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March 1, 1903: Founding assembly of the Ligue nationaliste canadienne (Canadian Nationalist League), under the presidency of Olivar Asselin.
March 1, 1834: Augustin-Norbert Morin (PAT), MHA for Bellechasse, is delegated by the House of Assembly in order to go to give to the Agent from Lower Canada to London, Denis-Benjamin-Viger, the Quatre-vingt-douze Résolutions (Ninety Two Resolutions) adopted on February 21 of the same year.
March 2, 1998: Daniel Johnson (fils) (LIB), MNA for Vaudreuil, Leader of the Parti libéral du Québec and Leader of the Official Opposition, announces that he will quit political life. He shall remain in office until the appointment of a successor.
March 2, 1983: The Parti nationaliste humain du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
March 2, 1914: Charles Ramsay Devlin (LIB), MLA for Témiscamingue and Minister of Colonization, dies in office.
March 2, 1909: Following the defeat of the Leader of the Parti conservateur, Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, at the general election of June 8, 1908, the parliamentary group of the Parti conservateur to the Legislative Assembly elects Joseph-Matthias Tellier (CON), MLA for Joliette, as Leader of the Party and Leader of the official Opposition.
March 2, 1878: Dismissal of the Prime Minister of Quebec, Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville (CON) by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Luc Letellier de Saint-Just.
March 3, 1997: Robert Therrien (ind.), MNA for Bertrand, is found guilty by the courts of electoral fraud during the General Election of September 12, 1994. His election is cancelled and the Bertrand seat becomes vacant.
March 3, 1980: Rodrigue Biron (UN), MNA for Lotbinière, resigns as Leader of the Union nationale in order to sit as independent MNA. He shall join the Parti québécois a few months later. Michel Lemoignan (UN), MNA for Gaspé, is appointed as Parliamentary Leader.
March 3, 1969: By-election in Dorion; Mario Beaulieu (UN) is elected.
March 3, 1880: By-election in Rimouski; Joseph Parent (LIB) is elected.
March 3, 1876: By-election in Deux-Montagnes; Charles Laplante dit Champagne (CON) is elected.
March 3, 1873: By-election in Québec Est; C.-A.-Pantaléon Pelletier (LIB) is elected.
March 4, 1970: Guy Lechasseur (LIB), MNA for Verchères, resigns as member of the National Assembly following his appointment as judge.
March 4, 1878: Joseph Dumont (LIB), MLA for Kamouraska, is found guilty by the Superior Court of electoral fraud during the By-Election held on March 19, 1877. His election is cancelled and the Kamouraska seat becomes vacant.
March 5, 2001: Jacques Léonard (PQ), MNA for Labelle and Chairman of the Treasury Board, and Jean-Pierre Jolivet (PQ), MNA for Laviolette and minister of Regions, announce that they will quit political life.
March 5, 1994: Founding Convention of the Action démocratique du Québec. Jean Allaire is elected as Leader of the Party.
March 5, 1984: Jacques-Yvan Morin (PQ), MNA for Sauvé and Minister of Intergovernmentale Affairs, resigns as minister and Member of the National Assemblyso causing a ministerial reshuffle in René Lévesque's cabinet (PQ).
March 5, 1954: The assent is given to an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec increasing the number of constituencies from 91 to 92.
March 5, 1910: By-elections in Argenteuil and Drummond; John Hay (LIB) and Louis-Jules Allard (LIB) are elected.
March 6, 2006: Nicole Léger (PQ), MNA for Pointe-aux-Trembles and former Minister, announces her dismissal as Member of the National Assembly, which will come into effect on June 1, 2006.
March 6, 1989: Denis Perron (PQ), MNA for Duplessis, announces that he leaves the parliamentary group of the Parti québécois in order to sit as independent MNA following charges of fraud and breach of trust. He hill discharged in May 1989 and will reintegrate the parliamentary group of the Parti québécois.
March 6, 1944: Télesphore-Damien "T.-D." Bouchard (LIB), MLA for Saint-Hyacinthe and Minister of Roads, resigns as Minister and Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as federal Senator.
March 6, 1882: By-election in Pontiac; William Joseph Poupore (CON) is elected.
March 7, 2002: Deposit of the final report of the Commmission sur le déséquilibre fiscal (Commmission on fiscal imbalance), chaired by Yves Séguin. This report studies the nature, the width, the causes as well as the consequences of fiscal imbalance between the federal government and those of the provinces and proposes about twenty recommendations aiming at bringing transformations of scale to the intergovernmental financial relations within Canada. (more...)
March 7, 1997: (March 7-9) 27^th Members' Convention of the Parti libéral du Québec.
March 7, 1959: Pierre Bohémier (UN), MLA for Labelle, dies in office.
