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    Professional Orders

    Over the past 50 years, Québec has developed a professional system that has gradually consolidated its most important orders according to the size of their memberships and the nature of the their acts, which are often exclusive.

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    Progressive Conservative Party

    See CONSERVATIVE PARTY.

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    Progressive Party

     The Progressive Party was formed in 1920 when Ontario and prairie farmers on the Canadian Council of Agriculture united with dissident Liberals led by Thomas CRERAR, who resigned from the federal Cabinet in 1919 opposing high tariffs.

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    Provincial Organizations Research

    Research, Provincial Organizations All provinces except Newfoundland and PEI have provincial research organizations functioning to promote economic development through the application of modern TECHNOLOGY to regional INDUSTRY.

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    Public Interest Advocacy Centre

    The Public Interest Advocacy Centre, a non-profit Ottawa based organization, was founded in 1976. PIAC is primarily concerned with the delivery of important public utilities and services to Canadian consumers and, in particular, vulnerable consumers.

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    Public-Service Unions

    The public sector is highly unionized in Canada. Approximately 80% of those public-sector employees eligible for collective bargaining are covered by collective agreements, compared with only 25% in the private sector.

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    Public Services and Procurement Canada

    Public Services and Procurement Canada (formerly Public Works Canada) has been the builder and custodian of the federal government's real property assets since before Confederation. Originally created in 1841, it is also one of the largest departments, assuming the role of the federal government's chief purchasing agent.

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    Quebec Bar

    Lawyers practiced their profession in Québec well before the constitution of the Bar of Lower-Canada by a law passed on May 30, 1849 (the Upper-Canada Bar had obtained its charter in 1797).

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    Quebec Biker War (1994–2002)

    The Quebec Biker War was an almost decade-long territorial conflict between two outlaw motorcycle gangs in Quebec: the Hells Angels and the Rock Machine. The war centred on control over the narcotics trade in Quebec. It was also driven by intense rivalries and deep-seated animosities between major figures in Quebec’s criminal underworld. (See Organized Crime.) The conflict involved over 80 bombings, some 130 cases of arson and 20 disappearances. More than 160 people were killed and over 200 were injured, including many innocent bystanders.

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    Reconstruction Party of Canada

    The Reconstruction Party of Canada was a Canadian political party that was active during the mid-1930s. It was mainly a federal party that contested the 1935 election. It also had a short-lived Alberta wing that contested the 1935 Alberta election. It was one of four new political parties created in Canada during the Great Depression. (The others were the Social Credit Party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and Quebec’s Union Nationale). The right-wing party was isolationist, favoured workers’ rights and opposed the power of big business. It was founded by longtime Conservative Party MP and Cabinet minister Henry Herbert Stevens, who was known for his anti-immigrant views. The party won only one seat in 1935 — the Kootenay East riding that Stevens had held for years. The party was dissolved when Stevens rejoined the Conservatives in 1938.

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    Reform Party of Canada

    The Reform Party was a right-wing, populist, western political protest movement that grew to become the official opposition in Parliament in 1997. Reform played a role in the creation of the Canadian Alliance, as well as the demise of the federal Progressive Conservative Party — and the eventual merger of those two groups into today's Conservative Party.

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    Regina Manifesto

    The Regina Manifesto was the founding policy document of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). Written in 1933, the 14-point policy statement called for eradicating capitalism and adopting socialist economic and social policies in a democratic state.

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    Rhinoceros Party

    The Rhinoceros Party was founded in 1963 by a group of humorists led by Montreal doctor Jacques Ferron to poke fun at federal election campaigns. First fielding candidates for 1964 by-elections, it participated in every subsequent general election until 1985. Eighty-nine candidates (across Canada) represented the party in the federal election of 1984; it received 99,207 votes, 0.790% of the total votes cast. In May 1985, shortly after the death of Ferron, the party was officially dissolved.

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    Saskatchewan Party

    The Saskatchewan Party is a provincial political party formed in 1997 by a coalition of Liberals and Progressive Conservatives seeking to offer a viable governing alternative to the New Democratic Party (NDP). Since 2007, the Saskatchewan Party has won three straight elections, holding power in the province under leader and Premier Brad Wall. In 2018, Wall stepped down and was replaced as premier and party leader by Scott Moe, who served in Wall’s executive council from 2014 to 2017.

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    Socialist Party of Canada

    Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) emerged in 1904 when the Socialist Party of British Columbia, a group of Marxists influential in BC mining camps and among BC trade unionists, merged with the Canadian Socialist League. By 1910 it had spread from coast to coast.

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