JOHNSON, Daniel (père)
(1915-1968)
Né à Danville, le 9 avril 1915, fils de Francis Johnson, journalier, et de Marie-Adéline Daniel.
A étudié à l'école paroissiale de Danville, au séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe et à l'université de Montréal. Fit sa cléricature auprès de Me Henri Crépeau. Admis au barreau de la province de Québec le 20 juillet 1940.
Pierre-Marc Johnson
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Tuesday 30 January 2007 UN Convention to Desertification in Global Sustainable Development Goverance by Pierre Marc Johnson
Saturday Jul 7, 2007 Johnson commission doing its job
Barely four months ago, the Johnson commission into the de la Concorde Blvd. overpass collapse was widely seen as merely a politically-motivated exercise - some even predicted a whitewash - that would provide little in the way of real information.
Wed #974 Nov 1st, 2000 Pierre Marc Johnson & son Marc Olivier; intro Peter Holt Dunn, Chair Holdun; Michael Fox BBC World news intro by Dr. Rick Schultz John Ciaccia, Michael Nicolia; Peter Gummer; Micheal Judson; Jonathan Jonas brought John Chapman Wilkinson ..GLOBALIZATION Holly Jonas..REFERENDA ..Neil and Catharine McKenty's book ..WESTMOUNT WEB COMMUNICATIONS new site.
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Friday 2 June 2000 Jean Who? Charest's problem might be that Quebecers know him too well
MICHEL DAVID Le Soleil ...Delegates to next October's congress will probably take note of this and give him their confidence, but he is certainly the first to know that this will not be the end of his troubles. In the spring of 1997, 83 per cent of delegates renewed their confidence in Daniel Johnson. He, nevertheless, had to resign less than a year later.
Do see our page on Jean Charest
Thursday 1 June 2000 Losing conditions
People are down on Charest, but if he starts moving the numbers, all will be forgiven DON MACPHERSON ... in the Economist about Daniel Johnson quoted one unnamed
Quebec radio talk-show host saying that "Mr. Bouchard, who is
one-legged, would beat Mr. Johnson in any contest, even the
100-metre sprint." Referring to Johnson's supposed absence during the
blackout caused by the recent ice storm, a caption on a photo of him
read: "No electricity here." A couple of weeks later, Johnson decided he
had had enough, and announced he was getting out of politics.
The rap against Johnson then is similar to the one against his successor
now: he too often seemed invisible, and did not seem able to do what
Liberals want their leaders to do, which is, in the words of Oakland
Raiders owner Al Davis, just win, baby.
As was the case with Johnson, the fiercest criticism of Charest comes
from the strongest supporters of the Liberal Party, the people who are
most disappointed by him.
For what it's worth, 57 per cent of Quebecers and 37 per cent of Liberal
voters said in a poll commissioned by L'Actualite that if the Liberals
want to win the next election, they should immediately seek a new
leader to replace Charest. The poll was conducted by Sondagem April
24-May 4.
Saturday 6 May 2000 95 per cent - plus 1
Bouchard is obsessed with vote on his leadership and he has to win big DON MACPHERSON ...To illustrate how little the results of such votes really matter once the
winner of the media-room pool has collected her winnings, the Liberals
announced a score of 80.3 per cent for Daniel Johnson, topping
Bouchard by four points, at their convention four months after the PQ's.
And only a year later, Johnson was out as their leader.
...Jean Chretien, topped 90 per cent in his last leadership review.
Bouchard's other nemesis, Jacques Parizeau, got 92 per cent in his only
one.
And Parizeau wasn't premier at the time, and Chretien didn't campaign
the way Bouchard has. Bouchard shouldn't be happy with anything less
than 95 per cent - plus one.
8 April 2000 Anglo role in Quiet Revolution is overlooked JACK JEDWAB ...1966 provincial election, the
new premier, Daniel Johnson, stated that his party had been returned to
power in spite of the anglophone and Jewish vote. He added that the
anglophone electorate's overwhelming rejection of the UN concealed the
real size of his party's majority among the province's predominantly
francophone constituents.
Following the election, Johnson suggested that his unpopularity among
anglophones might be remedied by creating a new newspaper in
Montreal. (saved)
The Johnson Family
Johnson is a member of Quebec's pre-eminent political family. They celebrate Daniel Johnson Sr.'s upset Union Nationale victory over the Liberals in 1966; from left are 21-year-old Daniel Jr., Diane, Daniel Sr., his wife, Reine, Marie and Pierre Marc.
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High and low points of Daniel Johnson's political career: Johnson and the man most often touted to succeed him, Jean Charest, acknowledge cheers at No-side victory celebrations after the October 1995 referendum vote.
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Daniel congratulates Pierre Marc, then his political rival, after he was sworn in as premier in October 1985.
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Johnson looked down at his speech notes yesterday after he announced he would step down as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.
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Novice politician Daniel Johnson sported slightly longer hair in 1980.