March 7, 1877: Pierre Fortin (CON), MLA for Gaspé, is found guilty by the courts of electoral fraud during the General Election of July 7, 1875. His election is cancelled and the Gaspé seat becomes vacant.
March 7, 1848: Implementation of the responsible government in the Province of Canada, claimed by Lower Canada since 1809.
March 8, 2001: Following the withdrawal of the former Leader of the Parti québécois, Lucien Bouchard, MNA for Jonquière, from political life, Bernard Landry (PQ), MNA for Verchères, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec. Bouchard as well as the ministers Jean-Pierre Jolivet (PQ), MNA for Laviolette, and Jacques Léonard (PQ), MNA for Labelle, resign officially as Members of the National Assembly the same day.
March 8, 1892: 8^th General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec:
- Parti conservateur (Louis-Olivier Taillon) and Independent Conservatives: 52 seats;
- Parti libéral (Félix-Gabriel Marchand): 21 seats.
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March 8, 1878: Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (LIB), MLA for Lotbinière, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec following the destitution of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville (CON) on March 2.
March 8, 1816: Issuing of the Writs of the 9^th General Election to the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, two years only after the previous General Election.
March 9, 2004: Russell Williams (LIB), MNA for Nelligan, resigns as Member of the National Assembly.
March 9, 1869: At the outcome of a meeting of Opposition MLAs at the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (LIB), MLA for Lotbinière, is elected as Leader of the Official Opposition.
March 10, 1991: (March 9-11) 25^th Members' Convention of the Parti libéral du Québec. The Party adopts the Rapport Allaire (Allaire Report), a constitutional platform proposing a massive decentralization of responsibilities and powers from Ottawa towards Quebec, for lack of which is proposed a referendum on the sovereignty of Quebec sorted with a confederate union (a new partnership) with the rest of Canada.
March 10, 1981: Jean Alfred (ind.), MNA for Papineau, reinstates the Parti québécois parliamentary group.
March 10, 1904: By-elections in Berthier, Maskinongé, Portneuf and Shefford; Joseph Lafontaine (LIB), Georges Lafontaine (CON), Damase-Épiphane Naud (CON) and Auguste Mathieu (LIB) are elected.
March 11, 1994: (March 11-13) 26^th Members' Convention of the Parti libéral du Québec.
March 11, 1909: Henri Bourassa (LNC), MLA for Montréal division No. 2 and St. Hyacinthe, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly for Montréal division No. 2. He had been elected in both ridings in the general election of June 1908.
March 11, 1848: Following a non-confidence vote against the Sherwood Cabinet (TORY) on March 3, formation of the La Fontaine-Baldwin Cabinet in the Province of Canada, led by Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (CF), MLA fot the cité de Montréal and Attorney General of Lower Canada, and Robert Baldwin (REF), MLA for North York and Attorney General of Upper Canada. The principle of the ministerial responsibility is finally recognized.
March 12, 2003: Issuing of the Writs of the 37^th General Election to the National Assembly of Quebec.
March 12, 2002: Louise Harel (PQ), MNA for Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, is elected as Speaker of the National Assembly. For the first time in Quebec's history, a woman reach this office.
March 12, 1903: Jules Tessier (LIB), MLA for Portneuf, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as federal Senator.
March 12, 1873: By-election in Terrebonne; Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (CON), sollicitor general in the Ouimet Cabinet, is elected by acclamation.
March 12, 1810: Issuing of the Writs of the 7^th General Election to the House of assembly of Lower Canada, which was dissolved by Governor Craig less than 4 months after the previous General Election.
March 13, 1966: Foundation of the Ralliement national (National Rallying; RN) by the merger of the Quebec wing of the Ralliement des créditistes (Rallying of the creditists) and the Regroupement national (National Regrouping).
March 13, 1874: By-election in Montcalm; Louis-Gustave Martin (CON) is elected.
March 14, 1984: Fernand Lalonde (LIB), MNA for Marguerite-Bourgeoys, resigns as Member of the National Assembly.
March 14, 1956: Omer Côté (UN), MLA for Montréal–Saint-Jacques and Secretary of the Province, resigns as Minister and Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as judge.
March 14, 1802: The House of Assembly of Lower Canada entrusts to its clerk, Samuel Phillips, to guard about 25 books, which constituted the library of the MHAs. This event marks the birth of the Library of the National Assembly, one of the oldest parliamentary libraries in the world.
March 15, 1996: Gérald Tremblay (LIB), MNA for Outremont, resigns as Member of the National Assembly.
March 15, 1920: Charles-Adolphe Stein (LIB), MLA for Kamouraska, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his decision to quit for federal politics.
