22-422: Maltais is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Agnès Maltais (1956-), Canadian politician André Maltais (1948-), Canadian politician Dominique Maltais 1980-), Canadian snowboarder Steve Maltais (1969-), Canadian ice hockey player Valérie Maltais (1990-), Canadian ice skater [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
44-611: A Legislature shall be held on the first Monday of October of the fourth calendar year following the year that includes the last day of the previous Legislature", setting the date for October 1, 2018. However, the Chief Electoral Officer could have changed the election date in the event of a natural disaster. Furthermore, the Lieutenant Governor could have called an election sooner should the Premier have requested one, or in
66-456: A century that had not been fought on the issue of whether Quebec should stay in Canada. The PQ had promised not to hold another referendum on sovereignty until 2022 at the earliest had it won. The CAQ’s landslide victory was, in part, surprising due to the close outcome that was projected by opinion polls during the campaigning period. Although polls estimated a difference of approximately 2% between
88-471: A reliable indicator of voting choice was replaced by other matters such as identity, immigration, redistribution, and the environment. Research indicates that the polls may have been misled by this change in focus combined with last-minute moves toward the CAQ and the tendency of those who did not disclose their vote to disproportionately vote for the same party. The topic of identity appeared extremely important and
110-589: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Agn%C3%A8s Maltais Agnès Maltais (born November 7, 1956) is a Canadian politician from Quebec . She was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Taschereau in the Quebec City region. She represented the Parti Québécois . Maltais mostly worked in the theatrical sector being a development agent for Video-Femmes and
132-799: The Minister of Culture and Communications from 1998 to 2001. She was then named the Delegate Minister of Health, Social Services and Youth protection and Delegate Minister of Employment. Re-elected in 2003 , she was the President of the Opposition Caucus . After 9 years in Opposition, the PQ formed a slim minority government after the 2012 election . Maltais immediately entered Cabinet as Minister of Labour, Employment, and Social Solidarity and Minister responsible for
154-537: The National Assembly of Quebec . The election saw a landslide victory for the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) led by François Legault , which won 74 of 125 seats, giving the party a majority and unseating the Quebec Liberal Party . The Liberals became the official opposition with 31 seats. This election was the first won by the CAQ, which had previously been the third party in the legislature. It
176-410: The surname Maltais . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maltais&oldid=873911363 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
198-467: The National Assembly, one died in office and 32 announced that they will not seek re-election including one whose riding was dissolved, and one who got fired. The latter comprise the following: At the end of his term, Gendron, Dean of the National Assembly, will have served for 41 years and 10 months, representing Abitibi-Ouest for 11 terms. The election was believed to be the first in almost half
220-559: The PLQ and the CAQ in the days leading up to the election, the results showed a 12.6% gap in voting. Studies suggest that this outcome is the result of an ongoing reconfiguration in Quebec’s electoral system that is shifting from a two-party to a multi-party system, as the vote share for the QLP and the PQ had been on the decline since 2007. Additionally, the question of sovereignty, which had previously been
242-501: The PQ was likely finished in its present form, and would have to merge with another sovereigntist party to avoid fading into irrelevance. The election was viewed as the Liberals' worst defeat since the 1976 election . While the party more than held its own in Montreal (where it won 19 out of 27 seats) and Laval (where it retained all but one seat), it only won seven seats elsewhere. This
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#1733092259871264-622: The Parti Québécois each won 10 seats. This is the second election in a row in which a government has been defeated after only one term. The CAQ formed government for the first time, mainly by dominating its traditional heartlands of Capitale-Nationale , Chaudière-Appalaches and Centre-du-Québec , while winning sweeps or near-sweeps in Mauricie , Estrie , Lanaudière , Montérégie , the Laurentides and northern Quebec. Many of their gains came at
286-749: The director of the Periscope and the la Bordée theaters. She was also a member of the Conseil québécois de théâtre. She was a political activist since 1976 when she obtained a diploma at the Cégep de Sainte-Foy . She was a spokesperson for the YES committee in the 1995 referendum and was involved in the organization of the Fête Nationale concerts and shows in 1991 and 1995. Maltais was first elected in Taschereau in 1998 and became
308-455: The entire Greater Montreal area. It was easily the PQ's worst showing in a provincial election in 45 years. For the second election in a row, its leader was unseated in his own riding. According to a postmortem by The Globe and Mail , the PQ was so decisively beaten that there were already questions about whether it could survive. Echoing this, Christian Bourque of Montreal-based pollster Léger Marketing told The Guardian that he believed
330-428: The event the government had been dissolved by a motion of no confidence . The Commission de la représentation électorale performed a redistribution in 2017, which maintained the number of seats in the National Assembly at 125 for the next general election, making the following alterations: As of September 5, 2018, a total of 45 MNAs elected in 2014 will not run in the 2018 election, of whom 12 resigned from
352-524: The expense of the PQ. The CAQ took a number of seats that had been in PQ hands for four decades or more, in some cases by landslide margins. It did, however, win only two seats in Montreal . The Parti Québécois came up two seats short of official status in the legislature. Notably, it was completely shut out in Montreal for the first time in decades; indeed, it won only one seat ( Marie-Victorin in Longueuil) in
374-480: The first openly lesbian member of the National Assembly, when she came out to an audience at Laval University . In 2006, she participated in the International Conference on LGBT Human Rights . 2018 Quebec general election Philippe Couillard Liberal François Legault Coalition Avenir Québec The 2018 Quebec general election was held on October 1, 2018, to elect members to
396-553: The inner-city riding of Taschereau in Quebec City. While the riding had been a safe seat for the PQ, it has become much more marginal in recent years as the PQ has become increasingly less and less competitive in the Capital Region. In 2014 , Maltais only held onto the riding by 400 votes over her Liberal challenger and hers was the only PQ held seat in the region. She did not run for re-election in 2018 . In 2003, Ms. Maltais became
418-604: The status of women. In this portfolio, she presided over controversial changes to the social assistance system in Quebec, that put the PQ government in conflict with some anti-poverty groups. Maltais was also critical of changes to the EI system announced by the federal Conservative government in Ottawa. Long identified with the left-wing of the Parti Quebecois, Maltais has been elected 6 times in
440-458: Was also the first since 1966 that had been won by a party other than the Liberals or Parti Québécois . In Quebec the Liberal Party had held power since 2003, save for a period of less than two years between 2012 and 2014. The National Assembly has had a fixed four-year term since passing a fixed election date law in 2013. The law stipulates that "the general election following the end of
462-569: Was mobilized throughout individuals’ participation with the election campaigns. These findings suggest that the CAQ’s shocking victory was the result of longstanding trends toward a multi-party system and a diversified agenda of topics which were not accurately predicted by the polls. Cristina Roos (Green) The CAQ went into the election as the third party in the legislature, but won a decisive victory with 74 seats, exceeding all published opinion polling. The Liberals won 31 seats, while Québec solidaire and
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#1733092259871484-411: Was the first election in which Québec Solidaire won seats outside Montreal, taking one seat from the PQ and three from the Liberals. The CAQ won 37.4 percent of the popular vote, a smaller vote share than the Liberals' 41 percent in 2014 and the lowest vote share on record for a party winning a majority government. However, due to the nature of the first-past-the-post system, which awards power solely on
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