette Lapointe won a seat in the National Assembly as a candidate for the PQ in the provincial riding of Crémazie in the 2007 Quebec general election.

At the August 2004 Parti Québécois National Council, after a long period of reflection that began the day after the election, he announced on August 27, 2004, that he would remain president of the party, and lead the PQ to the next election in order to bring Quebec to independence.