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Action Laval
Action Laval is a political party active at the municipal level in Québec in the Laval (Québec), City of Laval. The party was founded by the former provincial deputy for LaFontaine, Jean-Claude Gobé in April 2013, in regard of the municipal elections of November 3, 2013, in the province of Quebec. Two city councilors were elected, placing the party second in the ballot and became the official opposition. Since December 2019, Action Laval has four city councilors : Aglaia Revelakis (Chomedey), Paolo Galati (Saint-Vincent-de-Paul), David De Cotis (Saint-Bruno) and Isabella Tassoni (Laval-des-Rapides). On June 30, 2021, Action Laval announced its new leader, which will be the candidate for mayoral in Laval, Sophie Trottier. Creation Action Laval was founded in April 2013 by Jean-Claude Gobé, an ex-member in the Quebec National Assembly for the provincial electoral district of LaFontaine from 1985 until 2003. At the November 2013 municipal elections, the party finished sec ...
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Sophie Trottier
Sophie is a feminine given name, another version of Sophia (given name), Sophia, from the Greek word for "wisdom". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224–1275), second wife and only Duchess consort of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier Born in 1600s and 1700s * Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729–1796), later Empress Catherine II of Russia * Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628–1685), Queen consort of Denmark-Norway * Sophie Blanchard (1778–1819), French balloonist * Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759–1828), second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia * Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères ( 1795–1840), English baroness * Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French mathematician * Sophie Piper (1757–1816), Swedish countess * Sophie Schröder (1781–1868), German actress * Sophie von La Roche (1730–1807), German author * ...
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Jean-Claude Gobé
Jean-Claude Gobé (born April 11, 1949) is a Quebec politician. He served as the member for LaFontaine in the Quebec National Assembly as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party from 1985 until 2003. He left the Liberals to sit as an Independent shortly before his term in the National Assembly ended. Until resigning in 2018, he was the leader of the Official Opposition in the City of Laval as head of Action Laval. Biography Gobé was born in Charleville, France and studied at the College Sainte-Jeanne D'Arc in Orléans and then at the Academy of Montpelier. He served in the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Navy in Fréjus from 1967 to 1971, before emigrating to Canada in 1972. After serving as a sales manager and then head of Renault Canada, he was director of Ademco and then of Comterm. He was managing director of Norma Rental from 1980 to 1985. Political career Gobé ran in the 1985 Quebec provincial election for the seat of LaFontaine against former Parti Québécois minister M ...
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Laval City Council
The Laval City Council is the governing body in the mayor–council government in the city of Laval, Quebec, Canada. It is composed of the mayor and 21 councillors. They are elected to four year terms with the next election scheduled for November 2025. Statutory meetings are held on the first Monday of each month. As of the municipal election, Mouvement Lavallois has a majority on the city council and the mayor's office. Two other parties are represented on council Action Laval at 5 seats and Parti Laval at 2 seats. Sectors Currently the city is divided into six sectors (''secteurs'' in French) which only ''approximately'' cover the territories of the former municipalities. They are: :Sector 1 * Duvernay * Saint François * ''Saint Vincent de Paul'' :Sector 2 * ''Laval des Rapides'' * ''Pont Viau'' * ''Renaud'' :Sector 3 * Chomedey :Sector 4 * ''Fabreville Ouest'' * Îles Laval * ''Laval Ouest'' * Laval sur le Lac * Sainte Dorothée :Sector 5 * ''Fabreville Est'' * ''Sainte ...
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Laval (Québec)
Laval is a city in Quebec, Canada. It is in the southwest of the province, north of Montreal. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third-largest city in the province after Montreal and Quebec City, and the thirteenth largest city in Canada, with a population of 443,192 in 2021. Laval is geographically separated from the mainland to the north by the Rivière des Mille Îles, and from the Island of Montreal to the south by the Rivière des Prairies. Laval occupies all of Île Jésus as well as the Îles Laval. Laval constitutes one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec, with a region code of 13, as well as a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) with geographical code 65. It also constitutes the judicial district of Laval. It is the smallest administrative region in the province by area. History The first European Settlers in Laval were Jesuits, who were granted a seigneury there in 1636. Agriculture first appeared ...