March 15, 1848: Louis-Joseph Papineau, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada from 1815 to 1838 and leader of the Parti patriote (Patriotic Party), pronounces his first speech to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada since his exile following the Revolt of the Patriots in 1837-1838.
March 16, 2004: Daniel Bouchard (LIB), MNA for Mégantic-Compton, announces that he leaves the parliamentary group of the Parti libéral du Québec in order to sit as independent MNA.
March 16, 1979: Jean-Guy Cardinal (PQ), MNA for Prévost and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Quebec, dies in office.
March 16, 1972: Camil Samson (CS), MNA for Rouyn-Noranda and former Leader of the Ralliement créditiste, is expelled of the parliamentary group of the Ralliement créditiste to have disparaged some of his colleagues and not to have taken part in the meetings of the party. He shall sit as independent MNA until August 1972.
March 16, 1961: Victor-Stanislas Chartrand (UN), MLA for L'Assomption, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly.
March 17, 1937: By-election in Beauce; Joseph-Émile Perron (UN) is elected.
March 18, 1998: The Bloc pot obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
March 18, 1981: The Parti libertarien obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
March 18, 1960: The Legislative Assembly of Quebec adopts an act altering the limits of the ridings while increasing their number from 93 to 95.
March 18, 1947: Maurice Hartt (LIB), MLA for Montréal–Saint-Louis, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly because of his decision to quit for federal politics.
March 18, 1914: By-election in Trois-Rivières; Joseph-Adolphe Tessier (LIB) is elected.
March 18, 1892: Moïse Plante (CON), MLA for Beauharnois, dies in office.
March 19, 1988: Jacques Parizeau is elected by acclamation as Leader of the Parti québécois. He promises that the Party will make the promotion of sovereignty "before, during and after the elections".
March 19, 1975: Guy Leduc (LIB), MNA for Taillon, announces that he leaves the parliamentary group of the Parti libéral du Québec in order to sit as independent MNA.
March 19, 1972: Camil Samson (ind.), MNA for Rouyn-Noranda and former Leader of the Ralliement créditiste, is made vote by plebiscite as Leader of a new creditist parliamentary group in the National Assembly. The group, composed of Aurèle Audet (CS), MNA for Abitibi-Ouest, and Bernard Dumont (CS), MNA for Mégantic, will require to be recognized under the label of the "Ralliement créditiste du Québec enregistré" (Recorded Social Credit Rally) on March 21, which will be refused to it.
March 19, 1877: By-election in Kamouraska; Joseph Dupont (LIB) is elected.
March 20, 2006: Pauline Marois (PQ), MNA for Taillon and former Minister in the Lévesque, Johnson (Pierre Marc), Parizeau, Bouchard and Landry Cabinets, resigns as Member of the National Assembly.
March 20, 1985: The National Assembly adopts a motion concerning the recognition of the rights of the Autochthons, by which it recognizes the existence of the arboriginal nations as well as their right for autonomy within Quebec.
March 20, 1981: The Parti marxiste-léniniste (Québec) obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
March 20, 1965: (March 19-21) Holding of a plenary congress of the Union nationale, during which it adopts a political program for the first time and endows of new structures more democratic.
March 21, 1905: Simon-Napoléon Parent (LIB), Prime Minister of Quebec and MLA for St-Sauveur, resigns as Prime Minister because of a sling stemming from the parliamentary wing of his party.
March 21, 1895: By-election in Stanstead; Felix Michael Hackett (CON) is elected.
March 21, 1874: Thomas Sanders (CON), MLA for Huntingdon, dies in office.
March 21, 1873: By-election in the County of Québec; Pierre Garneau (CON) is elected by acclamation.
March 22, 2001: Bernard Landry (PQ), Prime Minister of Quebec and MNA for Verchères, announces the creation of the Commission sur le déséquilibre fiscal (Commission on fiscal imbalance), charged to study the fundamental causes of fiscal imbalance between the federal government and Quebec. Yves Séguin is appointed as chairman of the commission.
March 22, 1989: Founding Convention of the Parti égalité / Equality Party, gathering English-speaking liberal dissidents set against the Bill 178 of the Bourassa Cabinet (LIB) on the language of posting.
March 22, 1970: At the outcome of a Leadership Convention, Camil Samson is elected as Leader of the Ralliement créditiste.
March 23, 1942: By-elections in Montréal–Sainte-Anne, Montréal–Saint-Jacques, Richelieu-Verchères and Westmount-Saint-Georges; Thomas Guérin (LIB), Claude Jodoin (LIB), Joseph-Willie Robidoux (LIB) and George C. Marler (LIB) are elected.
March 23, 1905: Following the dismissal of Simon-Napoléon Parent (LIB) two days earlier, J. Lomer Gouin (LIB) is sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec.
