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46-765: Christian Nationalist Party or Christian National Party may refer to: Christian Nationalist Party, English translation of Parti nationaliste chrétien , Quebec, Canada, 1960s Christian Nationalist Party, the political wing of the Christian Nationalist Crusade , U.S., 1940s–50s Philippine Christian Nationalist Party, a political party in the Philippines Christian National Party (Colombia) , current Christian National Party (Hungary) , 1920s Constitution Party (United States, 1952) , or Christian Nationalist Party,

92-747: A far-right-wing party that drafted Douglas MacArthur as presidential candidate See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Christian National Party All pages with titles containing Christian Nationalist Party Christian National Opposition Party , Hungary, 1920s Christian National Union Party , Hungary, 1920s Christian National Union , Poland, 1989–2010 Christian National Union (Latvia) , 1920s–1930s Christian-National Peasants' and Farmers' Party , Weimar Germany 1920s–1930s Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party , Romania, founded 1989 National Christian Party , Romania, 1935–1938 National Democratic Christian Party , Romania, 1990–2014 Topics referred to by

138-651: A few months later. Michel Le Moignan , the MNA for the district of Gaspé , took over as interim leader. This left the once-mighty party with only five seats. On January 9, 1981, federal Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Roch LaSalle was acclaimed leader of the Union Nationale. In the April 1981 provincial election , the party lost all of its seats, and would never elect another MNA. La Salle resigned as leader and returned to federal politics—winning

184-508: A government that was increasingly seen as tired and unfocused, despite Sauvé's efforts at reform. He called an election in 1960 , almost a year before it was due. The Union Nationale went into the contest under its third leader in less than a year, and narrowly lost to Jean Lesage 's Liberals. The new government implemented a vast program of social changes, which is now known as the Quiet Revolution . Daniel Johnson, Sr. became

230-643: A majority of the province's seats in the 1958 federal election —something that the Tories hadn't done in over 60 years. Duplessis died in 1959 and was succeeded by his Minister of Social Welfare, Paul Sauvé . Well aware that he faced, at most, two years before the next election, Sauvé saw the need to modernize one of the most conservative governments in Canada, and initiated a program of reform called "100 Days of Change." However, he also died after only three months in office. Labour Minister Antonio Barrette took over

276-544: A minister in the Johnson government, as interim party leader on October 28, 1985. Earlier, Léveillé had announced the formation of his own Parti du progrès , which he subsequently abandoned. Léveillé led the party into the December 2, 1985, general election . However, the party ran only 19 candidates, none of whom came close to being elected. It only won 0.23% of the popular vote, its worst showing ever. This would prove to be

322-576: A minor political party which garners less than 1% of the popular vote, was founded in 2000 and emulates the Union Nationale by combining moderate Quebec nationalism with Christian social conservatism. It changed its name in 2012 to the Parti unité nationale . The party was re-registered in 2020 by Jonathan Blanchette who ran as the party's only candidate in the 2022 Quebec general election , receiving 159 votes in Abitibi-Ouest . The new Union Nationale

368-482: A number of small conservative and créditiste parties were created and were in competition with the Union Nationale for the few thousands of votes that were still up for grabs. Those parties included André Asselin's Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec , Jacques E. Tardif's Unité Québec and Jean-Paul Poulin's Parti crédit social uni . The situation accelerated the demise of the Union Nationale. On June 19, 1989, Quebec chief electoral officer Pierre F. Côté withdrew

414-532: A provincial income tax equal to 15 per cent of the federal income tax, claimed that the Godbout government failed to impose the strict respect for the principles established in the British North America Act of 1867 . The Liberals won a plurality of the vote in the 1944 election , finishing one point ahead of the Union Nationale. However, since rural areas were significantly overrepresented,

460-515: A tour of Quebec, where he made speeches in rural areas to encourage the people to resist reforms in education. He also started a petition against these reforms, which received 100,000 signatures from "worried parents". Following the adoption of the reforms, Tremblay concluded that the Union nationale government had betrayed their constituents. According to Tremblay's analysis, Daniel Johnson had usurped power by applying policies so similar to those of

506-692: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Parti nationaliste chr%C3%A9tien The PNC was founded in 1967 as an extension of the Front de défense des écoles confessionnelles (FDÉC) and the Phalange , a far right-wing secret society. In 1967, the FDÉC organized a campaign against Part V of the Parent Report and the creation of Polyvalentes and CÉGEPs . As part of this campaign, Léo Tremblay made

