Jean Charest
Jean Charest
Jean James Charest, PCwas the 29th Premier of Quebec, from 2003 to 2012. He lost the provincial election held September 4, 2012, and resigned as Premier on September 19. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from June 25, 1993, until November 4, 1993. Charest was the leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1993 to 1998, and was the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party from 1998 to 2012. On September 5, 2012, Jean Charest...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 June 1958
CountryCanada
Jean Charest quotes about
It is a very important choice we are making together. It's either an agenda for separation or an agenda for affirmation,
It will be the first time that a premier from Quebec will go there,
It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,
I'm ready to open up the riding of Ste-Marie-St-Jacques and to offer no opposition.
Rather, what has been a threat to national unity is those who think that in Canada it should be one size fits all.
The program is more generous that what the federal program used to be, and it is very, very good news for parents and for young families,
We're going to carefully prepare this mission. It's not easy to go to a country like India where we don't have a presence.
We're not anticipating that scenario. We're negotiating right now, and we want to negotiate in good faith,
From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.
You can't go east and west at the same time.
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.
If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.
We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.