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Québec
Quebec is Canada's largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the French colony of ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was confederated with Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick in 1867. Until the early 1960s, the Catholic Church played a large role in the social and cultural institutions in Quebec. However, the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s to 1980s increased the role of the Government of Q ...
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LaFontaine
Lafontaine, French for "the fountain", may refer to: People * Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), French fabulist, one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century * De Lafontaine (1655–1738), French ballerina * Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine (1680–1745), German painter * Ludolph Lafontaine (1704–1774), German painter * August Lafontaine (1758–1831), German writer * Albert Millaud (1844–1892), French journalist and playwright, who wrote under various pseudonyms, including "Lafontaine" * Oskar Lafontaine (born 1943), German politician Places * Lafontaine, Ontario, Canada * Lafontaine, Quebec, Canada * LaFontaine, a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada * Lafontaine, Kansas, U.S. * La Fontaine, Indiana, U.S. Other uses * Lafontaine (electoral district), a former riding in Quebec, Canada * Lafontaine (surname) * Lafontaine Bellot, governor of Plaisance, Newfoundland from 1664 to 1667 * 5780 Lafontaine, a minor planet * Hotel LaFontaine, Huntingto ...
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Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ...
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Candidate
A candidate, or nominee, is a prospective recipient of an award or honor, or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position. For example, one can be a candidate for membership in a group (sociology), group or election to an official, office, in which case a Preselection, candidate selection occurs. "Nomination" is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to an office by a political party,''Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases,'' Volume 1, Edition 2, West Publishing Company, 1914p. 588 or the bestowing of an honor or award. This person is called a "nominee", though "nominee" is often used interchangeably with "candidate". A presumptive nominee is a person or organization whose nomination is considered inevitable or highly likely. The phenomenon of being a candidate in a race for either a party nomination or for electoral office is called "candidacy". The term "presumptive candidate" may be used to describe someone who is p ...
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Centre De Services Scolaire De Laval
The Centre de services scolaire de Laval (, CSSDL) is a French-language school service centre in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is headquartered in Laval. As of 2011, the board of the predecessor, ''Commission scolaire de Laval'', managed fifty-two primary schools, fourteen secondary schools, eight professional development centres, and three adult education centres in Laval. Like all school boards in Quebec, the commission is overseen by a board of elected trustees. Schools Secondary schools * ''École secondaire Alphonse-Desjardins'' * '' École secondaire Curé-Antoine-Labelle'' * '' École secondaire De la Croisée'' * '' École secondaire De la Mosaïque'' * ''École secondaire Georges-Vanier'' * ''École secondaire Horizon Jeunesse'' * ''École secondaire Jean-Piaget'' * ''École secondaire L'Odyssée-des-Jeunes'' * ''École secondaire Leblanc'' * ''École secondaire Mont-de-La Salle'' * ''École secondaire Poly-Jeunesse'' * ''École secondaire Saint-Martin'' * ''École ...
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Politics Of Quebec
The politics of Quebec are centred on a provincial government resembling that of the other Canadian provinces, namely a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. The capital of Quebec is Quebec City, where the Lieutenant Governor, Premier, the legislature, and cabinet reside. The legislature — the Parliament of Quebec — is unicameral, consisting of the Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly, which has 125 members. Government is conducted based on the Westminster model. Political system The British-type parliamentarism based on the Westminster system was introduced in the province of Lower Canada in 1791. The diagram at right represents the political system of Québec since the 1968 reform. Prior to this reform, the Parliament of Québec was bicameral. Lieutenant Governor * asks the leader of the majority party to form a government in which he will serve as Premier * enacts the laws adopted by the National Assembly * has the power to veto. Premier * a ...
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Political Parties Established In 2013
Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. Politics may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and non-violent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but the word often also carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or in a limited way, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external f ...
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