Parti durable du Québec
Sustainable Development Party Parti durable du Québec | |
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Leader | Sebastien Girard |
Founded | 2008 |
Dissolved | 2009 |
Headquarters | 1114, rue Anne-Hébert Saint-Félicien (Québec) G8K 1H1 |
Ideology | regionalism, centrism, sustainable development |
Website | |
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The Parti durable du Québec (English: Sustainable Development Party) is a political party in Quebec that advocates for regionalism, centrism, and sustainable development.[1]
According to Quebecpolitique.com,[2] the party "was founded in 2008. Its mission is to "defend the interests of the regional population" of (the) Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean" region.[3]
Election 2008
[edit]In the 2008 election, party leader Sebastien Girard ran as the party's only candidate in the provincial riding of Roberval. He finished in fifth place with 571 votes (2.1%), tying with the candidate for Québec Solidaire.
Dissolution
[edit]In February 2010, Quebec's Chief Electoral Officer released a statement saying that the party had lost its official status as an authorised political party as of November 2009.[4]
Platform
[edit]On the party website, Girard laid out the party's platform:[5]
- La Charte du Bois (The Timber Charter):
- Due to the crisis in the forestry sector in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, the party suggests that a Timber Charter be introduced in the National Assembly. This charter would contain two different agendas:
- 1. Wood products would be labelled, so that they can be traced, advocating local consumption of wood with a local origin.
- 2. More use of Quebec wood in the construction of public buildings in Quebec.
- Due to the crisis in the forestry sector in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, the party suggests that a Timber Charter be introduced in the National Assembly. This charter would contain two different agendas:
- Entrepreneurship and Youth Migration
- To combat migration and brain drain from the Saguenay region, the party promised:
- A work-entrepreneurship program, in which entrepreneurs would spend part of the time working and the other part developing their idea or business plan.
- A student-entrepreneurship program, which would give youth resources for their entrepreneurial ideas.
- A regional mentoring program, to help foster the two above programs.
- To combat migration and brain drain from the Saguenay region, the party promised:
- Energy policy
- Education
- More investment in alternative forms of education.
- More assessment of students and more resources for teachers
- Food
- The development of a "Charter of Agricultural Soils"
- Developing a visibility program for regional products
- Sustainable tourism
- Investment in a sustainable tourist sector in the Saugenay region
- Opening Internet access to all citizens in the region, opening tourist-based businesses to the world
- Developing a tourist cooperative for the Saugenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region.
- Invest in a circuit of hostels
- Establishing festivals and activities for the Lac-Saint-Jean region.
- Making tourist information available in different languages
- Establishing a rail tour of the area
- Investment in a sustainable tourist sector in the Saugenay region
- First Nations
- Collaboration with the local Innu community to establish a research centre.
- Promoting the education of Native Spirituality on reserves and encouraging discussion in public schools
- Establishing an ethnotourist market in the region.
- Sustainable environment
- Regulate the burning of wood
- Accelerate development of electric vehicles
- Nationalize Quebec water
- Health
- Recognize and regulate alternative medicines
- Give more power to graduate nurses
- Relax admission to those looking at medical school
References
[edit]- ^ "Parti durable du Québec". Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-11-13. Parti Durable Website (in French)
- ^ "Quebecpolitique.com". Archived from the original on 2009-06-06. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ http://www.quebecpolitique.com/partis-politiques/les-partis/mouvement-equite-au-quebec/ Archived 2009-06-06 at the Wayback Machine QuebecPolitique.com (in French)
- ^ http://www.quebecpolitique.com/2010/02/disparition-du-parti-durable-du-quebec/ Archived 2012-09-07 at archive.today QuebecPolitique.com: Disparition du Parti durable du Québec (Disappearance of the Parti durable du Quebec) (in French)
- ^ http://www.partidurable.org/documents/plateforme%20Parti%20durable%20.pdf[permanent dead link] Party Platform (in French)