The
National Assembly of Québec (French:
Assemblée nationale du Québec)
is the legislative body of the Province
of Quebec, Canada. It operates in a fashion
similar to that of other British-style
parliamentary systems. Since the abolition
in 1968 of the Legislative Council (French:
Conseil législatif), hitherto the
upper house of the Quebec Parliament,
the lower house known as National Assembly
of Quebec has had exclusive power to enact
laws in the provincial jurisdictions defined
in the Constitution of Canada. The current
President of the National Assembly of
Quebec is Liberal Member of the National
Assembly (MNA) Michel Bissonnet.
The
Legislative Assembly was created in Lower
Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791.
It was abolished from 1841 to 1867 under
the 1840 Act of Union which merged Upper
Canada and Lower Canada into a single
colony named the Province of Canada. The
1867 British North America Act, which
created the Canadian confederation, split
the Province of Canada into the provinces
of Quebec and Ontario. The Legislative
Assembly of Lower Canada was thus restored
as the Legislative Assembly of the Province
of Quebec. The original Quebec legislature
was bicameral, consisting of the Legislative
Council and the Legislative Assembly.
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