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His father was Daniel Johnson Sr., who put the family
name on the political map as a devoted servitor in Maurice
Duplessis's postwar administrations in a variety of cabinet
posts. He became premier of Quebec in 1966 in one of the
most stunning electoral upsets in Quebec history when he
led a Union Nationale revival that defeated Jean Lesage's
vaunted "equipe de tonnere," which had brought off the
Quiet Revolution.
Johnson Sr.'s slogan, "Equality or independence," has been
enshrined in Quebec nationalist lore as one of the venerable
landmarks on the road to sovereignty, and his sudden death
in office in 1968 at the height of his power and popularity
served to crystallize his legend.
The second Johnson to become premier would be the
younger and more politically precocious of his two sons,
Pierre Marc, who took up the cause of
sovereignty-association. Among Daniel Jr.'s persistent
problems was that he suffered in comparisons with his
brother's political talents and public appeal.
Pierre Marc was also the first of the Johnson sons to be
elected, when he entered the National Assembly in the 1976
PQ sweep. He served in Rene Levesque's cabinet, and
became premier in 1985 after taking over from Levesque in
a messy succession at a time when the Parti Quebecois was
sorely divided over its independence strategy and exhausted
by two terms in office.
Daniel Jr. turned to business
as his first career choice. After law school at the Universite
de Montreal, he studied toward a doctorate in business law
at London's University College, followed by a two-year
stint at Harvard Business School, the corporate world's
intellectual mecca.
On his return to Quebec, he settled comfortably into the
senior executive ranks at Power Corp., where he served for
close to a decade as legal secretary, then vice-president, of
French Canada's mightiest business empire before
succumbing to the lure of politics.
- Thursday 6 August 1998
Just for Laughs restructuring Lays off 20 employees despite record attendance of 1.2 million by BRENDAN KELLY (saved)
- Thursday 5 March 1998 Poll news not all good for Charest ...Pierre Trudeau managed to pull it off back in 1968, but everyone else who has tried since then to repeat his exploit
at either the federal or Quebec level has failed; the names
John Turner, Kim Campbell, Pierre Marc Johnson and, for
that matter, Daniel Johnson leap to mind.
- Wednesday 13 May 1998 Johnson shows emotion in goodbye to political life CAMPBELL CLARK (saved)
- Thursday 5 March 1998 Poll news not all good for Charest ...Pierre Trudeau managed to pull it off back in 1968, but everyone else who has tried since then to repeat his exploit
at either the federal or Quebec level has failed; the names
John Turner, Kim Campbell, Pierre Marc Johnson and, for
that matter, Daniel Johnson leap to mind.
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Friday 20 March 1998
A masterstroke for Johnson The Liberal leader has proved much smarter
than anyone gave him credit for. by L. IAN MACDONALD ...There has always been an unspoken sense about him, ashere has always been an unspoken sense about him, as
with his brother Pierre Marc, that neither intended to die in
office, as their father did. Pierre Marc Johnson walked
away from the PQ leadership in 1987 because he could not
rally the party behind his moderate "affirmationist" banner,
and because he could no longer endure the backroom
intrigues of Jacques Parizeau and the nationalist hard-liners.
Pierre Marc Johnson went on to build a prosperous
environmental-law practice and, unlike Parizeau, has had
the decency to remain out of the political limelight.
Daniel Johnson's resignation was an equally decisive
gesture,...(saved)
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Me Simon Potter on A Time for all good Federalists ….
- John CIACCIA
The Liberals
under Daniel Johnson, vs his successor, Jean
Charest, won 47 seats and 44.40 per cent of the popular vote.
(Charest’s Liberals won 48 seats and 43.7 per cent of the popular
vote.) Fourteen months later the PQ called a referendum on
sovereignty, which lost by a whisker. Compare Bouchard and
Charest’s performance with their predecessors’ and prepare a class
debate on one of the following questions. Did Bouchard perform
better than Parizeau? Did Charest perform better than Johnson? Is a
winning referendum less of a possibility today than it was in 1994?
Danial Johnson
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8 April 2000 Quebec needs its own constitution JOSEE LEGAULT... By the way, Quebec already has its own informal constitution, which
predates the Canadian one by two centuries. What we lack is a formal,
modern, written constitution. That's why premier Jean Lesage created a
committee on the constitution in 1963, but to no avail. Premier Daniel
Johnson Sr. expressed the desire to give Quebec its own constitution,
but lacked the time to do it. In May 1998, Jacques Parizeau suggested
we should write the constitution of a sovereign Quebec before another
referendum is held, but his suggestion fell on deaf ears.
recherche.gouv.qc Find in Quebéc Gov.
Pierre Marc Johnson, Andre Beaulieu
Daniel Johnson hugged his wife, Suzanne Marcil, after announcing his decision to quit as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party. Johnson told a press conference he resigned for personal and political reasons.