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552-488: The 1948 election . The Liberals were decimated; nearly all of their 14 MNAs were from Montreal 's West Island . Godbout himself lost his own seat, leaving the Liberals without a full-time leader in the legislature. On the debit side, Duplessis' relations with labour in general and trade unions in particular were difficult and led to a number of strikes. The government was also accused of being too strongly aligned with

598-671: The Legislative Council of Quebec and completed the dam and the generating station of Manic-5 in 1968 and laid the groundwork for the public health insurance plan that would later be implemented by the Liberal government of Robert Bourassa . The official visit of French President Charles de Gaulle in Canada in 1967 and Daniel Johnson, Sr.'s sudden death in 1968 left the party divided between its nationalist wing and members who clearly positioned themselves as federalists . The latter prevailed when Jean-Jacques Bertrand won

644-733: The National Union , especially when it was still an electoral force, by both the media and, at times, the party. The party started when the Action libérale nationale , a group of dissidents from the Quebec Liberal Party , formed a loose coalition with the Conservative Party of Quebec . In the 1935 Quebec election , the two parties agreed to run only one candidate of either party in each riding. The Action libérale nationale (ALN) elected 26 out of 57 candidates and

690-555: The Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms . It was the first time in Quebec that a party had lost its official status as a result of its debts. Le Brun resurrected the Union Nationale under the name Parti Renaissance on June 26, 1992. It ran candidates in two by-elections in 1993, but the party did not field any eligible candidates in the 1994 election and lost its registration on August 27, 1994. Although another attempt

736-494: The Quebec Liberal Party and the Union Nationale , for conducting a policy that "destroyed Quebecois traditions" and that "does not care about the people nor parliament." The PNC also denounces the Quiet Revolution by asserting that it made the people slaves of its own servants, the technocrats. The party says that these technocrats are removing the hierarchies and the real values of Quebecers and that its reform pushed

782-628: The Catholic clergy. Indeed, many priests openly supported the Duplessis government and attacked the Liberals by using the slogan Le ciel est bleu, l'enfer est rouge (Heaven is blue, hell is red)--a reference to the primary colours of both parties (blue for the UN, red for the Liberals). The government was also accused of discrimination against Jehovah's Witnesses , receiving insufficient royalties for

828-689: The Conservatives won 16 seats out of 33 districts. Conservative leader Maurice Duplessis became Leader of the Opposition . He soon rose to prominence as he used the Standing Committee on Public Accounts to expose the corrupt practices of the Liberal government of Alexandre Taschereau and force it to call an early election. Capitalizing on his success, Duplessis called a caucus meeting at Sherbrooke 's Magog Hotel and received

874-557: The Liberals won a plurality of the vote in the 1966 election , the Union Nationale eked out a narrow majority in part because rural areas were significantly overrepresented. Among the newly elected MLAs, there were three former federal politicians: Rémi Paul , Jean-Noël Tremblay and Clément Vincent . Johnson set a slower pace, but sustained many reforms initiated by the Liberals. His administration established CEGEPs ( Collèges d'enseignement général et professionnel , or 'College of General and Vocational Education') in 1967, abolished

920-474: The Liberals. The pledge was devastating to the Union Nationale, which lost the 1939 election . While serving in His Majesty's Loyal Opposition , the party opposed Women's suffrage which was enacted by the government of Adélard Godbout in 1940. The Union Nationale enjoyed a surge after a majority of Canadian voters allowed the federal government to pass conscription. Duplessis, who would later create

966-450: The Quebec clergy for having "abandoned its responsibilities", and favored the deconfessionalisation. After this reform, the PNC planned to proceed to the independence of Quebec, as leader Léo Tremblay was deeply nationalist. The PNC praises Maurice Duplessis , and considers that the death of Duplessis was a disaster for the Union Nationale and for Quebec. The PNC denounces "the old parties",

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1012-458: The Union Nationale name. In May 1976, business owner Rodrigue Biron , a former card-carrying Liberal supporter who had no experience in provincial politics, was chosen as party leader. Bellemare tried to flush out potential candidates for the leadership of the UN (such as former Liberal cabinet minister Jérôme Choquette ) by calling a leadership convention for May 1976, but was unsuccessful. His impulsive policy statements and poor relations with

