Union Nationale
political organization, Canada
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history of Canada
- In Canada: Quebec separatism
As leader of the Union Nationale party—a party he had helped to create—Duplessis’s first term in office ended when he lost the 1939 elections after challenging Ottawa’s right to intervene in provincial jurisdictions during wartime. Reelected in 1944, Duplessis refused to cooperate with most of the new social and…
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role of Duplessis
- In Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis
…a new nationalist party, the Union Nationale, which won the 1936 election. He became premier and attorney general. After questioning Canadian policy before World War II, he lost office in the 1939 election but was reelected in 1944.
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