March 24, 1886: By-election in Drummond et Arthabaska; Joseph-Éna Girouard (LIB) is elected.
March 25, 1814: Issuing of the Writs of the 8^th General Election to the House of Assembly of Lower Canada.
March 26, 1998: Jean J. Charest, then Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, announce his candidature as Leader of the Parti libéral du Québec.
March 26, 1921: Adrien Beaudry (LIB), MLA for Verchères, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as president of the Commission des services publics (Public Service Commission).
March 26, 1920: Georges-Isidore Delisle (LIB), MLA for St-Maurice, dies in office.
March 26, 1884: By-elections in Châteauguay, Deux-Montagnes, Jacques Cartier and Trois-Rivières; Joseph-Emery Robidoux (LIB), Benjamin Beauchamp (CON), Arthur Boyer (LIB) and H.-R.-Arthur Turcotte (LIB) are elected.
March 27, 1991: Deposit in the National Assembly of the report of the Committee Bélanger-Campeau (Committee on the political and constitutional future of Quebec), proposing a referendum by June or October, 1992, concerning the independence, for lack of "satisfactory" constitutional offers from the federal government.
March 27, 1980: Adoption of the new electoral map proposed by the Commission de la représentation électorale (Commission of the electoral representation). The number of ridings rises from 110 to 122.
March 27, 1884: Opening of the first session of the Legislative Assembly on the site of the current Hotel of the Parliament.
March 27, 1880: By-election in Chicoutimi-et-Saguenay; Joseph-Élisée Beaudet (CON) is elected by acclamation.
March 27, 1838: The British Governor John Colborne proclaims the "Acte pour établir des dispositions temporaires pour le gouvernement du Bas-Canada" (Act to establish temporary capacities for the government of Lower Canada), passed by the Parliament of Westminster on February 10, 1838, which abolishes formally the parliamentary institutions of Lower Canada (House of Assembly and Legislative Council) and replaces them by a special council until February 10, 1841.
March 28, 1929: J. Lomer Gouin (LIB), Prime Minister of Quebec from 1905 to 1920, dies at the age of 68, while holding the office of Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
March 28, 1922: Armand Boisseau (LIB), former MLA for St-Hyacinthe, is found guilty of electoral fraud by the Courts during the General Election of June 23, 1919. His election is canceled, but he had already resigned as MLA on February 8, 1922.
March 29, 2003: Five political parties lose the status of authorized political party, for lack of having presented at least ten candidates during the general election foreseen on April 14, 2003: the Équipe options, the Parti communiste du Québec, the Parti de la loi naturelle du Québec, the Parti démocrate du Québec and the Parti innovateur du Québec.
March 29, 1994: Gordon Atkinson (EP), MNA for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, announces that he leaves the parliamentary group of the Equality Party in order to sit as independent MNA.
March 29, 1977: The Leader of the Parti national populaire (People's National Party), Jerome Choquette (PNP), resigns as Leader of the party following his defeat in Outremont in the general election of November 15, 1976.Fabien Roy (PNP), MNA for Beauce-Sud, is appointed as leader of the Party.
March 29, 1872: Louis-Honoré Gosselin (CON), MLA for Rimouski, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly.
March 29, 1867: The assent is given, following its adoption by the Parliament of Westminster, to the British North America Act, which unites the colonies of Canada (Lower Canada and Upper Canada), New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in a federal union under the name of "Dominion of Canada".
March 30, 1978: The Parti des travailleurs du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
March 30, 1974: Gabriel Loubier resigns as Leader of the Union nationale. Maurice Bellemarre is appointed as interim Leader.
March 30, 1963: The Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale, founded in 1960, is constituted as a political party under the presidency of Guy Pouliot.
March 30, 1886: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (CON), Prime Minister of Quebec from 1882 to 1884, dies at the age of 48.
March 31, 1892: Joseph Bédard (CON), MLA for Richmond, is found guilty by the courts of electoral fraud during the General Election of June 17, 1890. His election is canceled, but Mr. Bédard had already been reelected during the General Election of March 8, 1892.
March 31, 1886: The votation held in Verchères during the General Election of December 2, 1881 is canceled by the courts because of "irregularities on the ballots". The election will be resumed on May 5, 1886.
March 31, 1876: The votation held in Huntingdon during the General Election of July 7, 1875 is canceled by the courts for reasons that remain unknown. The election will be resumed on April 24, 1876.
March 31, 1831: The assent is given to the "Acte pour permettre aux membres de la Chambre d'Assemblée de résigner dans certains cas, et pour autres objets" (Act to allow the members of the House of Assembly to resign in certain cases, and for other objects), which allows the Members of the house of Assembly of Lower Canada to resign from their office.

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