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Jean-Jacques Bertrand, politician, premier of Québec 1968-70 (b at Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Qué 20 June 1916; d at Montréal 22 Feb 1973). Elected UNION NATIONALE member for Missisquoi in 1948, and re-elected several times between 1952 and 1970, he was always seen as a leader of the party's progressive wing. Minister of resources 1954-58, and of lands and forests 1958-60, he lost to Daniel JOHNSON in his bid for the party's leadership in 1961 after the party's defeat the year before.
When his party returned to power in 1966, he became minister of education and was largely responsible for continuing the Liberals' educational reforms. Upon Johnson's death in 1968, Bertrand was chosen party leader, and so became premier. He had to handle the first symptoms of the language crisis - particularly the school issue in St-Léonard, battleground for supporters and opponents of French schools - proposing BILL 63, which guaranteed parents' right to choose their children's schools. An ardent nationalist and defender of Québec rights, he was one of the main architects of Québec's demands for constitutional reform. His party lost the 1970 election to the Liberal Party of Robert BOURASSA. He continued as leader of the Opposition until 1971.
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