National Assembly of Quebec

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The National Assembly of Québec (French: Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec, Canada. It operates in a fashion similar to that of other British-style parliamentary systems. Since the abolition in 1968 of the Legislative Council (French: Conseil législatif), hitherto the upper house of the Quebec Parliament, the lower house known as National Assembly of Quebec has had exclusive power to enact laws in the provincial jurisdictions defined in the Constitution of Canada. The current President of the National Assembly of Quebec is Liberal Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Michel Bissonnet.

Table of contents

1 History
2 Parliament Building
3 Elections
4 Current members

4.1 Member list

5 Proceedings
6 See also
7 External links

History

The Legislative Assembly was created in Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791. It was abolished from 1841 to 1867 under the 1840 Act of Union which merged Upper Canada and Lower Canada into a single colony named the Province of Canada. The 1867 British North America Act, which created the Canadian confederation, split the Province of Canada into the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was thus restored as the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec.

The original Quebec legislature was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly.

In 1968, Bill 90 was passed by the government of Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand, abolishing the Legislative Council and renaming the Legislative Assembly the "National Assembly". Before 1968, there had been various unsuccessful attempts at abolishing the Legislative Council, which was analogous to the Senate of Canada.

In 1978, television cameras were brought in for the first time to televise parliamentary debates. The colour of the walls was changed to suit the needs of television and the salon vert (green hall) became the salon bleu (blue hall).

Parliament Building

Built in Quebec City between 1877 and 1886, the present Hôtel du Parlement (Parliament Building) was designed by architect Eugène-Étienne Taché. It is a unique construction in North America, with a Second Empire style of architecture. Its façade features a pantheon representing important events and people in the history of Quebec.

Elections

General elections are held at least every five years. Any person holding a Canadian citizenship and who has resided in Quebec for at least six months qualifies to have his or her name entered on the electoral list.

Quebec's territory is divided into 125 electoral districts (ridings). In each electoral division, the candidate who receives the most votes is elected and becomes a Member of the National Assembly (MNA). This is known as the first-past-the-post voting system.

Normally, the leader of the political party with the largest number of elected candidates is asked by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec to form the government as Premier, or Prime Minister. (In French, both titles are rendered as Premier Ministre.).

Current members

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Official seating plan of the Quebec National Assembly.

At the present, the 125 seats of the National Assembly are distributed as follows:

Affiliation		Members	Female Members
	Parti libéral du Québec	72	22
	Parti Québécois	45	16
	Action démocratique du Québec	5	1
	Independent	1	0
	Vacant	2	-
Total		125	38
Government Majority		9

Libéral member Daniel Bouchard (Megantic-Compton) is sitting as an independent while being under an inquiry relating to a former job.
Libéral member Russell Williams (Nelligan) resigned on March 9, 2004. Yolande James (PLQ) won the by-election with 52.6% of the vote.
Libéral member Marc Bellemare (Vanier) resigned on April 28, 2004. Sylvain Légaré (ADQ) won the by-election with 46.8% of the vote.
Libéral member Christos Sirros (Laurier-Dorion) resigned on June 17, 2004. Elsie Lefebvre (PQ) won the by-election with 46.1% of the vote.
Parti Québécois member André Boisclair (Gouin) resigned on August 17, 2004. Nicolas Girard (PQ) won the by-election with 57.8% of the vote.

By-elections were held in these four districts on September 20, 2004.

Libéral member Yves Séguin (Outremont) resigned on May 26, 2005.
Leader of the Opposition and Former Premier Bernard Landry (Verchères) resigned on June 6, 2005.

Member list

Cabinet Ministers are in Bold, Leaders are in Italics and the President of the National Assembly has a Dagger next to his name.

