The Quebec Ombudsman has a social contract with Quebecers to ensure the transparency of the state.

* Quebec Ombudsman

Following the resolution of the Crisis and expiration of the War Measures Act, Choquette brought in the services of the Quebec Ombudsman and provided the vehicle by which anyone unjustly treated had their case reviewed and given proper compensation.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

There is no corresponding right to a writ in any pure or continental civil law legal systems, though some mixed systems such as Quebec recognize these prerogative writs.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

The largest cantilever bridge is the Quebec Bridge in Quebec, Canada.

Bombardier Inc. () is a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.

In Quebec, the term borough is generally used as the English translation of arrondissement, referring to an administrative division of a municipality.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

In other parts of Canada a degree is usually attained as a 4 year study program, and to a much lesser degree now ( except in Quebec, where it is the norm ), in 3 years.

For example, the Canadian province of Quebec, which is French-speaking, has its own system of French-speaking television, movie and music celebrities.

Given the federal nature of the holiday, celebrating Canada Day can be a cause of friction in the province of Quebec, where the holiday is overshadowed by Quebec's National Holiday, on June 24.

The nature of the event has also been met with criticism outside of Quebec, such as that given by Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren, who said in 2007: " The Canada of the government-funded paper flag-waving and painted faces — the ' new ' Canada that is celebrated each year on what is now called ' Canada Day '— has nothing controversially Canadian about it.

Its headquarters is located in the Central Building ( Édifice central ) of Les Terrasses de la Chaudière in Gatineau, Quebec.

This is particularly the case in eastern Canada apart from Quebec which is French speaking.

English maps rarely show the French names outside of Quebec, which itself is spelled Québec in French.

Acadians eventually built small settlements throughout what is today mainland Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as well as Île-Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ), Île-Royale ( Cape Breton Island ), and other shorelines of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec.

The Canadian Senate is structured along regional lines, giving an equal number of seats ( 24 ) to the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, and western Canada, in addition to the later entry of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the three territories.

The general formula is set out in section 38 ( 1 ), known as the " 7 / 50 formula ", requires: ( a ) assent from both the House of Commons and the Senate ; ( b ) the approval of two-thirds of the provincial legislatures ( at least seven provinces ) representing at least 50 % of the population ( effectively, this would include at least Quebec or Ontario, as they are the most populous provinces ).

* 1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days.

* 1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.

Jose Mailhot, a Quebec anthropologist who speaks Montagnais, however, published a paper in 1978 which suggested that the meaning is " people who speak a different language ".

In Quebec, Canada and in France there is a French movement with the founder Olivier Manitara and The Essene Spirit.

This governmental institution has nonetheless published many dictionaries and terminological guidelines since the 1960s, effectively allowing many canadianismes or more often québécismes ( French words local to Canada or Quebec ) that describe specifically North American realities.

The perceived failure of Canada to establish the equality of the English and French languages within governmental institutions is one of main reasons for the rise of the Quebec secessionist movement.

She later publicly expressed on 22 and 23 October 1987 her personal support for the Meech Lake Accord, which attempted to bring Quebec governmental support to the patriated constitution by introducing further amendments, and she received criticism from opponents of the accord, which failed to attract the unanimous support from all federal and provincial legislators required for it to pass.

The Lieutenant Governor of Quebec is vested with a number of governmental duties, though, unlike all other Canadian provinces, and while he or she does remain one of the two parts of the legislature, the viceroy in Quebec does not read the Throne Speech, a session of the National Assembly instead beginning with the Opening Speech by the premier.

* Office québécois de la langue française, a governmental institution in Quebec

The agreement covered economic development and property issues in northern Quebec, as well as establishing a number of cultural, social and governmental institutions for Aboriginals who are members of the communities involved in the treaties.

Such an institution was part of the list of 46 vows formulated by the Second Congress on the French Language in Canada held in Quebec City in 1937.

The current Dawson College was the first English-language institution in the Quebec network of CEGEPs when it opened its doors to 1, 200 students in the fall of 1969.

Students wishing to continue their university education outside Quebec must take one year of courses to fulfill the requirements of the institution to which they are applying.

These are somewhat higher than other Quebec law faculties, but lower than virtually every other comparable institution in Canada and the United States.

In the province of Quebec, an Associate degree is equivalent to a college diploma, which is delivered by a college-level institution.

McMaster was controlled by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec until it became a privately chartered, publicly funded non-denominational institution in 1957.

The new university, housed in McMaster Hall in Toronto, was sponsored by the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec as a sectarian undergraduate institution for its clergy and adherents.

A first in North America, the Commission d ' accès à l ' information du Québec ( Quebec Commission on Access to Information ) is an institution created in 1982 to administer the Quebec legislative framework of access to information and protection of privacy.

Independent from the government, this institution is responsible for the administration of the Quebec electoral system.

Located in Quebec, Canada, the College is a public English-language educational institution which is composed of administrative offices in Sherbrooke and three campuses: Champlain College Lennoxville in the Lennoxville borough of Sherbrooke, Champlain College Saint-Lambert in Saint-Lambert on Montreal's South Shore, and Champlain College St. Lawrence in the Quebec City area.

* March 8-The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, an institution in Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec Sovereignism, is founded.

The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society ( French: Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste ) is an institution in Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec Sovereignism.

The school was founded in 1908 by the Congregation of sisters as the bilingual Notre Dame Ladies College, the first institution of higher learning for English-speaking Catholic women in Quebec.

Choquette was born in Montreal, Quebec, and studied at the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Academy and Collège Stanislas in Montreal, a Roman Catholic private school and the most elite institution of its kind in Quebec.

The credit union, or " people's bank " (" la caisse populaire ") was a financial institution pioneered in Quebec, by Quebecers who had difficulty obtaining credit from banks controlled by anglophone Canadians.