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Rene Levesque [Personal Facts]

- Born in Campbellton NB (24-Aug-1922) Died in Montreal (01-Nov-1987)-
Occupations: Journalist, Premier of Quebec 1976-1985

- Liason Officer and European war correspondent for the American armed
forces in WWII, joined Radio-Canada international in 1946 and became head
of the radio-television news service in 1952

- Hosted TV series "Point de Mire" and became one of Quebec's most
influential TV commentators

- Joined Quebec Liberal Party in 1959 and was minister of water resources
and public works in 1960-1961, minister of natural resources 1961-66, and
finally minister of family and social welfare

- He was responsible for that goverment's decision to nationalize private
electric utilities and for its efforts at cleaning up political mores

- Resigned in 1968 to find the Parti Quebecois whose main objectives became
Quebec sovereignty and the creation of a new form of association with
Canada

- PQ won 23.2% of the vote in 1970 elections, In 1973 became official
opposition

- On November 15th, 1976, Levesque's party defeated Bourassa's government
and won a majority of 71 seats

- PQ promised a referendum on Sovereignty-Association (dismayed Canada)

- During first term, new government passed several measures concerning
automobile insurance, rezoning of agricultural land and the abolition of
secret electoral funding

- Bill 101 formalized the status of French as official language of Quebec

- On May 20th, 1980, referendum took place with opposition from Liberal
leader Claude Ryan and federal Cabinet minister Jean Chretien (with support
from PM Trudeau)

- Proposal won only 40% of vote but PQ was relected in 1981

- PQ suffered setback with patriation of Constitution and lost vast
popularity due to attempts of reducing public spending to solve its
financial problems (1982, 1983)

- In November 1984, Levesque announced his intentions of not fighting the
next election on the issue of independance while maintaining
sovereignty-association as party's offical raison d'etre

- Many ministers resigned in protest, but Levesque's leadership reaffirmed
in 1985 convention

- In June of 1985, he resigned and resumed broadcasting and journalism
career er and European war correspondent for the American armed forces in