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	Maxime Arsenau	Parti Québécois	Îles-de-la-Madeleine
	Vincent Auclair	Libéral	Vimont
	Michel Audet	Libéral	Laporte
	Claude Bachand	Libéral	Arthabaska
	Line Beauchamp	Libéral	Bourassa-Sauvé
	Denise Beaudoin	Parti Québécois	Mirabel
	Claude Béchard	Libéral	Kamouraska-Témiscouata
	Stéphane Bédard	Parti Québécois	Chicoutimi
	Lawrence S. Bergman	Libéral	D'Arcy-McGee
	Daniel Bernard	Libéral	Rouyn-Noranda—Témiscamingue
	Raymond Bernier	Libéral	Montmorency
	Rosaire Bertrand	Parti Québécois	Charlevoix
	Michel Bissonnet†	Libéral	Jeanne-Mance—Viger
	Karl Blackburn	Libéral	Roberval
	Yvan Bordeleau	Libéral	Acadie
	Camil Bouchard	Parti Québécois	Vachon
	Daniel Bouchard	Independent	Mégantic-Compton
	Claude Boucher	Parti Québécois	Johnson
	André Boulerice	Parti Québécois	Sainte-Marie—Saint-Jacques
	Julie Boulet	Libéral	Laviolette
	Alexandre Bourdeau	Parti Québécois	Berthier
	Bernard Brodeur	Libéral	Shefford
	Jocelyne Caron	Parti Québécois	Terrebonne
	Jacques Chagnon	Libéral	Westmount—Saint-Louis
	Noëlla Champagne	Parti Québécois	Champlain
	Jean-Pierre Charbonneau	Parti Québécois	Borduas
	*Jean Charest*	Libéral	Sherbrooke
	Nancy Charest	Libéral	Matane
	Solange Charest	Parti Québécois	Rimouski
	Lucie Charlebois	Libéral	Soulanges
	André Chenail	Libéral	Huntingdon
	Roch Cholette	Libéral	Hull
	Maurice Clermont	Libéral	Mille-Îles
	Russell Copeman	Libéral	Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
	Pierre Corbeil	Libéral	Abitibi-Est
	Jacques Côté	Parti Québécois	Dubuc
	Philippe Couillard	Libéral	Mont-Royal
	Michelle Courchesne	Libéral	Fabre
	Claude Cousineau	Parti Québécois	Bertrand
	William Cusano	Libéral	Viau
	Margaret F. Delisle	Libéral	Jean-Talon
	Pierre Descoteaux	Libéral	Groulx
	Serge Deslières	Parti Québécois	Beauharnois
	Michel Després	Libéral	Jean-Lesage
	Léandre Dion	Parti Québécois	Saint-Hyacinthe
Rita Dionne-Marsoliar	Parti Québécois	Rosemont
Danielle Doyer	Parti Québécois	Matapédia
Jean Dubuc	Libéral	La Prairie
Marjolain Dufour	Parti Québécois	René-Lévesque
Mario Dumont	ADQ	Rivière-du-Loup
Jacques P. Dupuis	Libéral	Saint-Laurent
Jean-Marc Fournier	Libéral	Châteauguay
André Gabais	Libéral	Trois-Riviéres
Monique Gagnon-Tremblay	Libéral	Saint-François
Francine Gaudet	Libéral	Maskinongé
Françoise Gauthier	Libéral	Jonquière
Henri-François Gautrin	Libéral	Verdun
François Gendron	Parti Québécois	Abitibi-Ouest
Nicolas Girard	Parti Québécois	Gouin
Janvier Grondin	ADQ	Beauce-Nord
Sam Hamad	Libéral	Louis-Hébert
France Hamel	Libéral	La Peltrie
Louise Harel	Parti Québécois	Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Fatima Houda-Pepin	Libéral	La Pinière
Yolande James	Libéral	Nelligan
Monique Jérôme-Forget	Libéral	Marguerite-Bourgeoys
Normand Jutras	Parti Québécois	Drummond
Geoffrey Kelley	Libéral	Jacques-Cartier
Réjean Lafrenière	Libéral	Gatineau
Michèle Lamquin-Éthier	Libéral	Crémazie
Diane Leblanc	Libéral	Beauce-Sud
Charlotte L'Écuyer	Libéral	Pontiac
Elsie Lefebvre	Parti Québécois	Laurier-Dorion
Sylvain Légaré	ADQ	Vanier
Diane Legault	Libéral	Chambly
François Legault	Parti Québécois	Rousseau
Richard Legendre	Parti Québécois	Blainville
Nicole Léger	Parti Québécois	Pointe-aux-Trembles
Guy Lelièvre	Parti Québécois	Gaspé
Diane Lemieux	Parti Québécois	Bourget
Laurent Lessard	Libéral	Frontenac
Michel Létourneau	Parti Québécois	Ungava
Nicole Loiselle	Libéral	Saint-Henri—Sainte-Anne
Norman MacMillan	Libéral	Papineau
Agnès Maltais	Parti Québécois	Taschereau
Yvon Marcoux	Libéral	Vaudreuil
Pauline Marois	Parti Québécois	Taillon
Pierre Marsan	Libéral	Robert-Baldwin
Éric R. Mercier	Libéral	Charlesbourg
Pierre Moreau	Libéral	Marguerite-D'Youville
Michel Morin	Parti Québécois	Nicolet-Yamaska
Norbert Monrin	Libéral	Montmagny-L'Islet
Thomas J. Mulcair	Libéral	Chomedey
Nathalie Normandeau	Libéral	Bonaventure
François Ouimet	Libéral	Marquette
Sylvain Pagé	Parti Québécois	Labelle
Lucie Papineau	Parti Québécois	Prévost
Alain Paquet	Libéral	Laval-des-Rapides
Jean-Pierre Paquin	Libéral	Saint-Jean
Pierre Paradis	Libéral	Brome-Missisquoi
Benoît Pelletier	Libéral	Chapleau
Sarah Perreault	Libéral	Chauveau
Marc Picard	ADQ	Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
Claude Pinard	Parti Québécois	Saint-Maurice
Pierre Reid	Libéral	Orford
Lorraine Richard	Parti Québécois	Duplessis
Jean Rioux	Libéral	Iberville
Hélène Robert	Parti Québécois	Deux-Montagnes
Sylvie Roy	ADQ	Lotbinière
Sylvain Simard	Parti Québécois	Richelieu
Jean-Pierre Soucy	Libéral	Portneuf
Jean-Claude St-André	Parti Québécois	L'Assomption
Carole Théberge	Libéral	Lévis
Lise Thériault	Libéral	Anjou
Luc Thériault	Parti Québécois	Masson
Tony Tomassi	Libéral	LaFontaine
Stéphan Tremblay	Parti Québécois	Lac-Saint-Jean
Daniel Turp	Parti Québécois	Mercier
Yvon Vallières	Libéral	Richmond
Jonathan Valois	Parti Québécois	Joliette
Cécile Vermette	Parti Québécois	Marie-Victorin
Dominique Vien	Libéral	Bellechasse
David Whissell	Libéral	Argenteuil

Proceedings

One of the Members of the National Assembly is chosen as the President of the Assembly (a post called Speaker in most other Westminster System assemblies) by the Premier with the support of the Leader of the Opposition. The President of the Assembly is the arbiter of the parliamentary debates between the members of the government and the members of the Opposition. In order for a member to address a member of the other side, he or she has to speak through the President of the Assembly. The President is usually a member of the governing party, although there is no requirement for this.

External links

National Assembly of Quebec website (in French and English)
National Assembly historical data (in French)
Diagram of the positions in the Assembly (in French)
Data about the current president of the Assembly

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