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Article: Henri Bourassa's career in the Quebec Legislative Assembly.
- Article from:
- Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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Henri Bourassa's career as a Quebec legislator was as brief as it was spectacular. Elected in 1908, he sat for only four sessions and withdrew from parliamentary life in 1912. In the eyes of his contemporaries, however, those four years were a major episode in the political life of French Canada. He had an acute sense of certain problems still current in political life today, he understood the mainsprings of Quebecers' existence as a nation, yet he continued to cling to certain outdated ideological notions. Henri Bourassa remains a pivotal figure in Quebec's political and intellectual history. His name resounds like a clarion call, and he has stood as an example for ...