https://freerepublic.com/tag/minoritygovernment/ en-us Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:29:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691626/posts 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... CP via National Post - Canada https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691626/posts#comment Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:29:17 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384850/posts Canada's Liberal Party, which since the 1970s has both harbored in its upper echelons and implanted in the federal bureaucracy a virulent anti-American bias, is in deep political trouble and could be driven from office before summer. The cause is as old as the country itself – graft and corruption in Quebec – the same affliction that defeated Canada's first government soon after the country was confederated in 1867 and has periodically beset its governments ever since. But this time the amounts involved are astronomically bigger and the misappropriation of public money far more blatant. The current case goes back... Worldnetdaily.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384850/posts#comment Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:37:32 GMT