1058-481: The Union Nationale won 48 seats to the Liberals' 37, allowing Duplessis to return as premier. World War II prosperity kept unemployment low. Machine politics , fiscal conservatism and a program of rural electrification consolidated the dominance of the Union Nationale over the province. The Duplessis government adopted the current flag of Quebec to replace the Union Jack . It won a landslide victory in

1104-644: The by-election created by his resignation from parliament a few months earlier. In 1982, lawyer Jean-Marc Beliveau, who had been appointed interim leader by the party executive following Lasalle's resignation, was elected Union Nationale leader by acclamation at what would be the party's final leadership convention. The party was $ 150,000 in debt, but appeared poised to return to the National Assembly when one public opinion poll in October 1984 showed it with 18% public support, its best showing since 1976, in

1150-405: The extraction the province's natural resources and allowing election fraud for its own benefit. Nonetheless, the Union Nationale was re-elected in the 1952 election with a reduced majority, and in the 1956 election . Moreover, its influence was made obvious when its organization helped defeat Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau in 1957 and helped John Diefenbaker 's Progressive Conservative 's win

1196-440: The final general election in which the Union Nationale fielded candidates. By the 1980s, the Union Nationale no longer could rely on a significant get-out-the-vote organization or attract any media attention. The electorate was increasingly polarized over the constitutional issue, with conservative-leaning voters split between either the federalist Liberals or the sovereigntist Parti Québécois in provincial elections. Furthermore,

1242-579: The ideas described in Leo Tremblay's first book published a few years prior. This program states that a PNc government would: The main point of the PNC program is that schools and hospitals in Quebec should be run by the Quebec clergy again. At that time, they had only been secularized at the beginning of that decade. The PNC saw this as a way to bring order back in Quebec society, which they considered to be controlled by " atheist , socialist and secularist technocrats ". The party also criticizes

1288-525: The last Union Nationale members elected to the legislature) announced the formation of a new Conservative Party of Quebec . Fontaine had asked Éric Caire of the ADQ to join the party and become its leader, with a view to attract disaffected ADQ supporters, but this did not materialize and Caire now sits as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec . The Parti démocratie chrétienne du Québec,

1334-437: The leader of the Union Nationale in 1961. He was chosen by party delegates rather than by his colleagues only. The party was heavily defeated in the 1962 election , but it held a convention to discuss its platform in 1965 and opened its structures to card-carrying supporters. Johnson published a book called Égalité ou indépendance (Equality or independence), which appealed to a number of nationalist voters. Even though

1380-738: The legislature passed the Act to protect the Province Against Communistic Propaganda , better known as the Padlock Law , in 1937, which provided evidence of Duplessis's interest in appearing tough on communism . Duplessis called an election shortly after Canada declared war against Germany . Federal Cabinet Member Ernest Lapointe , the Quebec lieutenant of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King , promised that no one would face conscription if voters supported

1426-415: The old guard of the party led to resignations of party officials, including Jacques Tétreault , who had been his most serious opponent for the party leadership. In September 1976, Biron abandoned a plan to unite his party with Choquette's Parti National Populaire , despite prior efforts made by the two groups. The Union Nationale made a modest recovery in the 1976 election , winning 11 seats and 18.2% of

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1472-526: The party leadership over Jean-Guy Cardinal , but the controversy over a language legislation known as Bill 63 prompted a number of nationalist supporters, and legislators such as Antonio Flamand and Jérôme Proulx to join the Parti Québécois . In addition, the Union Nationale lost a portion of its conservative base, including MNA Gaston Tremblay , to the Ralliement créditiste . Bertrand

1518-580: The party's registration after the party was found to be nearly $ 350,000 in debt. As a result of this decision, it was no longer able to receive contributions or make expenditures. The next day, the interim leader of the party, Michel Le Brun, told a reporter that he would contest the decision before the Quebec Superior Court , arguing that the decision was unfair, and a violation of both the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and

1564-504: The party, while Rouville Beaudry and Grégoire Bélanger left politics. The government adopted a farm credit policy in 1936, which was popular in rural areas where the party's most loyal base of supporters lived, but for the most part the administration of Maurice Duplessis protected the status quo. For instance, it gave the Catholic clergy government money to provide public education , health care and other social services. Also,

