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The latest nightly tracking conducted by Nanos Research for CTV and The Globe and Mail shows the Liberals have hit an election-high level of support among voters, largely at the expense of the NDP. The nightly tracking is based on a rolling average of 1,200 voters polled on October 11, 13 and 14, 2015. The numbers released Oct. 15 show: . the Liberals at 37.1 per cent support . the Conservatives at 29.4 per cent support . the NDP at 23.7 per cent support . the Green Party at 4.3 percent support . the Bloc Quebecois at 5 per cent...

Excerpt - The House of Commons has overwhelmingly passed a motion recognizing Québécois as a nation within Canada. Conservatives, most Liberal MPs, the NDP and the Bloc voted 266 to 16 in support of the controversial motion, which earlier in the day had prompted the resignation of Michael Chong as intergovernmental affairs minister. Fifteen Liberal MPs voted against the motion, along with Independant MP Garth Turner. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had introduced the surprise motion on Nov. 22, raising the ante on a Bloc Québécois motion that sought to declare Quebecers a nation without reference to Canada. The motion states:...

TORONTO -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper stunned Parliament on Wednesday by introducing a motion recognizing the French-speaking province of Quebec as a nation within Canada — a moved aimed at pre-empting Quebec's separatist party which intends to do the same. The Bloc Quebecois said it intends to introduce a motion Thursday that states Quebec is a nation. But the wording of that motion apparently does not include the words "within Canada," leaving federalists to worry it could be misinterpreted. The flap has reignited passions over whether the French-speaking province should be given independence. Quebecers have twice voted down referendums seeking...

Bloc Quebecois MP killed in traffic accident Ross Marowits The Canadian Press Monday August 28, 2006 MONTREAL -- The Bloc Quebecois has lost one of the MPs who was swept to office 13 years ago when the sovereigntist party became Official Opposition under Lucien Bouchard. Benoit Sauvageau, 42, was killed Monday in a traffic accident in his Montreal-area riding when his vehicle hit a tow truck on the side of the road. CREDIT: House of Commons photo Benoît Sauvageau represents the Repentigny constituency. Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe praised Sauvageau as a hard working and determined MP who knew everyone...

The Israeli ambassador is taking Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe to task for participating in a pro-Hezbollah rally. Alan Baker has written a sharply worded letter to Duceppe, saying the Aug. 6 march in Montreal was a glorification of Hezbollah, which Canada considers to be a terrorist group. Liberal MP Denis Coderre also marched, but Baker aimed his complaint at Duceppe, a party leader. The ambassador says he has no problem with demonstrations or with people expressing their opinions, but he says glorifying Hezbollah is wrong.

Conservatives lead separatists: poll Reuters - Canada Tue May 2, 2006 OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Conservatives are rapidly gaining support in Quebec and are now more popular than the province's separatist party, according to a new poll published on Tuesday. The CROP poll for La Presse put the Conservatives at 34 percent in Quebec, up from the 25 percent the party won during the January 23 election. The separatist Bloc Quebecois, which a few months ago was flirting with 50 percent backing, dropped to 31 percent from 42 percent on January 23. The Conservatives, led by Stephen Harper, unexpectedly...

PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS It’s a wrap: Lessons from the merger debate and other hazards By GLENN WANAMAKER The municipal demerger referendums on Sunday mark the beginning, not the end of the process of defining local governments. In Montreal, Quebec City, the Magdalen Islands, Gatineau, Cookshire-Eaton, and Longueuil, where some communities voted to demerge, and in Sherbrooke, Magog, Sutton, and Lévis, where residents decided to keep their merged cities intact, there is, in either case, a great deal of repair work to be done. The old PQ government defied public opinion and forced mergers on an unwilling population. It created the same...

OTTAWA (CP) - A Bloc Quebecois MP who declared in the Commons that he's not a Canadian was invited by the prime minister Thursday to leave Parliament and reflect on who pays his salary. The exchange was a by-product of a Bloc motion that would recognize Quebec as a nation. Yves Rocheleau, the MP for Trois-Rivieres, announced during the daily question period that he considers himself a Quebecer first and last and is not a Canadian. Prime Minister Jean Chretien was quick to respond. "I think the member for Trois Rivieres should withdraw from this chamber because he's affirmed he's...