1610-473: The popular vote. While it came up just short of official party status in the legislature, the party appeared to be back from the brink. However, this did not last. From 1978 to 1980, five MNAs either crossed the floor , moved to federal politics or retired. The party bottomed out in 1980, when Biron resigned as leader and left the party to sit as an independent, and then joined the Parti Québécois

1656-764: The previous government while having been elected by his opposition to these same policies during the election campaign and a desire of Quebecers to return to the policy of Maurice Duplessis . Because the National Union had changed so much from their old self, Léo Tremblay decided to found a new political party, the Parti Nationaliste Chrétien . The ideology of the Parti Nationaliste Chrétien can be summarized as follows: Order and theocracy, then independence. The PNC published an electoral program describing its ideology and its political positions on February 7, 1969. This manifesto mostly restates

1702-495: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Christian Nationalist Party . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christian_Nationalist_Party&oldid=1134330846 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1748-610: The superiority of the French-Canadian "race" and the evils of the Jewish community in Quebec . These ideas are not included in the 1969 manifesto, where the concept of " race " is associated with the concept of the " Fatherland ". Parti nationaliste chrétien, le Parti nationaliste chrétien , Québec, 1969, 63 p. Union Nationale (Quebec) Provincial Provincial Politics Economy The Union nationale ( French pronunciation: [ynjɔ̃ nɑsjɔnal] )

1794-614: The support of 15 Conservatives and 22 ALN members in favour of a merger of the two parties under his leadership under the name Union nationale . The new party had no formal ties to the federal Conservatives . It ran candidates in every district and won a majority of the seats in the 1936 election . Even though Duplessis had run on ideas inspired from the ALN platform, he soon alienated the more progressive members of his caucus. René Chaloult , Oscar Drouin , Joseph-Ernest Grégoire , Philippe Hamel , François Leduc and Adolphe Marcoux quit

1840-682: The wake of the 1984 federal election in which the Progressive Conservatives won Quebec and the country in a landslide. However, Béliveau contested a June 3, 1985 by-election in Trois-Rivières and was defeated, finishing third with 16% of the vote. He tried to merge the UN with the fledgling Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec , but negotiations came to nothing. In September, after a group of veteran party members demanded his immediate resignation, Beliveau stepped down as leader. The party appointed André Léveillé ,

1886-547: The youth to despair, drugs and suicide . Satanic propaganda orchestrated by the state television and foreign publications push the Quebec people to genocide. The NCP also laments the decline of the birth rate in Quebec, and predicts that this will eventually make the Quebecers people extinct. Therefore, immediate steps must be taken to restore order, peace and security in Quebec, and reconcile God with his people . Léo Tremblay's first book contained long sections on

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1932-527: Was a conservative and nationalist provincial political party in Quebec , Canada , that identified with Québécois autonomism . It was created during the Great Depression and held power in Quebec from 1936 to 1939, and from 1944 to 1960 and from 1966 to 1970. The party was founded by Maurice Duplessis , who led it until his death in 1959. The party was often referred to in English as

1978-473: Was founded in opposition to health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada . The media claimed that the Parti Québécois was going through a phase of Union-Nationalization ( French : unionnationalisation ) when, in the mid-1980s, it chose Pierre-Marc Johnson as its leader and put the issue of Quebec sovereignty on the back burner. Source: [1] Compared to the 1935 election in which

2024-548: Was made to revive the Union Nationale in 1998, it failed when the party failed to nominate enough candidates to be registered. The Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) was established about at the same time and made a significant breakthrough in the districts that were once considered the base of the Union Nationale's support. This has continued with Coalition Avenir Québec , which has sometimes drawn comparisons with Union Nationale. In 2009, former Union Nationale MNAs Serge Fontaine and Bertrand Goulet (both of whom had been among

2070-492: Was not enough to halt the party's decline, and at the 1973 election , it was shut out of the legislature for the first time. In 1974, former UN Cabinet Member and interim leader Maurice Bellemare won a by-election , and the party again was represented in the National Assembly . On May 31, 1975, the party merged with the tiny Parti présidentiel , a group of Créditiste dissidents led by Yvon Brochu , and kept

2116-560: Was unable to inspire voters and the party seemed to have lost touch with Quebec society. In the 1970 election , the Union Nationale was resoundingly defeated, winning only 17 seats. While it finished third in the popular vote behind the PQ, it still managed to become the Official Opposition. Gabriel Loubier took over as leader and the party became known as Unité Québec from October 25, 1971 to January 14, 1973. The name change

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